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Release Date Friday 10th May 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day
With 14 Academy Award nominations,
seven Grammy awards, and an Emmy
to his credit, Thomas Newman has a
track record second to none among
modern screen composers (and even
among his family, which is saying a lot
considering he is son to Alfred, brother
to David, and cousin to Randy Newman)!
But among all his Academy Award-nominated scores—to classics like The
Shawshank Redemption, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, Saving Mr. Banks, and
The Road to Perdition—his score to the 1999 Academy Award-winning Best
Picture American Beauty (the first of his many collaborations with director
Sam Mendes) remains his most distinctive. That’s because Newman made
the bold choice of composing a score almost entirely with percussion
instruments, brilliantly intuiting that the lack of melodic resolution in the
film’s themes would echo and amplify what he termed the “moral ambiguity”
of the script. The result was a haunting and wholly original film score that
is instantly recognizable to anyone who has
seen the picture. Real Gone Music is very,
very proud to present this work of genius on
blood red rose vinyl to match the original
album art (here used for the first time on
a vinyl release) and the film’s shattering
conclusion!
SIDE ONE
1. Dead Already
2. Arose
3. Power of Denial
4. Lunch w/ the King
5. Mental Boy
6. Mr. Smarty-Man
7. Root Beer
8. American Beauty
9. Bloodless Freak
10. Choking the Bishop
SIDE TWO
1. Weirdest Home Videos
2. Structure & Discipline
3. Spartanette
4. Angela Undress
5. Marine
6. Walk Home
7. Blood Red
8. Any Other Name
9. Still Dead
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