Alright, so on Friday, we gave you a first listen of Karen O’s score to “Where The Wild Things Are” by putting a close ear to a ‘WTWTA’ featurette that starred director Spike Jonze and author Maurice Sendak talking about the creativity behind the clip, and it obviously featured some of the original music written for the film. The music is “childlike” as she said it would be and quite wonderful actually; everything that we had hoped for.
Some of it was really uptempo too and even Arcade Fire-like which makes sense given the fact that original test-screenings for the film early last year featured a lot of AF music (/Film spotted the AF similarities when they saw footage of ‘Wild Things’ at Comic-Con this weekend too)
Anyhow, we’ve been tracking the soundtrack rather closely (obviously) and collaborators on the score that O wrote include, members of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Jonze’s brother, producer Squeak-E Clean and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter. All of these players assisted in the recording of this material (however, if you’re looking for “written by” credits, the score is credited to O and Carter Burwell only).
However, there’s even more. Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Folk Implosion collaborator Imaad Wasif helped out musically as well and according to a press release we just received about Wasif’s new album (and confirmed participation in the ‘WTWTA’ recordings), Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Dead Weather also helped out.
That’s an impressive list of musicians that Karen O collected to help her realize her vision and essentially amounts to one big indie super-group. Wonder if she’ll give them a name? Geffen/Interscope is putting out the “Where The Wild Things Are” soundtrack sometime in October, but no deep details other than what we just told you are out yet. That acoustic version of the Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” that is used in the original trailer won’t be featured in the film, but we’re hoping the label makes it a bonus cut on the soundtrack CD.
Wow, quite the group.