Happy Birthday to singer, songwriter, multiple band member and 12-time Grammy winner Jack White.
He’s worked with Beck, Loretta Lynn, The Rolling Stones, Nas, Bob Dylan, Alicia Keys, acted in Cold Mountain, and even played Elvis Presley in the cult (fake) biopic Walk Hard.
All this from the guy who studied upholstery and planned to become a priest.
Thanks for all the joy you've given us. Have a great day Mr. White!
Congratulations to master sound designer Steve Fanagan. He not only just picked up an IFTA Award (along with Niall Brady and Niall O’Sullivan) for the incredible sound design work on Normal People, he has also been invited to join the Academy.
Link to Steve’s bio HERE.
Just checked out these two new soundtrack releases this week and we’re buzzing!
Devonté Hynes aka Blood Orange has been a busy bee. He's just scored HBO’s revival of US drama In Treatment and has also written and recorded the track Born To Be for the political thriller Beckett on Netflix.
And the mighty Mica Levi is back with an avant-garde xylophone frenzie of a score for the dark comedy Zola, a story based on a viral Twitter thread about two women who travel to Florida for a wild weekend. Variety calls it ’scandalously intoxicating’.
Listen to Devonté Hynes’ soundtrack for In Treatment HERE
Listen to Mica Levi’s soundtrack for Zola HERE
Film News: Aska Matsumiya has been invited to be a member of the Academy.
She joins invitees H.E.R., Janet Jackson, Amelia Warner and Leslie Odom Jr. in the music category.
Huge congrats Aska, we’re thrilled for you!
Read Aska’s full bio HERE.
THE NEEDLE DROP: Master music supervisor Ian Neil chooses Peppino Gagliardi’s Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera which he dropped into The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Ian says - Another Guy Ritchie film for my latest Needle Drop of which I make no apologies as Ritchie is a director that uses music to full effect. And huge credit to the editor James Herbert here. He edits this with such great effectiveness and has the sense to pick one of the handful of songs I suggested for this scene. The casualness of Henry Cavill eating his sandwich and drinking his wine, listening to this tune while his partner is drowning, is such a great scene. The song has over 13 million listens now on Spotify - I am sure it was only a few hundred thousand when we selected it back then. So it’s always a true joy to see a song find a new life and new fans through a cool movie sync.
Read Ian’s full bio HERE