Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) - Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack for SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, available via iTunes and Amazon
Digital on October 14th and in stores on November 25th. The soundtrack contains original music composed by Jon Brion (Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia).
Jon Brion received a Best Score nomination by the World Soundtrack Awards for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which was co-written by his Synecdoche, New York director Charlie Kaufman and that film's director Michel Gondry. Brion is a singer, songwriter, composer, music producer and instrumentalist. He recently composed the scores for The Break-Up and scored and wrote songs for I Heart Huckabees. Additionally, Brion composed scores for Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love (2001) and Magnolia (1999, Grammy nomination for Best Score), and Hard Eight (1996).
Highly in demand as a producer and studio musician, Brion has collaborated with such artists as Kanye West, Dido, Macy Gray, Rufus Wainwright, The Crystal Method, Jude Cole, Susanna Hoffs, Sam Phillips, and EELS. In addition to his collaboration with top artists, Brion released his first solo album, "Meaningless," in 2001.
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is the directorial debut of two-time Academy Award-winning writer Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich). "I love working with Charlie Kaufman," described Brion. "He is one of my favorite creative people in the world. All of my experiences with him have been consistently great... This one has been no exception."
Boasting an all star cast, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK stars Academy Award-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, two-time Academy Award-nominee Samantha Morton, Academy Award-nominee Michelle Williams, two-time Academy Award-nominee Catherine Keener, two-time Academy Award-nominee Emily Watson, two-time Academy Award-winner Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, and Tom Noonan.
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground and threatens his new marriage to actress Claire (Michelle Williams). And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one.
Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality.
"As far as the record is concerned," described Brion, "if you've got a weird knot in your gut or some things you can't let go of or return to, this may be the soundtrack for you."
Sony Pictures Classics presents SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on October 24, 2008, and theaters nationwide throughout October. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK original soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available via iTunes and Amazon Digital on October 14th and in stores on November 25th.
