Soundtrack reviews of Cris Velasco’s Assassins Creed Unity: Dead Kings (Ubisoft), Will Bates’ Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Lakeshore), John Frizzell’s The Loft (Varese Sarabande), Wolfram de Marco’s Loft (MovieScore Media), and Nuno malo’s LUV (Milan).
Switching gears from more percussive electronic fusion scores, the latest album from the Assassin’s Creed Unity video game franchise features a more intimate work by Cris Velasco, featuring a smaller all-orchestra design with somewhat stealthy homages to Bernard Herrmann…
Will Bates’ score for the recent HBO documentary on Scientology is fairly low-key, seemingly allowing the weird details of L. Ron Hubbard’s quack religion – its founding, its controversies, and its litigious behaviour towards any criticism – to govern the narrative…
Bart De Pauw’s screenplay has been adapted three times for the big screen (2008, 2010 and 2014), allowing three composers to tackle the story of a whodunnit involving a group of men who discover a cadaver in a rented loft, and for the 2014 U.S. remake…
Wolfram de Marco’s score for Loft (2008), the latest thriller from Erik Van Looy (Memory of a Killer / De Zaak Alzheimer), is an incredibly addictive suspense score that’s driven by a simple rhythm over which a brooding melody is dragged over and over without any resolution. In place of closure, de Marco gives us a two-note comma so he can reset his rhythmic hook again, adding more percussion textures, discrete synths…
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