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Nov 26, 2014 - 2:55 PM
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bobbengan
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I had the [mis]fortune of catching this incredibly lousy, budget-starved, terribly photographed and directed kid's film, about two siblings lost in the Alaskan bush, on TV the other day. It is bad - very bad - but to my delight and surprise, it has a big, brassy, soaring orchestral score.
For a film where a GoPro was used for aerial photography, green screen work looks like a sxith-grader's first attempt at special effects and the picture editing felt like an unrefined assembly cut at best, I was amazed that a large scale, sweeping musical accompaniment like this was allotted in the budget.
There are many sweeping triumphant cues throughout, some lovely and intimate character-building stuff and an outstanding cue early on accompanying a flight over the Alaskan wilderness, with amazingly resounding brass flourishes, rolling woodwinds and surging strings (this piece is reprised for the end title roll as well). It's probably the single best piece of film music I've heard in 2014.
The score is by Czech composer Varhan Orchestrovich Bauer, whom has done very little according to IMDB, though I've heard great things about his most high-profile film, GOYA'S GHOST from a few years back. VERY little info about this guy on the web, and certainly it appears that the score has never been released in any context. According to the credits it was recorded in Prague. No website for the composer that I could find.
Anyone familiar with this score, composer, etc.?
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Nov 26, 2014 - 5:21 PM
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bobbengan
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The score is by Czech composer Varhan Orchestrovich Bauer,
His real middle name is 'orchestrovich'?!
Apparently!
I DID find a website, but it's a real mess - Horrible layout and while there are audio samples of past projects, none of them are recent. It looks like the site could use some updating for sure.
Can't find any clips or examples from Youtube either I'm afraid. If you like John Scott's FAR FROM HOME or William's most outwardly brazen straightforward American style ala SPACECAMP (or perhaps even Joel McNeely's early Americana sound, as in GOLD DIGGERS especially), you'd probably love this score. There's a weirdly Media Ventures-ish bit of contemporary-sounding scoring for the last scene into the first portion of the end title, but aside from that you could have mistaken this for a late 80's - early 90's outdoors adventure score.
There ARE a few moments of "cutsey" Mickey Mousing (It's a kid's movie after all), but overall, really excellent stuff, and terrifically orchestrated. Haven't heard winds or harp used this abundantly in a while.
I'm surprised Movie Score Monthly didn't nab this one right away - It's RIGHT up their alley...
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Here is a little sample from his GOYA'S GHOSTS score. it is worth mentioning that Jose Nieto provided some additional music for the movie too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FchM-EyoAdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ril7M8qwtrA
Nieto score was actually rejected. Is he credited for the additional music?
He was the replacement for Alberto Iglasias, who was originally reported to be scoring it (I don't know if he did anything or not).
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