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Music today announced the release of the soundtrack to filmmaker Guy Ritchie's action adventure King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, in theatres May 12, 2017. The album features music from Golden Globe-nominated composer
Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs, Man From U.N.C.L.E.), and will be released in both a 26-track standard edition available on CD and digitally, as well as a 30-track digital deluxe edition. The digital versions will be released May 5, followed by the CD release on May 19.
The unique, inventive and broad creative range Pemberton brings to his projects is omnipresent on the King Arthur: Legend of the
Sword album. "This isn't your usual Hollywood epic adventure, it's a Guy
Ritchie Hollywood epic adventure," explained Pemberton. "That means usual rules don't apply. In fact no rules apply. All that matters is can you make a score that sounds like nothing else? That was the mission.
"I started to curate a mongrel orchestra made up of the weirdest instruments and sounds I could find and make," continued Pemberton. "I would be up at 2am with my face red and stinging, having spent the last hour slapping it as hard as I could to get unusual percussive sounds. I told my neighbors to not worry if they heard any screaming from my flat; I was just trying an idea out. There is so much rich imagery in the film - the dirt, the grime, the metal, the leather, the wood, the stones - I wanted to bring as much of this into the score as I could. We wanted the music to feel physically visceral. Bit by bit we built it into a soundtrack that could take you on a journey the size and scale of the movie itself."
Acclaimed Mercury Prize-nominated British folk singer and passionate explorer of ancient folk songs Sam Lee performs the film's end title track, "The Devil & The Huntsman," with Pemberton, who praises Lee's voice as "timeless."
"Seeing the visual and narrative brilliance of Guy and his team conjure up a world once so steeped in old song and then permit the unvarnished beauty of our inherited music into this vision is not only thrilling but nods at his masterful nose for authenticity and a sense of something unusual yet very familiar," recounts Lee. "It's about time British Folk music made it to Hollywood and Guy has finally got it there! Dan Pemberton's soundtrack is spellbinding. It brings a visceral and sonic grandeur to this powerful yet simple number, bringing drama to the song and many a scene in ways that fuse the spirit and vision of the story as though they had always existed together."
The King Arthur: Legend of the
Sword Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack is now available for preorder. The track list is as follows:
From Nothing Comes A King
King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword
Growing Up Londinium
Jackseye's Tale
The Story Of Mordred
Vortigen And The Syrens
The Legend Of Excalibur
Seasoned Oak
The Vikings & The Barons
The Politics & The Life - Performed by
Daniel Pemberton and Gareth Williams
Tower & Power
The Born King
Assassins Breathe
Run Londinium
Fireball
Journey To The Caves
The Wolf & The Hanged Men
Camelot In Flames
The Lady In The Lake
The Darklands
Revelation
King Arthur: Destiny Of The Sword
The Power Of Excalibur
Knights Of The
Round Table
King Arthur: The Coronation
The Devil & The Huntsman - Performed by Sam Lee and
Daniel Pemberton
The Ballad Of Londinium - (Bonus Track - available on
Deluxe Digital Version)
Riot &
Flames - (Bonus Track - available on
Deluxe Digital Version)
Anger - (Bonus Track - available on
Deluxe Digital Version)
Cave Fight - (Bonus Track - available on
Deluxe Digital Version)
