New York, NY (Top40 Charts) MovieScore Media presents the original score album featuring Dominik Scherrer's Emmy nominated music for Golden
Globe nominated series The Missing, whose pilot episode attracted almost 6 million viewers on BBC 1. The story follows Tony Hughes (James Nesbitt), a man devastated by the abduction of his son
Oliver during a family vacation in France. He becomes obsessed and spends years searching for him even though his frantic investigation ruins his marriage to Emily (Frances O'Connor). French police detective Julien Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo) is also haunted by the disappearance; he may be retired, but he is also haunted by the notion that
Oliver could still be alive. Told using a fascinating narrative puzzle with several time frames, The Missing explores the impact of a child's abduction, the emotional cost of obsession and letting go.
Scherrer's suspenseful yet lyrical accompaniment covers the investigation after Oliver; the hauntingly memorable title sequence incorporates the song "
Come Home" by Belgian postrock band
Amatorski the full version of the song as well as Scherrer's arrangement for the opening are both available on the album. "Thematically our emotional core was the pain of the loss of the child" explains the composer. "The story is about the fallout of this event, and how far, into many corners, in several countries, this can reach.
Director Tom Shankland, made an analogy: butterflies. They start as one thing then hatch and become another creature. Hence I made a whole series of interrelated themes relating to butterflies: "
Butterflies", "Actias Luna", Colias Croceus".
Swissborn composer Dominik Scherrer is a real veteran of the British television scene. His credits include the new adaptation of Agatha Christie's Marple (20042013), the hospital drama Monroe (2012/2013) and the scifi adventure series Primeval (20072009) whose soundtrack was also released by MovieScore Media. More recently Scherrer composed also the music score for both seasons of the British television crime series Ripper Street (2012) and his work can be heard in the currently aired third series as well. He won the Best Television
Soundtrack Award for his work on the show at the 2014 Ivor Novello Awards.
The Missing, whose pilot episode attracted almost 6 million viewers on BBC 1, follows Tony Hughes (James Nesbitt), a man devastated by the abduction of his son
Oliver during a family vacation in France. He becomes obsessed and spends years searching for him even though his frantic investigation ruins his marriage to Emily (Frances O'Connor). French police detective Julien Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo) is also haunted by the disappearance; he may be retired, but he is also haunted by the notion that
Oliver could still be alive. Told using a fascinating narrative puzzle with several time frames, The Missing explores the impact of a child's abduction, the emotional cost of obsession and letting go. The Missing received a nomination for Best Mini Series alongside Fargo and True Detective at the 2015 Golden
Globe Awards.
MovieScore Media and its sublabel 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 sublabel 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.
MovieScore Media's CDs CDs are distributed worldwide by Screen Archives Entertainment, except in the UK (RSK Entertainment) and Spain (Resistencia). Albums are available digitally from all major digital platforms, including iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Google Play and Spotify.