The 14th World Soundtrack Awards welcomes young and talented composers
After revealing the nominees for ‘Best Composer’, ‘Best Score’ and ‘Best Song’ earlier, the World Soundtrack Academy also announces the nominees for the 'SABAM Award for Best Young European Composer' and 'Discovery of the Year'.
DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
The WSAcademy wants to reward and stimulate the growth of young and talented composers by awarding the 'Discovery of the Year'. The winner will perform at the 15th WSAwards Concert next year. Check out the Discovery 2014 playlist on Spotify through this link.
Nominees
• Daniel Pemberton: 'Cuban Fury' & 'The Counselor'
• Denis Sanacore: 'The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet'
• Steven Price: 'The World’s End'
• Patrick Cassidy: 'Calvary'
• Jérôme Lemonnier: 'La Chair de Ma Chair' & 'Zum Geburtstag'
BEST YOUNG EUROPEAN COMPOSER
Every year young European film music talent is given the chance to receive the 'SABAM Award For Best Young European Composer'. The candidates were instructed to compose music with a scene of Federico Fellini’s ‘Otto e mezzo’ (1963), who will be honoured during the 41st Film Fest Gent. The winner receives the SABAM Award (Value €2.500) and will follow in the footsteps of Gilles Alonzo, the winner of 2013. The professional jury consists of Patrick Duynslaegher (Artistic Director FFG), Dirk Brossé (composer, conductor and Music Director FFG), Belgian composer Michel Herr and Stefan Rycken (ACE Image Factory).
Nominees
• Hugo Lippens (Belgium)
• Cyril Molesti (France)
• Moritz Schmittat (UK)
SPOTIFY PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD
In addition to the Awards presented by the Academy, the public can also vote for the 'Spotify Public Choice Award' through the website until 15 September and voters can win a Spotify subscription. You can listen to the WSAwards playlist on the Spotify FFGent account.
14th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS CONCERT
Besides the awards ceremony, the American composer Cliff Martinez (ex-drummer of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and cult composer of soundtracks of 'Drive' and 'Spring Breakers'), Dan Romer (Discovery 2013), Francis Lai (Lifetime Achievement Award 2014) and Jef Neve (composer ‘In Flanders Fields') will be the central guests of the evening. Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé will perform a selection of scores of these productive and award-winning artists, supported by film fragments on the big screen.
The 14th WSAwards will take place on 25 October 2014 at Kuipke in Ghent. Tickets are available online from €30 on and €20 for students. All info can be found on worldsoundtrackawards.com.
Martin Carr was the main songwriter of The Boo Radleys. He was the force behind their position as stars of Alan McGee's Creation Records, their chart hits and NME front covers. Tapetes roster is large and varied: lots of local bands, but also some from the US, Scandinavia and Austria, plus, in Lloyd Cole and Bill Pritchard, a couple of hugely accomplished UK artists with deep history and maverick tendencies. Martin Carr fits that bill perfectly: a songwriter whose work is pop but not necessarily populist, and whose trajectory reveals an ambivalent relationship with conventional sensibilities. Indeed, its an issue he grapples with on one of The Breaks keynote songs: "Here I am swimming in the mainstream/I tell my friends I subvert it from within. I tell myself Im happy as I am."
'V' star JANE BADLER sings on newly released JUNKSISTA single 'Live A little'
The German electro duo JUNKSISTA aka Boog and Diana S. are revealing the first excerpt of their forthcoming studio album "High Voltage Confessions" with the "Live A Little" EP.
The EP is the fruit of a very special collaboration of the band with renowned singer, actress and 80's icon star JANE BADLER (remember the sexually charged villain Diana of the cult classic SF television program 'V'?). The song was already picked up to serve as the main theme in FABIO SOARES' new short film "Bitch Popcorn Blood".
The title track was remixed by the international top producer LAYZEE who in his former life was rapper of the 90's Eurodance superstars Mr.President. The single also features an exclusive non-album song, the minimal electro track "Time".
MERCIFUL NUNS are one of the few bands that foster their own unique style which is actually rather cool. Seldom have I encountered such a telling and comprehensive work of art comprising graphics & cover art, stage imagery, lyrics, videos, trailers and still images of the band as that which has become representative of the MERCIFUL NUNS. “Post Goth?” - Artaud’s telling response to the question how the MERCIFUL NUNS’ sound could be defined. Somehow one cannot help but agree with such sentiment. What Artaud Seth, Jawa and Jón Tmoh deliver with METEORA VII is arguably an outstanding work of art, laced with Post-Goth hymns as only the MERCIFUL NUNS can offer. Setting an extraordinarily elevated standard in musical quality, never excessive but always hitting a point of focus, we find ourselves taken back to the mystical places Artaud traversed during his first musical incarnation: GARDEN OF DELIGHT and their seminal album NECROMANTEION IV – ancient Greece and the Hellenic Pantheon.
When listening to METEORA one quickly realises that the contextual lyrical plane recently occupied by Artaud has changed. Surreal and fictionalised events replace otherworldly themes as well as complex and universal questions pertaining to the origins of mankind. We move into a “Soul Room” in the KARMA INN, accompany ELEKTRA along “Concubine Street”, interpret signs & symbols from the future on the PHANTOM WALL, race through life at the SPEED OF LIGHT and lose all earthbound traction whilst exploring curious and strange entities, traverse Eleusinian grounds and observe the spawning of new galaxies until we finally reach an Acheronian place of calm and solitude in A PLACE BEYOND.
Tracklist:
METEORA VII (Digi Pack Edition)
1. ELEKTRA
2. PHANTOM WALL
3. KARMA INN
4. A DAY THAT FADES II
5. SPEED OF LIGHT
6. EULUSIAN GROUND
7. ZERO G
8. A PLACE BEYOND
Live Concerts
01.11 Angloueme (France) - French Nunhood Gathering at LaNuitFantasma
22.11 Mexico City (Mexico) - Mexican Nunhood Gathering at NecroClub
07.02 Sao Paulo (Brasil) - Brasilian Nunhood Gathering at SummerWaveFestival
21.03 Berlin (Germany) - German Nunhood Gathering at DarkSpring
Dawn.
The sky is dark with a soft glow of orange beginning to emerge, the world is quiet and people are still sound asleep. You step out and breathe the cool crisp morning air while your feet stand firm in the soil, wet with morning dew. You're empowered by your recent dreams, you feel pristine and clear: all is now possible.
Dusk.
When the sun is slowly settling over the horizon and a blue florescent glow is all that remains. Stars begin to appear twinkling against the background of a darkening sky. The cool wind begins to blow, flutters your shirt and tousles your hair. The night is about to rise and take the world in its claws...
My name is Mari Kattman and I am the female vocalist for “Mari and The Ghost”. These are just some of the visuals which kept coming to my mind while creating the vocals for our project. The strong, powerful moments when you are alone with your thoughts and all of nature is conspiring with you, to move you. All is pleading to inspire.
My name if Jean-Marc Lederman and you may know me from The Weathermen or Ghost & Writer. The music with Mari is a ride down feelings I usually didn't paint so much with my other projects: intimacy, sensuality, darker yet subtly grooving electronic landscapes.
