New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Music.Film Recordings has announced that the Netflix Original Series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, will get a special album release on vinyl. Fans of The Jim Henson Company's fantasy series can purchase a 2-LP set in a gatefold jacket, which includes highlights from both the Volume 1 soundtrack, featuring music by composer
Daniel Pemberton, and Volume 2 soundtrack with melodies by Pemberton and Samuel Sim, across four sides. The vinyl album is now available for pre-order and releases on February 7th, 2020.
Critical reception for the series has been immensely positive, especially for the original music. Consequence of Sound reviews how "Pemberton and Sim craft a dark, Celtic-inspired score that … fits the show's more intricate emotional grace notes." Collider adds how "composers
Daniel Pemberton and Samuel Sim do a bang-up job of establishing atmosphere and mood in a dynamic way."
Daniel Pemberton remarks how "one of the biggest challenges was trying to create themes that could all work together with one another across so many overlapping stories. So many different characters, places, emotions. It was important to have music that highlighted the differences but could also bring them together." He then continues, "The world Jim Henson created all that time ago feels unlike anything else and it has been such an honor to be a part of that story. It has been an immense amount of work - we created just under 8 hours of music for the entire series over almost two years - but such a privilege to work alongside such an immense array of talents and be a part of something so wonderfully unique and special as this new story from The Dark Crystal."
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is now streaming only on Netflix.
ABOUT THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance returns to the world of Thra, with an all new adventure. When three young Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, they set out on an epic journey to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.
ABOUT DANIEL PEMBERTON
He is a multi-Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated composer who has been regularly cited as one of the most exciting and original new voices working in modern film scoring today. Constantly working with some of the most renowned names in the industry, Pemberton has already scored projects for the likes of
Danny Boyle (Yesterday, Steve Jobs), Ridley Scott (All The Money In The World, The Counsellor),
Aaron Sorkin (Molly's Game), Darren Aronofsky (One Strange Rock) and Guy
Ritchie (The Man From UNCLE, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword). Pemberton's most recent project is the mystery adventure TV series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, which is now available on Netflix.
His bold writing and unusual and innovative arrangements on scores for movies has seen the soundtracks constantly singled out for critical acclaim whether they are studio films such as such as the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Oceans 8 or smaller independent features such as the Cannes Palm D'Or nominee Mal De Pierres or the feature Motherless Brooklyn from director Edward Norton.
He has received Golden
Globe nominations for his mix of opera and electronics in the score to
Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs as well as one for Best Original Song - performed and co-written by
Iggy Pop - for the Stephen Gaghan film Gold. He was recently nominated for an Emmy for his work on the groundbreaking 'USS Callister' episode of 'Black Mirror' for Netflix, and was previously honored as Discovery of The Year at the World
Soundtrack Awards in 2014 and nominated as Composer Of The Year in 2016.
ABOUT SAMUEL SIM
BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning composer Samuel Sim is widely considered to be one of the most exceptional musical talents of his generation. Early in his career, Samuel quickly stood out from the crowd with his award-winning score for the BBC's Dunkirk. A whirlwind success followed which soon saw him composing for the Hollywood feature film Awake for the Weinstein Company.
Samuel's most recent projects include two major upcoming series: 10-part Netflix drama The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance (co-scored with
Daniel Pemberton) and The Spanish Princess for New Pictures, four ITV feature films based on Georges Simoneson's Maigret novels starring Rowan Atkinson, ITV and Left Bank Pictures' major eight-part drama The Halcyon, BBC's dark and gritty drama Paula directed by Alex Holmes and ITV's hugely successful Homefires.
Other recent projects include C4's drama The Mill (for which Sam's score received an Ivor Novello nomination), ITV's Chasing Shadows, and the Charlie Brooker/Daniel Maier comedy creation Touch Of Cloth. He also composed a wonderfully evocative score for the riveting Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story.
TRACK LISTING
Side One:
1. The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance -
Daniel Pemberton (3:42)
2. Another World, Another Time -
Daniel Pemberton (3:26)
3. Story Of The Dark Crystal -
Daniel Pemberton (3:11)
4. Rian + Mira Dreamfast -
Daniel Pemberton (4:14)
5. Aughra Awakes -
Daniel Pemberton (2:03)
6. The Crystal Chamber -
Daniel Pemberton (3:15)
7. Essence Draining -
Daniel Pemberton (2:46)
Side Two:
1. What Lies At The Dream's End -
Daniel Pemberton (3:18)
2. Together We Fight -
Daniel Pemberton (4:48)
3. The Blue
Flames Part 1 -
Daniel Pemberton (3:51)
4. Deet In The Woods - Samuel Sim (2:10)
5. Speak For The Dead -
Daniel Pemberton (2:44)
6. Brea And The Library - Samuel Sim (1:32)
7. Her Light Faded -
Daniel Pemberton (2:37)
Side Three:
1. Dzenpo! -
Daniel Pemberton (2:55)
2. Remember Your Oath - Samuel Sim (1:23)
3. Puppet Show - Samuel Sim,
Daniel Pemberton (5:53)
4. Song Of Thra -
Daniel Pemberton (4:18)
5. The Skeksis Arrive - Samuel Sim (3:18)
6. Outcast -
Daniel Pemberton (1:48)
7. Outside Podling Wayhouse -
Daniel Pemberton (1:47)
Side Four:
1. An Old Story -
Daniel Pemberton (2:46)
2. The Three Brothers Rise -
Daniel Pemberton (1:04)
3. Attack Of The Arathim - Samuel Sim,
Daniel Pemberton (5:29)
4. Our Sister Is Gone - Samuel Sim (2:27)
5. The Dark Crystal: End Credits -
Daniel Pemberton (2:23)
6. The Dark Crystal: The Age Of Hope -
Daniel Pemberton (5:36)
ABOUT MUSIC.FILM RECORDINGS
Music.Film Recordings is the new soundtrack label launched by music services specialist Cutting Edge Group, a Grammy Award-winning music company for film, television, advertising, and games, and owner of the world's preeminent independent film music catalog, including Academy Award winners The King's Speech, Whiplash, the John Wick franchise, and Academy Award-nominated Sicario. Music.Film Recordings provides its partners with a full suite of creative, marketing, promotional, licensing, and distribution services. Music.Film Recordings is distributed worldwide by Universal
Music Distribution, in partnership with iconic soundtrack label Varèse Sarabande Records, wherever music is sold, downloaded, or streamed. Recent Music.Film Recordings titles include Sicario: Day of the Soldado composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir,
Daniel Hart's The Old Man & The Gun, and A
Private War featuring Golden Globe-nominated original song "Requiem For A
Private War" by
Annie Lennox. For more information about Cutting Edge Group, visit https://www.cuttingedgegroup.com. For licensing requests, visit www.music.film.
ABOUT THE JIM HENSON COMPANY
The Jim Henson Company has remained a leader in family entertainment for over 60 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation. Henson's most recent television credits include the critically-acclaimed Netflix Original series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, as well as Word Party and the Emmy®-nominated PBS series Splash and
Bubbles and Dinosaur Train. Productions include Fraggle Rock, The Storyteller, and the sci-fi series Farscape for TV, and the feature films The Star,
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. The Company is currently in production on the upcoming series Earth to Ned for Disney+ and Guillermo Del Toro's
Pinocchio for Netflix.
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