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Music will release the ONE PERCENT MORE HUMID - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack digitally on October 10th. The album features the movie's original score by Nathan Halpern (RICH HILL, THE WITNESS, HOOLIGAN SPARROW) featuring an original song "Calling to Me" with music and lyrics by Nathan Halpern and vocals by Emily Forsythe.
"ONE PERCENT MORE HUMID is a coming-of-age film with love & grief experienced through the eyes of the two young women at the heart of the story, played beautifully by Juno Temple and Julia Garner," remarks Halpern.
"We wanted to evoke that feeling where drunken summertime love and pain co-mingle in a personal journey. Musically, this was expressed with a melancholic, romantic piano motif representing the sensitive striving of our characters towards self-discovery. I set these sounds against churning, distorted tones of anguish, fluttering harps and strings of sexual excitement, and abstract, reflective sounds to evocative of longing and loss.
We also did an original song for the end credits - "Calling to Me" - to give a really direct voice to the film's themes of yearning, grief, and love. Emily Forsythe has a haunting voice and sings the piece with an ethereal tenderness. We wanted it to play both as a song the characters might listen to - it actually plays out of a bedroom stereo during one pivotal scene - as well as one that emerged out of their subjective experiences, a song they might have written themselves," says Halpern.
Hear the original song "Calling to Me" here:
About ONE PERCENT MORE HUMID:
Iris and Catherine, college-age childhood friends, reunite for a humid New England summer to help each other cope with the unimaginable -- a friend has died in a car accident, an accident which they both survived.
About Nathan Halpern:
Nathan Halpern is an Emmy-nominated composer, named one of Indiewire's 'Composers to Watch.' Notable film scores include Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner RICH HILL ("one of the best non-fiction scores we've heard in years" - Indiewire), the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (HBO Films), and the 2017 Oscar-shortlisted films HOOLIGAN SPARROW and THE WITNESS. His latest scores include JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD (Netflix / New York Film Festival) and the feature narrative THE RIDER (Sony
Pictures Classics), winner of the Art Cinema Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was praised for its "understated yet beautiful score" (ScreenAnarchy) and it's "moving score" (Screendaily).
Tracklist:
1
Calling to Me (Vocals by Emily Forsythe)
2 One Percent More Humid
3
Madame Iris
4 Iris Alone
5 Grief Poetry
6 Remembering Mae
7 I'll Be With Mae
8 The First Time
9 Confession
10 Hang Up
11 We Miss You
