The Brothers Bloom. Limited Edition Cast Soundtracks. After scoring Bloom, Nathan made each of the cast a unique soundtrack of their specific cues. This is the cover of Bang Bang’s (Rinko Kikuchi).This is quite possibly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to give this one to Rinko since she didn’t make it up to Toronto. Perhaps I’ll be able to rectify that in Japan
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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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Just received this lovely email from Eric:
On my flight to Tokyo and saw this handsome dude:)
…why, that’s me and Nathan in Brother’s Bloom - mile high club.
Ladies and Gents, I present The Boots (Helmut’s back up band. Also the best worst band from Germany.)
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Bloom Soundtrack Party, New Haven, CT.
Ronen just emailed me this photo from his camera this morning. It was great to cart in everyone from Boston and New York who worked on the score.
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From the Bloom archives. LA, CA
A celebratory dinner near the final days of score editing on Bloom.
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Jonny's thoughts on The Brothers Bloom score.
I recently read Jonny’s thoughts on being a part of the Brothers Bloom scoring experience and I realized that he describes it in words the way Ronen described it in video. Which is to say, better than I could, and totally outside my perspective. If you’re interested in thoughts from one of the core-team, check out my well-spoken friend Jonny Rodgers. Also, check out his amazing solo project!
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On the set of The Brothers Bloom in Belgrade with Joe and Jared. We were filming the opening con “wrap party” scene in a basement bar, dressed as The Best Worst Band From Germany: Helmut and The Boots.
helmut + a boot
photo credit: nathan
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Working on the Bloom score with the amazing Jonny Rodgers, who did much of the excellent guitar work in the film.
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Interview on Chris Oatley’s ArtCast
Just did an interview last week for my friend’s killer podcast about art. Chris Oatley is an illustrator and animator amongst other things, but he loves the idea of mixing disciplines so he invited me on the show to talk about Bloom, Brick, The Cinematic Underground and my thoughts about making things. Have a listen! You might also enjoy his other podcasts where he does cool stuff like a screen capture walkthrough of painting a wookie!
