Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
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Back Lot Music presents the release of DreamWorks Animation's Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, with music by Grammy® Award winning composer Stephanie Economou and original songs by Mimi Webb and Freya Ridings.

Back Lot Music presents the release of DreamWorks Animation's Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, with music by Grammy® Award winning composer Stephanie Economou and original songs by Mimi Webb and Freya Ridings.

The soundtrack’s first single by Mimi Webb, “This Moment,” dropped last Friday on June 23 along with a lyric video on Peacock Kids’ YouTube channel. The original end title song “Rise” by Freya Ridings is now available.

With Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, DreamWorks Animation dives into the turbulent waters of high school with a hilarious, heartfelt action comedy about a shy teenager who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens. The film, released by Universal Pictures, hits theaters nationwide today in North America, and the album is available everywhere digital music is sold and streamed.
Fresh off her Avalon stage performance at Glastonbury last weekend, Freya Ridings contributes her first song for a motion picture in the anthemic end title “Rise,” which will leave the audience clapping along as the film ends. After attending the world premiere of Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken on Wednesday [Official press photo here] Ridings goes on to play Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 5 and will be on tour in the UK through early October.

About The Score And Stephanie Economou

Aiming to craft a unique sonic palette for the film’s score, composer Stephanie Economou (Jupiter’s Legacy, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok) found her chief musical inspiration for Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken in the rich underwater world. “The idea of dream pop/shoegaze came into my head while I was reading the script,” Economou says. “There’s something about the washy and bubbly textures, guitars through modulation effects pedals, reverb-y vocals, and vintage synths that really capture the essence of water to me. My goal was to make the music as immersive and arresting as the visuals.” That kernel of an idea ultimately became the catalyst for Economou discovering the sound of the score, which incorporates elements of cinematic synth, setting the tone for life on land and at sea.

Economou composed roughly 70 minutes of music for the film, employing a wide range of featured instruments to make the score feel as singular and unique as Ruby Gillman herself. In addition to electric and acoustic guitars by performer Jon Monroe, Economou utilized electroacoustic harp, conchs, didgeridoo, omnichord and accordion.

The composer wanted Ruby’s life on land to feel like an ordinary teenage existence, which is why Ruby’s theme at home and school leans more indie pop. It’s when Ruby goes underwater and becomes a giant kraken that Economou leaned into the ethereal world of cinematic dream pop. “It’s like a gateway is opened,” Economou says. “I wanted the music to be in step with how she is discovering this new world and her place in it.”

Economou designed a specific motif for the moments when Ruby’s bioluminescent tentacles light up: a harp gesture that is run through echo pedals and a granular looper, performed and curated by the brilliant Emily Hopkins. “The immersive nature of the environments and lighting details really inspired me to harness some less traditional sonic tools and collaborate with unique specialist performers,” Economou says. For the live choir, Economou enlisted the score’s vocal soloist, Ari Mason, to create an original kraken language for the film.

About Freya Ridings

The lightning-in-a-bottle emergence of Freya Ridings with ‘Lost Without You’ and her self-titled debut album made her one of the surprise international success stories of recent years. The single made Freya the first female artist to have an entirely self-written Top 10 hit since Kate Bush’s original release of ‘Running Up That Hill’ in 1985, and in the process set-up her debut album for immense global success: a #3 UK chart position, a billion+ streams, and a phenomenal 47 Platinum and Gold certifications from all around the world.

About Mimi Webb

Mimi Webb projects a voice as magnetic, massive and magical as her personality. As “the girl next door” with a hell of a vocal range, she’s quick to laugh, will let you know precisely what’s on her mind, and isn’t afraid to be heard. Originally hailing from the UK town of Canterbury, the pop singer and songwriter turns up the volume on every emotion with skyscraping runs and open-hearted honesty.

In just two years Mimi has surpassed 1 billion global streams, amassed an international following with multiple chart-topping tracks including “House on Fire,” “Good Without” and “Red Flags” and was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2023 BRIT Awards. Mimi released her critically acclaimed debut album Amelia on March 3, 2023, which debuted at #4 on the UK albums chart and garnered praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, V Magazine, Billboard, British GQ, and more. Mimi has toured across the world and performed at The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, The Graham Norton Show and ELLEN. She will continue her run of festival dates this summer with appearances at Lollapalooza Paris, Reading and Leeds Festival, Austin City Limits, Isle of MTV and more.

About Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Sometimes the hero you are meant to be lies just beneath the surface.

This summer, DreamWorks Animation dives into the turbulent waters of high school with a hilarious, heartfelt action comedy about a shy teenager who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens and that her destiny, in the depths of the oceans, is bigger than she ever dreamed.

Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young- White, Ralph Breaks the Internet), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom (Oscar® nominee Toni Collette, Knives Out), has forbade Ruby from ever getting in the water.
But when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother (Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda), the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas.

The Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power- hungry mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons. There’s one major, and immediate, problem with that: The school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea (Emmy winner Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek) just happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken stars an extraordinary cast that includes Emmy winner Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead) as Ruby’s supportive dad, Emmy nominee Sam Richardson (Veep) as Ruby’s enthusiastic uncle and Blue Chapman (Council of Dads) as Ruby’s cool little brother.

Directed by Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Kirk DeMicco (Vivo, The Croods) and produced by Kelly Cooney Cilella, p.g.a. (Trolls World Tour, Trolls), with Faryn Pearl (The Croods: A New Age, Trolls World Tour) serving as co- director, the film features a comedic powerhouse supporting cast, including Emmy nominee Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth), Emmy nominee Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), Liza Koshy (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Work It), Ramona Young (Never Have I Ever), Eduardo Franco (Stranger Things), Echo Kellum (Arrow), and award- winning social media creator and podcaster Emma Chamberlain (Anything
Goes podcast).

The film is written by Emmy winning South Park producer Pam Brady (Lady Dynamite) and Brian C Brown (Briarpatch) & Elliott DiGuiseppi (Lucy in the Sky). The executive producer is Mike Mitchell (director of next year’s Kung Fu Panda 4) and the co-producer is Rachel Zusser (associate producer, The Croods: A New Age).

Back Lot Music Releases
Dreamworks Animation's
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Original Score By Grammy® Award Winning Composer
Stephanie Economou
Featuring Original Songs By Mimi Webb And Freya Ridings

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More info at: Official Web Site BSX Dreamworks

Back Lot Music presents the soundtrack for DreamWorks Animation’s movie Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. The album contains the score composed by Stephanie Economou and the Mimi Webb’s original song This Moment, which

Back Lot Music presents the soundtrack for DreamWorks Animation’s movie Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. The album contains the score composed by Stephanie Economou and the Mimi Webb’s original song This Moment, which

The soundtrack is available to download on all digital music services, June 30, 2023 .

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is directed by Kirk DeMicco, with the voices of Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Sam Richardson, Liza Koshy, Will Forte, Blue Chapman, Colman Domingo, Jaboukie Young-White, Ramona Young, Eduardo Franco and Echo Kellum.

Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White, Ralph Breaks the Internet), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom (Oscar® nominee Toni Collette, Knives Out), has forbade Ruby from ever getting in the water.

But when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother (Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda), the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas.

The Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons. There’s one major, and immediate, problem with that: The school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea (Emmy winner Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek) just happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most. ( - Universal - )

More info at: Official Web Site Universal Pictures