Silva Screen Records presents Miguel D’Oliveira’s selected themes from the Louis Theroux documentary series.

Silva Screen Records presents Miguel D’Oliveira’s selected themes from the Louis Theroux documentary series.

Dominated by figurative and curious melodies, the contemplative soundtrack was written for a small ensemble to support Louis Theroux’s intimate and thoughtful portraits of America’s and UK’s alternative life choices.
Featuring idiosyncratic, distinctive sounding instruments, such as alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, sax, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, piano, composer Miguel D’Oliveira has created an inimitable sound world for Theroux’s World renowned authored documentaries.

The tracks on this album come from seven Louis Theroux films, first broadcast on BBC Two between 2018 and 2020. Handpicked by the composer, the album features music themes from the BAFTA winning series Altered States, encompassing themes of birth, love and death, as well as Theroux’s latest documentaries about consent, sex, religion and motherhood.
Curiously compelling, observant and cordial, the programmes offer collision between Theroux’s rational approach and emotional themes and subjects.

Composer Miguel D’Oliveira is a two times winner of the Jerry Goldsmith Award for best documentary soundtrack and was twice nominated for the prestigious IFMCA award. After graduating with an MA in Composition for Film at the NFTS in 2007, Miguel’s first commissions included various television documentaries before landing the job of scoring a 5-part docudrama The Queen for C4.
Since then, Miguel has honed his craft writing music for documentaries and documentary series, including The Bible: A History (C4), Battle of Britain (BBC1), Simon Schama’s Shakespeare (BBC), The Met: Policing London (BBC), First Dates (C4). Miguel has also written for drama productions, including the 6-part mini-series Homefront (ITV), based on the experiences of army wives in the UK, and two episodes of Merlin (BBC).
Most recently, Miguel released an album with the original television soundtrack to Michael Palin in North Korea.

More info at: Official website Silva Screen Records