Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds is set to release his first Hollywood film score for Sam Levinson’s Sundance Winning feature film debut ‘Another Happy Day’, starring Ellen Barkin and Demi Moore. The album is release via UK modern classical label Erased Tapes Records who also released ‘A Winged Sullen for the Victory‘.
Ólafur has proven yet again that the space between the notes evoke as much power as the music itself. He possesses the power to not just bend time but to stop it. The track ‘Poland‘ is testimony to this and it is also one of the most beautiful tracks we’ve heard in a while…
‘In mid-December 2010 I was on a holiday in China when I received an email from Sam Levinson about the film. We got on the phone at like 4 in the morning Beijing time and ended up talking all through the night, instantly connecting. He told me that they had been listening to my music while making the film, so the film was already very influenced by my music. However, it was not until Ellen Barkin – the beautiful force that she is – had pestered the producers for a week, calling them every day about how I am the right one for this film, that they finally gave in. The only catch was that it had to be done two weeks later, in the first week of January. So I ended up scoring nonstop all throughout Christmas, making my mother mad in the process.’ – Ólafur Arnalds
The score is a fantastic break for Ólafur Arnalds that will bring his music to a wider audience…as he said earlier this week:
I’m not hating the fact that my music is in a film that just had the third biggest opening weekend of all time…
Tracklisting
1. The Land Of Nod
2. Through The Screen
3. Before The Calm
4. Lynn’s Theme
5. Alice Enters
6. The Wait
7. A Family Stroll
8. Poland
9. Out To Sea
10. Autumn Day
11. Everything Must Change
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