As faithful readers of the Playlist will know, we’ve reported that musician/composer and soundtrack music supervisor Brian Reitzell (Sofia Coppola’s go-to soundtrack guy) has composed the score for the upcoming horror film, “30 Days of Night.”
While Reitzell – who has helped the musical tastemaking of “Lost In Translation,” “The Virgin Suicides,” “Marie Antoinette” and collaborated with Explosions In The Sky and Spoon for “Friday Night Lights” and “Stranger Than Fiction” respectively – has composed original music for films before, this is the first time he’s composed a film’s entire score (Reitzell will also always have the estimable distinction of coaxing My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields out of hermitude to compose original music for “Lost In Translation,” and then by proxy to speak to the press for the first time in almost a decade).l
For the ’30 Days’ score (what might seem like an unusual choice of film given his past work), Reitzell gerry rigged up a pottery wheel and affixed items like drum mallets and sticks to record weird and frightening sounds.
“I was trying to figure out the different sounds and colors and instruments to use,” Reitzell explained in a press release. “I thought if someone came at me with an ax or was trying to kill me or eat me, that was going to be such a horrific experience and was going to be totally new and unfamiliar, so I didn’t think what I was going to hear was something like an orchestra.”
The experiment yielded excellent results, but was apparently pretty dangerous. “The pottery wheel can spin up to 280 rpm,” he said. “You have to wear goggles and body armor. I was scared to death.”
Don’t you love having two street dates? The album goes digital on October 16 and physical CDs (what is the hell is that?) is due on the 30th. We’ve exclusively scored the tracklist below.
Reitzell’s next move will be reteaming with his breezy French cohorts Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air to compose a non-existent soundtrack. “It’s probably a sci-fi- type film, but it’s very emotional, maybe someone trapped in a spaceship kind of thing.We’re conceptualizing it now. It might be that we take a book or take some images and just start to score to those images and then a film will find us.”
“30 Days Of Night” Soundtrack tracklist
01. Prelude / Last Day of Sun
02. Girl Bait
03. Muffin Monster
04. Soon There Will Be Just 5
05. Vampires On The Horizon
06. They Didn’t Take Me
07. Barrow Burns
08. Ditchwiched
09. Vampired Johnny
10. Gus Loses His Head
11. You Wanna Play With Me Now?
12. The Bloody Fruits Of Barrow
13. Eben Shoots Up
14. The one Who Fights
15. Daybreak
16. Overture
17. Underture
can you help me find the name of the song at the end of the movie 30 days of night, when that girl is holding the guy as he burns as the sun comes up thanks
It’s not the last track in the score listed above? I honestly haven’t seen the movie, but if the movie is mostly score (and not songs) the cd tracklist is generally in the order that the score material appears in the film.
The original trailer had a Muse song in it though. Possibly that’s it? It’s hard for me to say since I haven’t seen the film.
Try the IMDB message boards, those nerds are generally good about listing minutia like that.
THANKS GUYS BUT NO LUCK ITS NOT PART OF THE SCORE JUST A SONG THEY STUCK IN THERE,
Mogwai – Auto Rock thats the song
Awesome, nice work.
its not mogwai, auto rock- though it has a very similar build up and is just piano and drums
I just listened to the movie, and I’m pretty sure it is auto rock…. they could of edited it or sampled a specific part of the song though..
It sounded to me a lot like “Yeha-Noha” (Wishes Of Happiness And Prosperity) by Sacred Spirit.
Its call “Pity and Fear” by Deathcab for cutie…they just adapted it for the movie…minus lyrics and crazy drums =]
The song at the end of 30DON, where Stella is holding Eben, is “Apocalypse Please” by Muse. after much searching for the song myself, the song that most relates is the one I stated, given to you by The Playlist via sampling and editing the track! =)Not DCFC or Mogwai guys!
Daybreak by Brian Reitzel
I did minimal research, and came across this. Seriously.
Nope, Its Mogwai Auto Rock for sure. Daybreak is just a small clip, but Mogwai does the song.