Contagion
Added on Friday, September 22, 2017 Posted by Philippe Mouchon
Real Gone Music presents Contagion. Stretching over Some Ten Projects (e.g. Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Traffic, Solaris), the Collaboration Between Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers Drummer Cliff Martinez and Film Director Steven Soderbergh Has Been One of the Most Fruitful in Cinema History But Perhaps the Greatest Martinez-Soderbergh Soundtrack Is the One to 2011’s Contagion
Stretching over Some Ten Projects (e.g. Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Traffic, Solaris), the Collaboration Between Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers Drummer Cliff Martinez and Film Director Steven Soderbergh Has Been One of the Most Fruitful in Cinema History
But Perhaps the Greatest Martinez-Soderbergh Soundtrack Is the One to 2011’s Contagion
Because Soderbergh Re-Cut the Film Three Times, Martinez Ended Up Incorporating Orchestral and Electronic Elements into a Rhythmic, Propulsive Score
The Most Chilling, Chill-Out Electronica You’ve Ever Heard, Simultaneously Hypnotic and Horrifying
First-Ever Vinyl Release Comes in a Gatefold Cover Featuring Production Stills
Gold & Red “Biohazard” Vinyl Edition
Limited to 1200 Copies
Sure to Make You Schedule a Flu Shot This Fall
Former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Cliff Martinez’s long-standing collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh ranks right up there with some of the other great composer-director teams in film history, like Bernard Herrmann-Alfred Hitchcock and Ennio Morricone-Sergio Leone, and his 2011 score for the disaster blockbuster Contagion is among his best work. Oddly, it owes some of its uniqueness to the fact that Soderbergh radically recut the film three different times, causing Martinez to adjust the score on the fly, first starting with a more conventional score indebted to thrillers like Marathon Man and The French Connection, then moving in a more dream-like, Tangerine Dream direction, before settling on a sound that incorporated orchestral and electronic timbres into highly propulsive and rhythmic framework. It’s like the most chilling “chill-out” electronica you’ve ever heard, simultaneously hypnotic and horrifying…and for its first-ever vinyl release, we at Real Gone Music have fashioned a gatefold album cover featuring film production stills housing a limited gold and red “biohazard” starburst vinyl edition limited to 1200 copies.
Doctors at the United States Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization rush to contain the outbreak of a new, deadly virus. As they search for a cure, they track the virus’ source to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, as they try to keep the death count from climbing, it’s not just the disease they have to worry about: False rumors and civil unrest travel the globe faster than the killer bug. Starring Academy Award® winners Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Marion Cotillard, and Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominees Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne. Also starring John Hawkes and directed and produced by Academy Award-winner Steven Soderbergh. (Warner Bros.)