TheOscar ceremony wrapped an average year overall for film music, with Ludwig Goransson taking the academy award for best score for 2023. Undoubtedly, his score for Chris Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER was a well-crafted score albeit based on a not so original idea, the use of ascending-descending tonic scales in order to musically introduce a complex character and a…

The slasher movie sub-genre didn’t arrive with a roar; it crept in on a whisper. Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” (1974) laid the groundwork—intimate spaces violated, the killer’s-eye gaze, victims isolated and helpless towards a killer force so menacing that becomes unbeatable. The movie wasn’t a hit machine, but it defined the characteristics of a new form. Four…

The great composer and maestro Ennio Morricone, was perhaps the most prolific and busy composer of film music during his productive years. He is probably the only film composer that retains even after his passing such a dedicated club of collectors of his music. Since the late 60s, the search for his soundtracks attract an…

I still remember the first time i saw the cover of the Japanese edition of the soundtrack to THE SAND PEBBLES. The impression was striking. Perhaps there are many of you soundtrack collectors and film music fans who are more fond of the American release album cover, but my aesthetics’ bells ring ferociously when i…