FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE SUMMER'S MOST VISUALLY INNOVATIVE MOVIE A
SCANNER DARKLY TO BE RELEASED BY LAKESHORE RECORDS
Directed by Richard Linklater, Featuring a Star Studded Cast, and Based
on the Philip K. Dick Novel, A Scanner Darkly Features Evocative
Original Music by Graham Reynolds With Re-Mixes by DJ Spooky and Jack
Dangers
(June 7, 2006- Los Angeles, CA) - In theaters July 7, A Scanner
Darkly is Richard Linklater's adaptation of the Philip K. Dick
classic novel. Graham Reynolds composed the original music, which he
performed with a cast of Austin-based musicians including his group
Golden Arm Trio. The soundtrack recording, on Lakeshore Records,
features the score plus two re-mixes, by DJ Spooky and Jack Dangers
(Meat Beat Manifesto)
A Scanner Darkly tells the darkly comedic, but deeply tragic tale of
drug use in the modern world. The film plays like a graphic novel come
to life to create a haunting version of America, seven years from now.
America's endless and futile war on drugs has become one and the same
with its war on terror. Reluctant undercover agent Bob Arctor (Keanu
Reeves) follows orders to spy on his friends, Jim Barris (Robert Downey
Jr.), Ernie Luckman (Woody Harrelson), Donna Hawthorne (Winona Ryder),
and Charles Freck (Rory Cochrane). When he is directed to step up the
surveillance on himself, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the
absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode.
To interpret this story Richard Linklater used a unique technique. He
took live-action photography and overlaid it with an advanced animation
process known as interpolated rotoscoping which he first employed in
the film Waking Life.
An original visual experience needs an original score. That's where
Graham Reynolds came in.
Composer Graham Reynolds is a composer, bandleader, pianist, and
drummer based in Austin, TX, who works constantly in theater, dance,
film, concert halls, and nightclubs. His compositions include four
symphonies, two operas, a violin concerto, more than a dozen one
movement string quartets and countless chamber music pieces. He also
the drummer-pianist for Golden Arm Trio, described by RollingStone.com
as a group which "freely charges into other realms as a
composer-performer: string quartets, symphonies, soundtracks,
improvised super-rock..., crossbreeding classical futurism and punk
esprit."
Austin-based director Richard Linklater approached Reynolds three years
ago at a club gig and asked him to compose the music for A Scanner
Darkly. For over a year and a half, Reynolds composed the score,
gathering musicians from the lineup of his band Golden Arm Trio and
began rehearsals before committing the score to tape and mixing in his
bedroom of his east Austin home.
Both with the time allotted to compose for the project his methods used
to write and record the music, Reynolds' approach was very different
than that of other film composers. "Since the film was being
animated, we had a year to work after the final cut was locked," said
Reynolds.
He began with an all-acoustic, somewhat jazz-noir sound, and kept
exploring different approaches, ending up with music that was halfway
between an acoustic and an electronic score. Reynolds described,
"all the sounds originally came from acoustic instruments, but for
much of the film, they are processed, mangled, and otherwise
transformed. The result is something very textured and organic, but
also otherworldly, sounding drug-induced and unidentifiable. In a
traditional three-week window, we never could have gotten to the place
this music ended up in."
The result is a score called "eerily evocative" by Variety.
Cinematical says "Graham Reynolds' score... fit subtly and
perfectly with the unique look of the film."
The soundtrack CD contains the music composed for the film plus two
remixes, by DJ Spooky and by Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto).
Reynolds said, "I've always admired electronic musicians and
remixers, it's so out of the musical realm that I normally work in
it's fascinating to me and these two top my list. Their signing on
was an honor and I was intensely curious to hear what they would do
with my stuff. The results are fantastic.
Warner Independent Pictures presents A Scanner Darkly, in theaters on
July 7, 2006. The Lakeshore Records soundtrack, featuring the score by
Graham Reynolds and remixed by DJ Spooky and Jack Dangers (Meat Beat
Manifesto) will be in-stores on June 27, 2006.
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