Tag: Jon Ekstrand

Soundtrack Reviews + Updates

Soundtrack Reviews + Updates

April 22, 2015 | By

Reviews of Jon Ekstrand’s Child 44 (2015) score and Michael Brook’s music for the IMAX 3D film Jerusalem (2013) from Lakeshore Records + details on the completion of my short video store doc, BSV 1172.

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CD: Child 44 (2015)

CD: Child 44 (2015)

April 21, 2015 | By

Jon Ekstrand’s palette for this period thriller is largely locked onto a modest string orchestra with slight percussion accompaniment, evoking a grim, grey, emotionally dead world – no coincidence, since the child murder plot takes place in Stalinist Soviet Russia…

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