{"id":2948,"date":"2011-05-24T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2011-05-24T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:48:00","slug":"cd-yesterday-was-a-lie-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"CD: Yesterday Was a Lie (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0La-La Land Records<\/a> \/ Released: February 15, 2011<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 22 tracks \/ (65:20)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 8-page booklet with liner notes by director James Kerwin and composer Kristopher Carter. \/ Limited to 1000 copies..<\/p>\n

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Composer: Kristopher Carter<\/p>\n

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Prior to the 2011 TV series<\/a>, writer \/ director James Kerwin\u2019s first poke at his sci-fi \/ noir concept was this 2008 feature film, shot in black & white, and scored by Kristopher Carter with a mix of lounge jazz, orchestral underscore, and a several vocal pieces.<\/p>\n

As a singer, co-star Chase Masterson adopts a melodic, spoken word style to uplift the facile lyrics, making her two lounge songs lesser works on the CD, and her range is sweetened with digital effects in the contemporary pop vocal \u201cHe Won\u2019t Forget You,\u201d but the rest of Carter\u2019s score is a surprisingly rich blend of beautiful orchestral cues and noir jazz as filtered through nostalgic, contemporary lounge arrangements.<\/p>\n

Carter\u2019s underscore combines piano and keyboards to tie to the film\u2019s jazz component, and the modern orchestral writing captures the experience of being trapped in dark places, or on a constant search for some mystical truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cDream Time\u201d nicely sets the tone with an elliptical piano pattern, and eerie chords that smack of human desperation from stressors beyond rain-soaked streets and alleys. Carter\u2019s harmonic transitions from strings to brass are flawless, and worked into the cue is a sly quotation of the Dies Irae<\/a>. \u201cAker,\u201d another long cue, blends orchestra and contemporary synths, but its main driving force is a sad violin solo which provides a moving emotional statement for the score\u2019s finale, punctuated with a dramatic synthetic stab at the very end.<\/p>\n

In terms of jazz, the most overt is \u201cNice Set,\u201d written for piano, muted trumpet and string bass, and \u201c6.626 x 10-34\u201d features another silky theme rendition with sax added to the jazz combo.<\/p>\n

A wailing sax is replicated into an echoey pattern with electronics in the brief cue \u201cCat State,\u201d and electronic vibes and atmospheric synth tones in \u201cTrauma Creates Ripples\u201d recall Cliff Martinez\u2019 ambient textures, as does \u201cAjna\u201d with light keyboards before the gradual addition of lush strings.<\/p>\n

The CD also comes with a pair of bonus cues \u2013 \u201cCity Talks,\u201d a rock source performed by Simon Shapiro, and \u201cCan You Help Me?\u201d a score cut from a deleted scene \u2013 plus a booklet with liner notes.<\/p>\n

Carter\u2019s better known for his massive animated film and TV series work, including Teen Titans<\/strong>, Justice League<\/strong>, The Spectacular Spider-Man<\/strong>, and Batman:<\/strong> The Brave and the Bold<\/strong>, but Yesterday Was a Lie<\/strong> features a darker writing style with nostalgic nods to classical noir imagery.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2011 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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CD: \u00a0Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo<\/a><\/strong> (2008)<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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Return to:\u00a0Home \/\u00a0Soundtrack \u00a0Reviews \/ V to Z . Rating: Very Good Label:\u00a0La-La Land Records \/ Released: February 15, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: 22 tracks \/ (65:20) . Special Notes: 8-page booklet with liner notes by director James Kerwin and composer Kristopher Carter. \/ Limited to 1000 copies.. . Composer: Kristopher Carter . . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[495],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-Ly","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}