Starred Up Film Music Reworked is a new and expanded revision of the uneasy and evocative score and soundscape for the award-winning film Starred Up by director David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Hallam Foe, Perfect Sense). Created by Mackenzie in collaboration with renowned producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub), and featuring contributions from Belle & Sebastian keyboardist Chris Geddes, actor and musician Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting, Snowpiercer), and saxophonist and music professor Raymond MacDonald (GIO) and Film Maker David Mackenzie.
It will be released on limited-edition vinyl available through select record stores and this website and as an iTunes download on November 6, 2015 via fledgling label Good Grace.
Side One
- PREPARING FOR WAR
- ABANDONMENT
- CROSSING THE LINE
- BACK ON THE WING
- DUNKING
- RESPITE/PARADISE
Side Two
- VIOLENCE
- BETWEEN THESE WALLS
- TOP DOG
- BACK ON THE WING
- SOME KIND OF REDEMPTION
- CREDIT
- CELL THIEF
” pic to the extreme a really great, great piece of music – Vic Galloway, BBC ”
“The score was designed to sit almost imperceptibly in the film as a bed of sound which merged into the prison atmospheres. For the album, we wanted to expand from this to create something that held onto those flavours but that had a life of its own and this is the result. I think it has a strong sense of drama and sometimes is even quite scary, but is also very dreamy and evocative.” – David Mackenzie
“David and I share a good appetite for anarchic little collaborations, we’ve enjoyed a few over the years and so I was keen to take up his invitation to make a response to one of his compositions. I’m always compelled to find an opportunity for subversion so I threw a gentle glockenspiel into his dark disquiet.” – Ewen Bremner
The name comes from a t-shirt for an obscure rehab outfit found at a thrift store in Louisiana. Department Odd is also the home of Good Grace music publishing.
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