Two more interesting and innovative scores from Movie Score Media, which is nothing new from this pioneering and ever industrious soundtrack specialist. The first is from the movie Honeydew which has a score by composer John Mehrmann. This is a score that is a fusion of music, musical sounds and voices that are all used in a highly original way. The composer serves up an inventive and thought-provoking work as in one finds yourself listening more intently to the cues, simply to decipher how he achieved the sound. This is a concoction of half heard vocal phrases, and short stabs of sounds, which combined with anything thematic conveys to its listener a mood that is unnerving, unsettling and at times down-right scary. It is a rather intense listening experience, a sinister and a surprising work, with the composer employing sounds rather than music to create moods and atmospheres, I won’t say it is an easy listen because it is not, modern, slightly unbalanced and maybe bordering on the Avant Garde, but easy no. Check it out, available soon on digital platform.
As will be the latest score from Andrew Lockington and Michael White, Trigger Point, which is also released by Movie Score Media is a score not filled with grand and rich themes but is one that has to it a brooding and drone like aura. Yes, there are fragments of thematic material within it, but these rarely develop, but this does not however mean that it is a score that I do not like, because the way in which it is constructed is like Honeydew interesting, it has to it a tense and alluring persona, and it is I think the fleeting hints of melody that make it so, because they are given no room to develop and are overwhelmed by the dark and ominous synthetics. Not a symphonic work at all, but realized by electronic elements and soundscape as opposed to soundtrack, but still certainly worth a listen.
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