Music Monday - Bloom Intro (Rough Electric Version)
You know, for someone who spends most of their time making music, I realized I don’t post a lot of it on Tumblr. So I’m gonna start throwing a little something up on Mondays. Maybe some behind-the-scenes stuff, early sketches, or something from a band that I’m producing and think you should know about.
I’ll start with an early track I just found from the Bloom score. This comes from the Overture, before it was filled out (You can hear the final “Brothers In A One Hat Town” piece here).
The way I did this project involved much more of a “building” process than a traditional score where you write it, record it and release it. I recorded hundreds of different tracks with the key instrumentalists and then began building and editing. As things came together, I would send ideas to Rian and we would talk about the direction before adding new elements.
Often, I would get takes of a few different instruments playing the lead melody lines so I had options for different versions as the entire track developed. In this rough track, you get to hear Jonny Rodgers’ great electric guitar work in a much more stripped down way.
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Here’s a little extra that we couldn’t put on the DVD.
This is a very crude animatic of the opening childhood sequence from The Brothers Bloom (COUGH now available for rental on DVD and BluRay COUGH) that I created early in the pre-production process. As will be immediately and humiliatingly evident, I did all the voices myself. The artwork consists of storyboards by the very talented Daniele Auber, and it was all put together on my laptop in Final Cut Pro.
Minimal resources, very slapdash, but it ended up being an invaluable tool in showing both business and creative folks we were courting how the whole thing would come together.
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(Stephen’s) Marmalade Sour, The Brothers Bloom Soundtrack Party. New Haven, CT.
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3 oz. Cachaça
1 oz. Lemon Juice
1 oz. Simple Syrup
2 dashes Fee’s Orange Bitters
1 egg white
2 T. Orange Marmalade (or peach jam)
This is my new favorite drink, based on Jamie Boudreau’s amazing Marmalade Sour. I like it with a bit more sweetness, but lets face it - Cachaça is amazing, any way you serve it. I put it on the menu for the Brothers Bloom cocktail party and it seemed to be the perfect drink to represent Stephen. A bit sweet, a bit smoky, a bit of boisterous fun.
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The Bang Bang. From The Brothers Bloom Score Party in New Haven.
Campari, Lemon, and Brandy flambé.
When you’re done with something, blow it up.
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Ahh, now here’s a good pic of the menu for our Bloom Soundtrack party last Friday. Thanks Kim!
The amazing Cocktail Menu from The Brothers Bloom Party in New Haven
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I admit I am proud of all this.This is my favorite Bloom tickets shot yet. (Admittedly, It’s not a large category, but this one wins because of all the links:
Seth’s photo of two tickets to Rian’s movie, in front of Marke’s digital booklet for the soundtrack, which shows Zach’s illustration of the Diamond Dog, in front of Ronen’s photo of China playing Nathan’s score for the Dog, in front of a rough cut of Rian’s movie, showing Adrien and Maximillian (as the Dog). Wow.
Link win.
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Bloom tickets from last night. Kim and I watched with the iPhone MP3 Live Commentary Track.
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Apparently I’m gonna have to see this fantastic movie for a second time.
I’m doing this in a week at the Soundtrack Opening Party down in New Haven. I already listened to it once without the movie… which only made me want to listen again with the movie.
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Nathan Johnson (plus special Jared Geller cameo!) with Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo in the “Deutsche Mark” con-wrap party scene.
A page from the 18p digital booklet I made for Nathan Johnson’s score for The Brothers Bloom.
Get them all with the album on iTunes!
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A Plan.
A page from the 18p digital booklet I made for Nathan Johnson’s score for The Brothers Bloom.
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Cackle Bladder. A page from the 18p digital booklet I made for Nathan Johnson’s score for The Brothers Bloom.
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