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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE SUMMERS 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 Linklaters 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. Americas 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. Thats 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, Ive always admired electronic musicians and remixers, its so out of the
musical realm that I normally work in its 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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