Atli Orvarsson's new epic score for the computer-animated action-adventure/drama Bilal: A New Breed of Hero is going to be released by Lakeshore Records on October 28. This one has been sounding very promising!
Atli Orvarsson's new epic score for the computer-animated action-adventure/drama Bilal: A New Breed of Hero is going to be released by Lakeshore Records on October 28. This one has been sounding very promising!
At the market catalogue of this year's Cannes festival, the entire front page was devoted to a poster of this film -- obviously made possible due to the financial assistance of filthy rich sheiks. I didn't pay that much attention to it, other than to note that it looked kinda cheesy.
Later in the festival, I was moderator at a film music seminar focussing -- in part -- on Nordic film music. Atli was also part of that seminar, and during the after-seminar drinks I started chatting with him (we had previously met in Helsinki). He told me about his involvement in this film, which came as a surprise to me since he's moved to Iceland and basically focusses on smaller, local movies these days. I pulled up the catalogue to show him the cover, and told him I wasn't entirely sold on the premise, which comes off as a Muslim propaganda movie, much in the same style as last year's MUHAMMED: MESSENGER OF GOD. But I was very curious about the score -- like the MUHAMMED film with A.R. Rahman's excellent score, I thought it would have the potential for great music.
And lo and behold, now an album is here, and the music is indeed quite good.
At the market catalogue of this year's Cannes festival, the entire front page was devoted to a poster of this film -- obviously made possible due to the financial assistance of filthy rich sheiks. I didn't pay that much attention to it, other than to note that it looked kinda cheesy.
Later in the festival, I was moderator at a film music seminar focussing -- in part -- on Nordic film music. Atli was also part of that seminar, and during the after-seminar drinks I started chatting with him (we had previously met in Helsinki). He told me about his involvement in this film, which came as a surprise to me since he's moved to Iceland and basically focusses on smaller, local movies these days. I pulled up the catalogue to show him the cover, and told him I wasn't entirely sold on the premise, which comes off as a Muslim propaganda movie, much in the same style as last year's MUHAMMED: MESSENGER OF GOD. But I was very curious about the score -- like the MUHAMMED film with A.R. Rahman's excellent score, I thought it would have the potential for great music.
And lo and behold, now an album is here, and the music is indeed quite good.
Very interesting Thor. Incidentally the film is directed by Pakistani co-film maker: Khurram H. Alavi
