Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ Cinemedia Promotions) Lakeshore Records will release the Brotherhood - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack available digitally on March 22, 2011. The film earned the Audience Award at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Dan Marocco (co-composer Deadline) composed the original music. The album also features songs by People in Planes,
Taxi Taxi and Aushua.
Born in central Texas in 1979 and raised in Osaka Japan, Santa Monica-based composer Dan Marocco graduated from New York University in 2002 with a degree in musicbusiness. The son of a music teacher, Dan has studied and performed music his entire life.
Dan's first feature film score, Deadline was co-written with Peter Nashel (Bee Season, The Night Listener, The Deep End) and debuted at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Since then Dan has contributed to the scores for numerous TV shows and short films and has assisted several award winning film composers, such as Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Queen, Syriana) and Javier Navarrete (Pan's Labyrinth, Mirrors, Inkheart).
Brotherhood is Dan's first solo feature film score, and continues his long-time collaboration with writer/director Will Canon and co-writer Doug Simon.
"Much of what makes Brotherhood such a thrilling film to watch is the constant and ever-evolving tension," described Marocco." Director Will Canon asked me to try to make the most of that tension and to help him maintain an uneasiness throughout the film."
College freshman Adam Buckley finds himself blindfolded in the back of a van dealing with the fact that he has to rob a convenience store as the final step of his initiation into the Sigma Zeta Chi (SZX) fraternity. Minutes later he finds himself dealing with the fact that a fellow-pledge just got shot while doing it.
Frank, the senior fraternity brother in charge of the night's events, is able to get the injured pledge out of the store alive, but the fraternity's troubles are just beginning. Thinking they can get out of the situation without taking the pledge to a hospital, Frank decides the group will handle things themselves. But when every move is met with disaster, Adam must find it within himself to go against Frank and his new brothers in order tosave his friend's life.
"By using electric guitar in an edgier southern-rock style I was able build tension and bridge the gap from traditional score to music that the characters might listen to, in an effort to help the audience to feel more a part of SZX," said Marocco. "I also drew inspiration from the idea that steady repetition can be one of the most effective and maddening ways to build tension."
The soundtrack also features the songs "Moth" by People in Planes, "+1" by Taxi Taxi, and "Sister Saves" by Aushua.
Three Folks Pictures presents Brotherhood currently available as a video-on-demand, currently playing in theaters in Dallas and Los Angeles, opening in New York City on March 11, 2011. Brotherhood Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be released digitally on March 22, 2011.
