The Peasants (Milan Records)
Added on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Posted by Philippe Mouchon
Milan Records has released The Peasants (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Łukasz “L.U.C.” Rostkowski and Rebel Babel Film Orchestra. Available everywhere the album features an original score by award-winning producer, vocalist, composer, songwriter Łukasz “L.U.C.”
Milan Records has released The Peasants (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Łukasz “L.U.C.” Rostkowski and Rebel Babel Film Orchestra.
Available everywhere the album features an original score by award-winning producer, vocalist, composer, songwriter Łukasz “L.U.C.”
Rostkowski and his international Rebel Babel Film Orchestra for the painted animation film based on Polish writer Władysław Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name.
For the score, L.U.C. drew inspiration from the film’s Polish origins, utilizing rare Slavic folk instruments, like the Belarussian Bagpipes, to build beautifully expansive themes and bringing together a special line-up of musicians, including a Ukrainian Refugee Choir, for his transcultural big band Rebel Babel Film Orchestra to record the album.
Making its debut today in celebration of the film’s US theatrical release is a never-before-heard version of album closer “End of Summer” performed in English by Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua.
Originally making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Peasants debuts in theaters from Sony Pictures Classics.
About The Peasants :
The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colourful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.
When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.
The Peasants is the most popular Polish film of the past four years and the biggest box office for a Polish animation in Poland of all time.
It is the follow up film by film-making couple DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman to their 2018 worldwide hit, Loving Vincent. The Peasants novel is filled with descriptions of nature, its mechanisms, delight in life, the earth and people.
To tell this epic story, creators of the film decided to use the painting animation technique known from Loving Vincent.
Each frame of the movie is hand-painted by a group of over 200 artists, who created more than 40 000 oil frames.
It lengthened the process of making the film from about two years to more than five, but thanks to painting animation rather than mere repainting of frames, it was possible to emphasize and saturate emotions and beauty of nature in changing seasons in the film.
About Łukasz “L.U.C.” Rostkowski :
Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski is an award wining composer, music producer, author of multimedia spectacles, tv shows, series and films. His Sleepoholic music was chosen by the Oscar winners Emmanuel Lubezki and Alejandro Inarritu to their special VR project Carne y Arena awarded a special Oscar at the Academy's 9th Annual Governor's Awards.
He's an author of many multimedia spectacles and has worked with famous composers (Krzysztof Penderecki, Leszek Możdżer, Jan AP Kaczmarek), musicians (Mum, Katie Melua, Promoe, Hot 8 Brass Band, DJ Qbert) and animators like Oscar winners Zbigniew Rybczyński and Tomasz Bagiński. Rostkowski is an author of the music score for the latest film of Loving Vincent creators - DK and Hugh Welchman.
About Katie Melua :
Katie Melua is one of Britain's most successful musical artists, having sold in excess of 11 million albums and received over 56 platinum awards. She is originally from Tbilisi, Georgia and moved to the UK at a young age where she studied at the acclaimed Brit School of Performing Arts.
It is her extraordinary voice, and the ability to truly inhabit a song, that has been her trademark since the young 19 year old school graduate first appeared in 2003 performing The Closest Thing To Crazy. One of the UK’s highest-selling female recording artists of all time, Katie has released 8 top 10 studio albums – ‘Call Off The Search’, ‘Piece By Piece’, ‘Pictures’, ‘The House’, ‘Secret Symphony’, ‘Ketevan’, 2016’s self-produced, critically acclaimed ‘In Winter’ and most recently ‘Album No. 8’.
Her latest album ‘Love and Money’ is out now via BMG. Katie is an accomplished songwriter, composer, and arranger and her songs have seen her tour globally to high critical acclaim.
A constantly in-demand touring artist, Melua enchants her audiences worldwide with her uniquely powerful and captivating voice, flawless performances, and charming personality.
( - Sony Music Masterworks - Milan Records - )