that guy in Radiohead

A belated Eid mubarak wasa'id and Rosh haShanah tovah if you've celebrated either...

I'm in the process of rediscovering the soundtrack for last year's _There Will Be Blood_, which was composed by Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/47708-there-will-be-blood-ost

The string-heavy soundtrack bears the influence of mid-to-late 20th century composers such as Penderecki and Messiaen (neither of which I'm very familiar with, but I have heard "Threnody"). He's using all sorts of cluster chords and quarter tones in this. I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed here on the list since the work got a lot of attention from critics, mostly positive. Greenwood would likely have won an Oscar had he not been disqualified for using "pre-recorded material".

I'm also listening to "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnNN1KigLO0 - it was that which got TWBB director Paul Thomas Anderson's attention.

~D.

I went ahead and bought it - very good!! Thanks!

If anyone here wants a -listen- not a copy, I have it on my winamp
remote server.

email me and I'll let you have a listen. All you need is a viable
email account and a browser.
(it has a built in flash player as well as other options)

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
> A belated Eid mubarak wasa'id and Rosh haShanah tovah if you've
> celebrated either...
>
> I'm in the process of rediscovering the soundtrack for last year's
> _There Will Be Blood_, which was composed by Radiohead guitarist Johnny
> Greenwood:
>
> http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/47708-there-will-be-blood-ost
>
> The string-heavy soundtrack bears the influence of mid-to-late 20th
> century composers such as Penderecki and Messiaen (neither of which I'm
> very familiar with, but I have heard "Threnody"). He's using all sorts
> of cluster chords and quarter tones in this. I'm surprised it hasn't
> been discussed here on the list since the work got a lot of attention
> from critics, mostly positive. Greenwood would likely have won an Oscar
> had he not been disqualified for using "pre-recorded material".
>
> I'm also listening to "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" right now:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnNN1KigLO0 - it was that which got TWBB
> director Paul Thomas Anderson's attention.
>

Chris Vaisvil wrote:
> I went ahead and bought it - very good!! Thanks!
>
> If anyone here wants a -listen- not a copy, I have it on my winamp
> remote server.
>
> email me and I'll let you have a listen. All you need is a viable
> email account and a browser.
> (it has a built in flash player as well as other options)

Thanks, and some/most/all of the tracks are also uploaded on YouTube (in lower quality, of course). And a correction: it's Jonny Greenwood, not "Johnny"; my bad. ~D.