The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to The County, with music by Valgeir Sigurðsson, will be released on January 10th 2020. exclusively from Bedroom Community. The 15-track album features eerily beautiful and scene-setting melodies created by the Icelandic musician.
The drama had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section. The County is the follow-up to Grímur Hákonarson’s Festival de Cannes Award-winning debut Rams and stars actors Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, as well as Þorsteinn Bachmann.
“Director Grímur Hákonarson and I have worked together a few times in the past, so it helped that we already had a dialog and a fluidity in the way we work together. First I watched the film a few times, and then I turned off the screen and just wrote music in response to what I had seen. I often do this because I want to make a score that flows with its own narrative. On Grímur’s suggestion, we used a lot of synths and electronic textures, and also used some of the real sounds from the film for the score. There is an obnoxious milking-robot that features quite heavily, as well as other sounds from... more
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releases January 10, 2020
SCORE COMPOSED & PRODUCED BY VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON
Ólafur Björn Ólafsson: Drums, Percussion
Daniel Pioro: Violin
Liam Byrne: Viola da gamba
Óskar Guðjónsson: Saxophone
Francesco Fabris: Modular Synth, Programming
Valgeir Sigurðsson: Keyboards, Electronics, Piano
Recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík by Francesco Fabris & Valgeir Sigurðsson
Arranged & Mixed by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Assistant: Harry Smith
Location recordings from The County by Björn Viktorsson, directed by Grímur Hákonarson
P&C Bedroom Community 2020
Published by Faber Music Publishing LTD
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