Manafonistas

Johan Johansson, the Islandic composer told about his work on the soundtrack of last year’s brilliant thriller PRISONERS: „Denis Villeneuve hired me because he wanted my sound, so as soon as I figured that out, it was really all about being myself. I reacted to the images and to the performances. Fortunately, if you have such good material to work with, my job becomes a lot easier. We wanted the music to work in contrast to the darkness of the film, to be a kind of lyrical and poetic voice that rings throughout. This music is very string based and is based on modal chord progressions. There is also a lot of music that is more psychological and serves to heighten the tension and the sense of unease. This music is very drone-based and a lot of it was created in Berlin with the cellist Hildur Gudnadóttir and Erik Skodvin from Deaf Center and Svarte Greiner. So there are these two voices working in a kind of counterpoint throughout the film.“  In my next edition of KLANGHORIZONTE  on January, 18th, I will play music from the soundtrack (Thanks to Ed Dense sending me the soundtrack out of nowhere!) Finally, I got the brillant vinyl-edition of Arthur  Russell’s „Another Thought“ (thank you, A-Musik!) which will get extensive airplay, too. It’s a bit difficult to place jazzman Arild Andersen‘ new album MIRA in this context, and even more strange to let Doug Paislay sing a song from his forthcoming album STRONG FEELINGS, but I will try to find a plot :)