New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Downton Abbey composer John Lunn showcases a new musical side with his electrifying ambient score for Electricity, the latest film by director Bryn Higgins based on a novel by Ray Robinson. MovieScore Media releases the album in digital scores coinciding with the film's UK premiere on December 12, 2014, distributed by Soda Pictures.
The film follows the life of Lily O'Connor (Agyness Deyn), a young girl who lives her regular life as the cashier of a seaside amusement park. When her mother passes away, Lily vows to track down her missing younger brother, but her investigation is complicated by the girl's medical condition. Every so often, Lily is prone to epileptic fits that lead to dazzling visuals, mesmerizing sights, harrowing visuals and the occasional complete darkness…
In the last four years, the music of composer John Lunn have been playing an integral part in the success of Downton Abbey, one of the latest credits in the filmography of Britain's most reliable television composer. With a career spanning 25 years, Lunn contributed his talents to such shows as the darkly humourous Hotel Babylon (2006-2009),
Little Dorrit (2008) based on the novel of Charles Dickens or more recently, The White
Queen (2013) which chronicles the life of three Queens pining for the throne in 15th century England. Lunn also took part on the New Water
Music project, where eleven of Britain's most renowned film composers created a new orchestral work based on Händel's Water
Music to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of
Queen Elizabeth II.
"The music for Electricity has been one of my biggest challenges to date" claims the composer. Using only a handful of instruments, (a piano, an Oberheim 4-voice and a battery of analogue modular synth modules), Lunn attempts to convey Lily's journey through life in a sympathetic, but not sentimental way. The score also features several inventive cues for Higgins' revolutionary visual depiction of the epileptic fits in addition to the dark and moody underscoring of the mystery elements. Lunn's music for Electricity is an ultimately uplifting achievement which should delight soundtrack fans who enjoy inventive ensemble scores where a lot can be said with only a few instruments.
MovieScore Media and its sub-label Screamworks Records have released over 250 soundtrack albums since the launch of the company in 2006. Among the many acclaimed albums in the catalogue are soundtracks for Let the Right One In (Johan Soderqvist), four volumes of TV series Merlin (Rob Lane et al), Centurion (Ilan Eshkeri), A Royal Affair (Cyrille Aufort & Gabriel Yared), Grand Piano (Víctor Reyes) and Stalingrad (Angelo Badalamenti). In its 'Discovery Collection', MovieScore Media has released world premiere recordings of scores by esteemed composers such as Michael Kamen, Basil Poledouris, Patrick Doyle,
David Shire and Dario Marianelli. Recent projects include Automata (Zacarías M. de la Riva), Coherence (Kristin Øhrn Dyrud) and 13 Sins (Michael Wandmacher).
In 2012, an album released by MovieScore Media's sub-label Screamworks Records, The Shrine (music by Ryan Shore), was nominated for a Grammy Award in the 'Best Score
Soundtrack for Visual Media' category. MovieScore Media has been nominated to the International Film
Music Critics Association Award for 'Film
Music Record Label of the Year' six years in a row.
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