Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Lakeshore Records will release the RED SKY - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack digitally on August 5, 2014. The album features original music by Timothy Williams (WALKING WITH THE ENEMY, ABERRATION).
"[Director]
Mario Van Peebles was very passionately involved with the score, and wanted to focus not just on the action and the espionage, but the relational and emotional music," said Williams. "For him the quieter cues were as important if not more important than the full on action cues."
Timothy Williams is a multi-award winning composer and orchestrator for film, television, video games and theater. His films have earned over 58 awards. Born in England and raised in Canada, Williams is a trained pianist. He studied music at the Toronto Conservatory of
Music and the
Victoria Conservatory of Music. In 1986, Williams relocated to England to work at the BBC as a copyist and orchestrator. He would return to Canada a few years later to write the musical NAPOLEON, which opened at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto in 1994, and in London's West End in 2000.
Eventually Williams' work would take him to Los Angeles. He has written music for award-winning films including THE MULBERRY TREE, THE BUTTERFLY CIRCUS, HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK and LUTEFISK WARS. He scored the Tom Hanks produced documentary BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES and has written additional music for 300, SUCKER PUNCH, WATCHMEN, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, THE BLACK FREIGHTER, SHARK NIGHT 3D and DOOMSDAY. As an orchestrator, Tim has orchestrated over 63 films, over 40 episodes of TV and 8 Video Games for composers including Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Tyler Bates (including the upcoming GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY), Trent Reznor, Robert Duncan,
David Sardy and John Kavanagh.
Williams' 2014 film releases include WALKING WITH THE ENEMY, starring Ben Kingsley and Jonas Armstrong, directed by Mark
Schmidt and recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and DEBUG, starring Jason Momoa, directed by
David Hewlett.
"The score for RED SKY moves between the USA, Azerbaijan and Russia," Williams explained. He used a lot of ethnic drums and instruments including the duduk - an oboe-like instrument common to both Russia and Azerbaijan. "The other instrument I used to evoke the
Middle East was a Ney, which a great buzzy wind instrument that instantly evokes the hot desert."
Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot
Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a cataclysmic WMD. Finding his former partner Tom
Craig working as a hired gun for the terrorists, Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the red-streaked skies of combat to reclaim his military and personal honor. RED SKY is directed by
Mario Van Peebles (SONS OF ANARCHY).
Aldamisa Entertainment presents RED SKY available on VOD. The RED SKY - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack will be available digitally August 5, 2014.
