Music from the Black Box
OUT NOW / Furcat Records is pleased to announce the release of MUSIC FROM THE BLACK BOX, a collection 17 mainly instrumental tracks from Tony & Olivier nominated composer & sound designer Nick Powell. The album, gathered from Nick's extensive career of writing for stage & screen, finds music reimagined, re-ordered & revisited in order to create a dreamlike & immersive musical odyssey spanning the melodic to the experimental, but always accessible.
The album also features many of Powell’s frequent collaborators including Alex Lee (Goldfrapp, Massive Attack), Lucy Wilkins (Dot Allison, The Tindersticks), Sarah Willson (Belle & Sebastian), & saxophonist Charlotte Glasson.
MUSIC FROM THE BLACK BOX - released now on Bandcamp Spotify & all major Digital platforms . . .
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Disque Bleu/For Chahine
Thinking of my dear friend Chahine Yavroyan, who died in 2018. I hope this piece of music 'DISQUE BLEU / FOR CHAHINE, from the forthcoming album MUSIC FROM THE BLACK BOX captures something of his beautiful, inscrutable spirit that carried through Beirut, Paris, London & his work throughout the world...
Thanks to Charlotte Glasson for fabulous sax & Alex Lee for Guitar/Bass.
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Freefall
Freefall, featuring soaring violin from Lucy Wilkins set to mesmeric piano is the first release from Nick Powell’s upcoming Music From The Black Box - a collection of 17 instrumentals originally written for stages & screens worldwide, but revisited & retouched to create a beautiful & contemplative musical odyssey.
Music From The Black Box will be released on Spotify & Bandcamp on 3 June, 2022.
The Lehman Trilogy
Hailed by The New York Times as “a genuinely epic production”, The Lehman Trilogy is directed by Academy Award®, Tony Award® & Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes with music & sound design by Nick Powell.
The Lehman Trilogy is performing in LA until April 10, 2022 following acclaimed Broadway & West End runs, which began in 2019.
watch - composer Nick Powell & Music Director/Pianist Candida Caldicot discuss the music behind The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Sam Mendes
The Glass Menagerie
starring Amy Adams / directed by Jeremy Herrin / composer Nick Powell
Un Efecto Óptico
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Nick Powell
listen - Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music
This is the fourth collaboration between Spanish film director Juan Cavestany & composer Nick Powell, following on from the films Dispongo De Barcos , 2010, Gente En Sitios, 2013 & Madrid Int., 2020.
“For Un Efecto Óptico we both wanted to carry out a more intense collaboration, to create a more ambitious soundtrack… that ended up occupying more than 90 percent of the footage”, says Juan Cavestany.
According to Nick: “In terms of style, we wanted it to be reminiscent of the atmosphere of old Hollywood melodramas & to transform into something more hypnotic & sinister as the characters’ situation darkens.”
Providing ‘melodrama & terror’, this soundtrack is excessively present throughout the comedy, echoing the characters’ trapped situation…
. . . “Nick is a musician whom I met through the projects of [theater company] Animalario..,” explains Juan Cavestany. “It is a very long, very ambitious soundtrack … & he has done a fascinating thing, with many shapes, many colors, very disparate and very cinematographic in the sense that it has a lot of weight in the film: sometimes it accompanies it & sometimes it has a life of its own ”. from interview with film director Juan Cavestany, by Cesar Noragueda
"Its genre is so unclassifiable that it’s necessary to let yourself be carried away by the magnificent & continuous music that accompanies the film.""… Nick Powell's soundtrack works just as well as Angelo Badalamenti's for Twin Peaks""The Best: the soundtrack by Nick Powell, which accompanies the characters at all times, & is transforming, telling its own story."
Madrid, Int.
'Madrid, Int.', is the first Spanish feature film made during the confinement of Covid-19 in 2020, by Spanish Director Juan Cavestany & featuring the track OUT OF KEY from the album WALLS FALL DOWN by Nick Powell.
The film was planned, shot & finished during lockdown - carried out with the collaboration of one hundred quarantined people.
Moving gently between moments of the every day in a time of lockdown, ‘Madrid, Int.’ beautifully captures recognisable actions & emotions.
"It is a documentary not about the coronavirus, but about the intimate experience of the confinement ...”