New Releases From Lakeshore Records

Welcome To The Rileys and The Bird Can't Fly

Lakeshore Records will release the Welcome to the Rileys -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available digitally and in stores on November 2, 2010.  Marc Streitenfeld (American Gangster, Robin Hood) composed the original music.  The soundtrack also features songs by Ying Yang Twins, Kitty Davis and Lewis, Odetta, Shiny Toy Guns, Joe Simon, and The Kills.
 
German-born composer Marc Streitenfeld is known for his work on numerous high profile Hollywood feature films.  Streitenfeld has composed the music for four consecutive Ridley Scott films, which include most recently Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, the BAFTA nominated score for American Gangster, the thriller Body of Lies and the romantic comedy A Good Year.  In 2008, Streitenfeld won the prestigious World Soundtrack Award’s “Discovery of the Year” at the Ghent International Film Festival.
 
For Welcome to the Rileys, Streitenfeld created a beautiful intimate score. This banjo-driven score ranges from a light and playful feel to a dark and intense, spooky tone. Streitenfeld played most of the instruments himself on the score.  'Jake Scott has a very sophisticated knowledge of music. It was a rewarding experience to work on the film,” says Streitenfeld.
 
Welcome to the Rileys is a powerful drama about finding hope in the most unusual of places. Once a happily married and loving couple, Doug and Lois Riley (James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo) have grown apart since losing their teenage daughter eight years prior. Leaving his agoraphobic wife behind to go on a business trip to New Orleans, Doug meets a 17-year-old runaway (Kristen Stewart) and the two form a platonic bond. For Lois and Doug, what initially appears to be the final straw that will derail their relationship, turns out to be the inspiration they need to renew their marriage.
 
Looking to get away, Doug goes on a business trip to New Orleans. He meets Mallory (Kristen Stewart), a teenage runaway.  The opportunity to care and protect Mallory supplants the void Doug's marriage has left in his heart, and brings new meaning to his life. Doug decides to sell his business and stay in New Orleans to give Mallory the attention and help she can't bring herself to ask for. Lois overcomes her phobia and ventures to New Orleans to reclaim her marriage. What initially seems to be the final straw that will derail their marriage turns out to be the inspiration for Lois and Doug to renew their love for each other.

Tracklisting
01. Welcome To The Rileys – Marc Streitenfeld
02. Rebirth – Marc Streitenfeld
03. I Am Here – Marc Streitenfeld
04. Walking In New Orleans – Marc Streitenfeld
05. Alive – Marc Streitenfeld
06. Trouble Sleeping – Marc Streitenfeld
07. Private Parts – Marc Streitenfeld
08. Headstone – Marc Streitenfeld
09. Time – Marc Streitenfeld
10. On The Road – Marc Streitenfeld
11. Nobody's Little Girl – Marc Streitenfeld
12. End Title - Walking Reprise – Marc Streitenfeld
13. Going Up The Country - Kitty Daisy And Lewis
14. Go Down, Sunshine - Odetta
15. Teenager’s Prayer - Joe Simon
16. Le Disko - Shiny Toy Guns
17. U.R.A. Fever - The Kills
18. Jigglin - Ying Yang Twins

Samuel Goldwyn Films and Destination Films present Welcome To The Rileys in select theaters on October 29, 2010.  Welcome to the Rileys – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be released digitally and in stores on November 2, 2010. 



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Lakeshore Records will release the The Bird Can’t Fly -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available digitally on November 2, 2010. Mark Kilian (La Mission, Rendition) and Paul Hepker (Rendition, Tsotsi) composed the original music.

South African-born Kilian started his music career as a jazz pianist working in and around his homeland. He played with the Brubecks, Shirley Bassey, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Airto Moreira and many local jazz and rock outfits and also played a lot of musical theater. He started working in the Hollywood movie business immediately upon graduation from USC, writing, orchestrating, conducting and programming on movies like The Matrix: Reloaded, Species, Copycat and The Animatrix. His most recent film is The Ward with legendary horror director John Carpenter. Others include Traitor, La Mission, and Before the Rains. His TV work includes ABC’s Daybreak and Jake In Progress, Fox’s Kitchen Confidential and countless high profile TV commercials for Coke, Amex, Toyota, Microsoft and the memorable Apple iMac spinning color spot.

Paul Hepker was born in Zimbabwe, raised in South Africa. He trained as a concert pianist and worked as a Musical Director at the National Theatres in Pretoria and Cape Town. In the mid-1990s he toured the world as a member of the Grammy-nominated band Johnny Clegg and Savuka, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in composing for stage and screen. Hepker has composed the music for the documentaries Into The Light, and Where The Water Meets The Sky, as well as numerous Discovery, Animal Planet, History and National Geographic Channel series including Deadliest Catch, IRT Deadliest Roads, Iditarod and Raw Nature. As a member of acclaimed LA theater group Circle X, Paul garnered numerous awards for his Composition and Musical Direction in stage productions such as Grendel, Laura Comstock’s Bag-Punching Dog and the inaugural Boston Court theater production, Romeo and Juliet: Antebellum, New Orleans, 1838.

Kilian and Hepker previously worked together on Tsotsi, which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2005, and Rendition – both with director Gavin Hood.

The musical score for The Bird Can’t Fly combines the same spacious exploration of world music instruments and memorable themes that has typified their previous collaborations. Kilian and Hepker have created a sensitive, yet powerful aural backdrop for the film; their use of flutes and distant voices, over a bed of buzzing and shifting slide guitars, lends an evocative and unsettled ambience that occasionally breaks out into bursts of hi-octane percussive muscle. This collaboration completes a musical trilogy that showcases their lyricism, inventiveness and sensitivity to complex and emotional material. The soundtrack includes a number of songs written specifically for the film, as well as a New Orleans-style funeral march featuring the voice of Inara George.

The Bird Can’t Fly is a poetical drama written and directed by Dutch novelist Threes Anna: Melody (Barbara Hershey) returns home to Fairlands for the funeral of her estranged daughter June. But the town has almost disappeared under the encroaching desert. She also has to confront the fact that she has a 10 year old grandson, River, about whose existence she knows nothing. Melody decides to take River away with her but he is resistant. He has worked out an ambitious plan to survive, by breeding the ostriches he and his mother used to feed. River’s father, Scoop, an idle musician and the town's postman, wants Melody to leave because he has a secret to hide. A series of confrontations ensues until Melody discovers the truth. It's only when a sandstorm forces Melody and River to take shelter together, that Melody faces some painful facts from her past, which allows both of them to reach an understanding and to begin a new future together.

The Bird Can’t Fly was originally released in 2007. It earned The City of Utrecht Film Prize for Best Dutch Debut, and was called an “impressive directorial debut” by Hollywood Reporter. The Bird Can’t Fly – Original Motion Picture Score on Lakeshore Records will be released digitally on November 2, 2010