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To be fair, he didn’t promote his Percussion Concerto/Wunderkammer release bar reposting Sony Classical once.
I’d be surprised if Burton wasn’t temp-track obsessed with this one.
The best and most impactful cue is by another composer!
There was a cool cue for an awesome flashback sequence at least…
I enjoyed the movie, but I don’t know if I’ve ever been more disappointed by a score in a movie. Elfman is given almost nothing to do. It reminded me of Big Eyes, to be honest.
Only a handful of cues made an impression, and most of those felt like riffs on cues from the original. All the quirk and colours were gone.
My gut says that The Actor didn’t work out though there has been radio silence on that movie.
Elfman was spotted at a place where they film stop-motion projects. I would presume this is for Rhona.
Burton has shot 2×01, 2×04, and he’ll be shooting 2×08 this month. Minimum of three episodes for this season.
It’ll drop unceremoniously at 12am on Friday like most score releases these days I’d wager.
Burton got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. Seemed weird (though understandable) that Elfman wasn’t there.
Main title is on the website.
Elfman plans to release a new rock album late this year or early next. He also ‘will be doing shows In October in Los Angeles to support the new film Beetlejuice that will be released in September of 2024’.
Not sure what the latter means. Beetlejuice live-to-film?
This is just great stuff. It really holds up as a complete listening experience. Something interesting is always going on. I’m especially loving all the percussion dancing around my earphones and all of these bizarre noises that Elfman creates – it’s sometimes hard to tell what’s some odd percussion and what’s choir. Just fascinating stuff that’s simultaneously Elfman to its core yet something entirely unique in his discography.
An absolute must have.
ARE YOU LOST?
My first concerto was written for violinist Sandy Cameron. She had been besieging me for ages to write a duet for violin and voice. I finally relented on the condition that we add a piano and make it a trio. While talking about the project with two composer friends we all decided to write for the same trio for a collaborative project which will be called, appropriately, “Trio”. When I began discussing the possibility of recording the concerto and Wunderkammer with Sony Classical they suggested that I include something that had never been performed. It was then I decided to take one of the 4 moments I’d written for “Trio” and to both expand and adapt it for choir and full orchestra. Thus, the origins of “Are You Lost?”
From the Amazon preorder link for the CD.
We're excited to unveil @dannyelfman's new album — "Percussion Concerto & Wunderkammer."
Recorded with percussionist Colin Currie, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and JoAnn Falletta, the first single is out now!
Listen here: https://t.co/gUScqyOPUk pic.twitter.com/oSY3RLeIsg
— Sony Classical (@sonyclassical) April 5, 2024
The opening movement of Elfman’s percussion concerto was uploaded to Youtube 9 hours ago, but it’s not available yet. This is presumably following the release pattern for his violin concerto which uploaded the third movement as a ‘promo’ track of sorts.
Sony Classical will be releasing the album, which also features Wunderkammer.
