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13 tracks | 42 minutes
Released Mar 2004
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:47 Arthouse BUY MP3 03:47 Arthouse "GIFT MP3" 03:47 Arthouse
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:53 On The Occasion of Falling Rain BUY MP3 04:53 On The Occasion of Falling Rain "GIFT MP3" 04:53 On The Occasion of Falling Rain
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:50 In The House of Blue Lights BUY MP3 03:50 In The House of Blue Lights "GIFT MP3" 03:50 In The House of Blue Lights
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:17 Santa Fe BUY MP3 03:17 Santa Fe "GIFT MP3" 03:17 Santa Fe
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:00 Culpepper BUY MP3 03:00 Culpepper "GIFT MP3" 03:00 Culpepper
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:22 Through The Door BUY MP3 02:22 Through The Door "GIFT MP3" 02:22 Through The Door
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:06 Tempo Nova BUY MP3 03:06 Tempo Nova "GIFT MP3" 03:06 Tempo Nova
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Faded Dreams BUY MP3 02:54 Faded Dreams "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Faded Dreams
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:46 The Heat BUY MP3 01:46 The Heat "GIFT MP3" 01:46 The Heat
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:18 A Shooting BUY MP3 02:18 A Shooting "GIFT MP3" 02:18 A Shooting
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:28 James Dean Portrait BUY MP3 02:28 James Dean Portrait "GIFT MP3" 02:28 James Dean Portrait
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Eclectic soundtrack music from arthouse and major films ranging from edgy and beat driver to haunting and piercingly beautiful
Bio / Background
A Whore's Diary
Review from FilmScore Monthly
****1/2
The title for this compilation by film composer Mark Governor is derived from a question-and-answer session during the premiere of the film version of Notes from Underground (1995) during which a tactful student asked Governor how being a "Hollywood whore" affected his ability to write serious music. Rather than inviting the woman to eat his shorts, Governor replied that he thought the regimen greatly improved his work.
Governor opens the album with a specially composed piece called "Arthouse", a blend of baroque and minimalist sensibilities with percussion, and it's an apt encapsulation of his overall style.
↓ more ↓"On the Occasion of Falling Rain" from Notes from Underground balances cymbalom (ingeniously suggesting the Russian origins of the story which were left out of the modern adaptation), a melancholy,wordless female vocal, and marimba, among other instruments, in creating a compelling mood of isolation and sadness, while the exotic-sounding "In the House of Blue Lights" lends an ironic tone to the protagonist's journey into a house of ill-repute. The title music to Santa Fe is a good-natured, Dave Grusin-like tune for slide guitar,recorder and xylophone, while "Culpepper" combines glistening electronic chords,vaguely eerie, church-choir-like vocals and percussion to underscore a flashback sequence from Santa Fe involving a Waco-like religious cult massacre.
For the Hollywood documentary Faded Dreams, Governor composed a moody bit of saxophone blues over synth chords and piano. Governor went the Michael Mann route with some preliminary work on the director's Heat, with pulsating electronic rhythms, two cellos and two guitars. A chase sequence from the movie Jamaica Heat ("The Shooting") sounds like what you might get if you crossed Jerry Goldsmith's percussive low-end piano action music with Mychael Danna's gamelan music from The Ice Storm.
Also incuded is an unusual bit of horror music for Pet Sematery 2 which plays anguished,building strings and choir over Native American percussion; music from a documentary on James Dean; a composition for na LA-based dance troupe; and several pieces Governor composed strictly for himself. It's an intriguing album that supports Governor's assertion that music for independent films can be preferable to a lot of the mainstream product out there.
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