I love how we made this movie. Robin told me about the idea and we quickly realised the entire music had to be fully made before the edit. As they were writing and talking about the shooting, I lay down a demo and it became the drive for the edit.
As the song evolve it gets more and more destroyed.
Melancholic Feel is a chord sequence I’ve had cycling my mind since the beginning of 2022.
The album lenght is 1h01m23s and each track last 1m23s.
Yes, you’re allowed to use a calculator.
I composed most of the main themes before the story was even written.
I asked actress Lou Howard, who plays in the series, to sing on the score and bring more liveness to a focused electronic score.
It is the score I’m the most proud of.
I had to score a scene and only had one hour to do so.
Has I was searching for ideas I decided to strip everything and just lay the most simplistic piano chords and let them ring.
Sometimes you just need silence between notes.
I wanted to replicate the creative process of Jean Ewen engraving the car with music.
I took sounds from the car breakers and used organics instruments that has a metallic sound.
I gave the score an electronic feel without using synths.
I wanted to pay respect to all those stories in this series by crafting a serious and sober theme.
I invite you to hear those stories yourself.
In 2020, during lockdown, I received an email of exemplary quality from the luna25 team. I was touched by what they wanted to do musically and by their musical references.
Dramatic, melancholic and poetic.