Cliff Martinez: Music for Film

Film Fest Gent presents Cliff Martinez: Music for Film, featuring selected highlights from the 2014 World Soundtrack Awards guest of honour’s music for cinema, performed by the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé. American composer (and former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer) Cliff Martinez has built a successful and distinctive career in music for screen, producing rich, ambient textural scores and soundscapes that are often infused with his unique electronic manipulation of sounds and his own percussion performances. He is well known for his multiple collaborations with directors Steven Soderbergh (Solaris, Contagion) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Only God Forgives), both of which are represented on this album, as are some of his works for other directors including the likes of Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park) and Robert Redford (The Company You Keep). Unique to this album, many of the pieces have been newly adapted for symphonic orchestra under the supervision of Film Fest Gent music director Dirk Brossé. Where appropriate, the arrangements carefully maintain the balance with the composer’s electronic tracks. Previously released in 2014, this reissue has been remastered and resequenced, and is now available in Film Fest Gent’s ‘Music for Film’ series with Silva Screen Records. Tracklist: 01 Solaris – First Sleep 02 Solaris – Is That What Everyone Wants? 03 Contagion – Contagion 04 Contagion – Bad Day to Be a Rhesus Monkey 05 The Underneath – The Green Head 06 À l’origine – Appelez-moi Philippe 07 À l’origine – Les territoires inconnus 08 À l’origine – Vous aimez ces couleurs? 09 Kafka – Eddie’s Dead 10 Only God Forgives – More Hands 11 Espion(s) – The Mission Is Over 12 Espion(s) – Mind If I Use Your Ladies? 13 Espion(s) – I Don’t Know Any Nice People 14 Wicker Park – Following Daniel 15 The Company You Keep – Father and Daughter Reunion 16 The Company You Keep – Can’t Say I’m Happy to See You