Various - Way Of The Morris – Original Picture Soundtrack

The OST Label is a new label set up by Jonny Trunk specifically to issue interesting and contemporary film music. This album is the perfect first release.  

Music by Adrian Corker from the award winning film by Tim Plester and Rob Curry.
*Way of the Morris is a contemporary film exploring the roots of Morris Dancing in the village of Adderbury. The soundtrack release is a wondrous sonic trip into rural England, utilizing field recordings, actual sound from the film and inventive modern compositions.

The composer is Adrian Corker, an experienced musician and soundtrack man. His work in the past has involved both solo work and inspiring collaborations, co composing for over 15 films beginning with the gangster movie “Face” directed by Antonia Bird and starring Ray Winstone. On the other side of the Atlantic he has composed for Hollywood films such as Ravenous alongside Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn, as well writing the screo for the European art house film “Three Degrees Colder”, performed by the Nuremburg Symphony Orchestra.

Away from the screen he has recently co-written a new experimental piece “What Happens” with John Matthias and Andy Prior for piano, voice, violin and electronics and is also musically involved with Peter Greenaway's new film “Goltzius and the Pelican Company”. He is a founding member of sound/film collective 4Way Lab.

The score for “Way Of The Morris” was performed by Adrian using a mixed bag of both ancient and modern instruments, a seventies Japanese tape delay and a laptop. It was all later mixed by David Prior, who is a sound artist winner of this years PRS New Music Prize.

The album also features performances from amongst others the Adderbury Village Morris Men, Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention and some birds in a field in Oxfordshire. The feathered kind, of course.

Tracklisting:

1.Adderbury Creation Myth
2.Bells And Tape 1
3.18 Frames Per Second
4.Sanke Time Rhythm
5.Birds And Tape 1
6.Black Joke
7.C-Minor
8.No Mans Land
9.The Native Dances
10.Springtide V2
11.Happy Man
12.Moresque
13.Stourton Wake 1
14.Birds And Tape 2
15.Shepherd’s Hey
16.Stripped Willow
17.Constant Billy
18.Chinese Whispers
19.Birds And Tape 3
20.Beneath And Ironstone Sky
21.Bells And Tape 2
22.Endispiece

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