Brick (soundtrack)

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Brick

Soundtrack
Released	March 21, 2006
Length	1:12:07
Label	Lakeshore Records
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Brick: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2006 film of the same name. It was released on March 21, 2006 by Lakeshore Records. The soundtrack features the original score for the film composed by Nathan Johnson, lead of The Cinematic Underground as well as music by The Velvet Underground, Bunny Berigan, Anton Karas and Kay Armen and a spoken word poem by Nora Zehetner that was featured in the film.

1 Scoring process
2 Track listing
3 Credits
4 Reviews
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Scoring process

This innovative score was composed by Nathan Johnson with additional support and music from The Cinematic Underground. The score harkens back to the style, feel and overall texture of noir films. It features traditional instruments such as the piano, trumpet, and violin, but it also contains unique and invented instrument such as the wine-o-phone, metallophone, tack pianos, filing cabinets, and kitchen utensils, all recorded with one microphone on a battered-up PowerBook.

According to the audio commentary of the Brick DVD, the score was composed almost entirely over iChat, with Rian Johnson playing clips of the movie to Nathan Johnson, who would then score them.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Emily's Theme" – Nathan Johnson

2. "Sister Ray" – The Velvet Underground

3. "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze" – Nora Zehetner

4. "Frankie and Johnny" – Bunny Berigan

5. "I'm in the Middle of a Riddle" – Anton Karas, Kay Armen

6. "Pale Blue Arrow" – Nathan Johnson

7. "Locker 269" – Nathan Johnson

8. "Kara's Theme (The Drama Vamp)" - China Kent

9. "Laura's Theme" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

10. "The Pin in the Night" – Nathan Johnson, Chris Mears & China Kent

11. "Pie House Rats" – Seth Kent

12. "Emily's Theme 2 (The White Rabbit)" – Nathan Johnson

13. "Emily's Theme 3 (Lunch is Difficult)" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

14. "The Dream and the Tunnel" – Nathan Johnson & Chris Mears

15. "Emily's Theme 6 (Reprise)" – Nathan Johnson

16. "A Show of Hands" – Nathan Johnson

17. "Minneapolis" – Nathan Johnson

18. "Front Page News" – Nathan Johnson

19. "Knives in My Eyes" – Nathan Johnson

20. "The Pin's Lair" – Nathan Johnson

21. "Laura's Theme 5 (You Trust Me Now)" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

22. "Ultimate-Tims" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

23. "Turning In" – Nathan Johnson

24. "The Pinivan" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

25. "Dode's Threat/South of T-Street" – Nathan Johnson, Chris Mears, Steve Cowley & China Kent

26. "The Brick of Brock" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

27. "Four O'Clock (Part 1)" – Nathan Johnson & Chris Mears

28. "The Field" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

29. "The Tunnel" – Nathan Johnson & Chris Mears

30. "Tug's Tale (Part 2)" – Nathan Johnson & Chris Mears

31. "Kabuki Confrontation" – Nathan Johnson, Chris Mears & China Kent

32. "Showing Kara's Ace" – Nathan Johnson, Chris Mears & China Kent

33. "Four O'Clock (Part 2)" – Nathan Johnson & Chris Mears

34. "I'm Sorry Brendan" – Nathan Johnson

35. "The Physical Proxy" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

36. "Pale Blue Arrow (Part 2)" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

37. "Building to War" – Nathan Johnson & Chris Mears

38. "War" – Nathan Johnson & Chris Mears

39. "Laura's Theme (Reprise)" – Nathan Johnson & China Kent

40. "The Tale" – Nathan Johnson, China Kent, Chris Mears & Steve Cowley

[edit] Credits

Original Music Produced and Composed by: Nathan Johnson with The Cinematic Underground
Music Editor: Drew Deascentis
Music Supervisor: Joe Rudge
Executive Soundtrack Album Producers for Lakeshore Records: Skip Williamson and Brian McNelis
Art Director: Stephanie Mente
Layout by: Joe Chavez

[edit] Reviews

Jonathan Jarry from Soundtrack.net gave the score four stars saying, "This is a score that proudly stands on the fringe of what is called film music by most people. It will be hailed by its fans; it will be booed by the more conservative people among us. When all is said and done, however, how often are these polarizing scores composed and released? I say revel in Brick's insistent crave for originality before Hollywood hits us with yet another serving of reheated piano-and-strings crap."^[1]