{"id":3307,"date":"2011-07-30T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2011-07-30T01:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:20:36","slug":"cd-heartless-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"CD: Heartless (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0Screamworks \/ MovieScore Media<\/a> \/\u00a0Released: June 28, 2011<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 14 tracks \/ (41:50)<\/p>\n

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Composer: David Julyan<\/p>\n

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For Philip Ridley\u2019s thriller Heartless<\/strong>, David Julyan returns to the ambient chiming sounds of The Descent<\/a><\/strong> (2005), although his approach is rooted more in the abstract, having elements of melody, rhythmic mobiles, and arching tones wafting through an aural cloud, just over a half hour in length.<\/p>\n

The title track is based around a gentle chamber piece \u2013 short, melancholic, and unresolved \u2013 which drifts throughout the score in whole or as ghostly vestiges, and it provides fleeting glimpses of bygone days, a character\u2019s humanistic emotions and moments of calm when the theme is heard without any surreal digital processing (as in \u201cNew Skin\u201d), but the score has its share of horrific jolts.<\/p>\n

\u201cPapa B\u201d is a great combination of percussion clusters with a howling voices, and the second half of \u201cIt\u2019s Ten O\u2019clock\u201d features light percussion, delicate piano, insect-like flicking noises, and an echoplexed chime borrowed from The Descent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Whereas in Descent 2<\/strong> (2009) Julyan was obligated to recap prior themes and emphasize more action, Heartless<\/strong> mines his talents for crafting sounds one would hear during a free-form nightmare, and he achieves this through a design where no theme or instrument is heart up close in its organic purity. The sounds have all been processed, but rather than splice and regurgitate material with samples, Julyan seems to have diluted many sounds to their most soluble remnants. The voices in \u201cPapa B,\u201d for example, are barely perceptible, but amid the washed out sounds behind the percussion there are human voices, and Julyan\u2019s creation captures the lead character\u2019s ongoing nightmare.<\/p>\n

There is some thematic repetition \u2013 \u201cYou\u2019re Beautiful\u201d is largely elliptical with a slight variation in the final bars \u2013 but fans of the composer\u2019s work should appreciate his low-key approach to horror that evokes Christopher Young\u2019s Haunted Summer<\/a> <\/strong>[M<\/a>]\u00a0(1988), of not some of Mark Snow\u2019s grim, threadbare music from Millenium<\/strong> (1996-1999).<\/p>\n

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

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