Lakeshore Records To Release Soundtrack For Howl

Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ Cinemedia Promotions) - Lakeshore Records will release the Howl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring original music by Carter Burwell (Burn After Reading, Gods and Monsters). The film is composed from court records, interviews, and the poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg, with animation inspired by Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker.

The soundtrack will be available via iTunes and Amazon Digital on September 21st and in stores on October 19, 2010.

Composer Carter Burwell began composing for film in the mid-1980s for the Coen Brothers first feature film, Blood Simple. This has led to a twenty-year collaboration on such films as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou? No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading. Burwell's credits also include Being John Malkovich, Before Night Falls, Velvet Goldmine, The Spanish Prisoner, Three Kings, and Celluloid Closet, his first collaboration with Howl's writer/director team of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg-poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional, leave-nothing-out style, Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless and electrifying work of his career: the poem Howl. Meanwhile, in a San Francisco courtroom, Howl is on trial. Prosecutor Ralph McIntosh (David Strathairn) sets out to prove that the book should be banned, while suave defense attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) argues fervently for freedom of speech and creative expression. The proceedings veer from the comically absurd to the passionate as a host of unusual witnesses (Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, Alessandro Nivola) pit generation against generation and art against fear in front of conservative Judge Clayton Horn (Bob Balaban).

Howl is simultaneously a portrait of a renegade artist breaking down barriers to find love and redemption, and an imaginative ride through a prophetic masterpiece that rocked a generation and was heard around the world.

Oscilloscope Laboratories presents Howl in theaters and on Cable VOD on September 24, 2010. The Howl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available via iTunes and Amazon digital on September 21st and in stores on October 19, 2010.