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Shōgun Original Soundtrack - All New Original Music From Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba Set For Release February 23, 2024 On Hollywood Records

Shōgun Original Soundtrack - All New Original Music From Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba Set For Release February 23 On Hollywood Records

Celebrated Oscar, GRAMMY, and Golden Globe-winning composer and Nine Inch Nails recording artist Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Soul, Gone Girl, Mank), composers Leopold Ross (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Book of Eli, Triple 9) and Nick Chuba (The Girl from Plainville, Dr. Death) have collaborated on the score to the highly anticipated upcoming FX limited series Shōgun, which premieres February 27, 2024 on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in all other territories.

Hollywood Records also release the Shōgun Original Soundtrack on February 23.

The 10-episode global event is an original adaptation of James Clavell’s bestselling 1975 novel set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Shōgun was first adapted into a hugely successful historical drama TV miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, and Yoko Shimada that aired in 1980 and went on to win an Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award.
The new series adaptation is drawing rave reviews from critics, including TIME magazine, which calls it a “revelation” and “genuine masterpiece.”

The composer team created all-new original music focusing not toward making period Japanese music, but rather ensuring that on a cellular level the textures in the score were authentic.
They worked closely over 2.5 years with Japanese arranger Taro Ishida to orchestrate the score, hire performers, and source authentic instruments of Japan’s Edo Period in history. Ishida traveled throughout Japan recording specific classical Gagaku ensembles performing music true to the period.
With unprecedented access to record in a historic temple (which name is being undisclosed per the resident monk's request), Ishida captured sounds that have never before been recorded.
The composers also read Clavell’s novel and watched the 1980 series in effort in order to create an entirely original score that did not sound like past works.

Atticus, Leopold, and Nick took the recordings, and through heavy processing, resampling, and manipulation created their own sonic universe of playable sample banks with a palette of sound specifically designed toward the language of the show.

'The goal was to create music that cannot be identified as ancient or modern, nor specifically Eastern or Western - we wanted it to exist between the lines, playing primarily to the psychology of character and story,” said Atticus Ross.

Along with his frequent co-composer and Nine Inch Nails bandmate Trent Reznor, Atticus won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for his work on director David Fincher’s The Social Network, as well as an Academy Award and GRAMMY for the score and soundtrack to Pixar’s Soul, which they collaborated on with Jon Batiste.

Brothers Atticus and Leopold have collaborated on select projects for years. Besides Shōgun, together they worked with composer Claudia Sarne on the score for films such as The Book of Eli, Blackhat, and Triple 9 (alongside The Haxan Cloak), and other series including Outcast, Black Mirror, the Tupac Shakur docuseries Dear Mama, and Touching Evil.

Together Atticus and Trent Reznor also scored Fincher's globally popular Netflix thriller The Killer, HBO’s Watchmen series, the Ken Burns documentary The Vietnam War, and Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming tennis romance film Challengers starring Zendaya.

An English musician, record producer, recording engineer and music programmer who has scored numerous motion pictures and television shows, Leopold most recently composed scores for Apple’s major Godzilla TV franchise Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and The Con Queen of Hollywood.

In addition to Shōgun, Atticus, Leopold, and Nick have worked together on music for the series Dr. Death. Leopold and Nick composed the score for the series The Girl From Plainville.
Outside of his composing work, Leopold was also a founding member of eclectic rock band Nojahoda, and has written, recorded, produced, and performed with diverse acts such as Bad Religion, Error, Grace Jones, Korn, Dillinger Escape Plan, Rancid, The Transplants, Five Finger Death Punch, Brigitte Fontaine, The Big Pink, Io Echo, and Brett Anderson.
Nick is an LA-based composer who got his start working as an assistant to Atticus, and has worked on numerous projects with him since 2014.

Shōgun features an acclaimed Japanese cast, unprecedented for an American production, including Tadanobu Asano, Hiroto Kanai, Takehiro Hira, Moeka Hoshi, Tokuma Nishioka, Shinnosuke Abe, Yuki Kura, Yuka Kouri and Fumi Nikaido. Shōgun was created for television by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, with Marks serving as Showrunner and Executive Producer alongside Michaela Clavell, Edward L. McDonnell, Michael De Luca, and Kondo.
The series is produced by FX Productions.

More info at: Composer Atticus Ross Official Site

More info at: Composer Nick Chuba Official Site

Hollywood Records presents the soundtrack for the FX series Shōgun. The contains the music composed by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba.

Hollywood Records presents the soundtrack for the FX series Shōgun. The contains the music composed by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba.

The soundtrack is available to download on all digital music services since February 23, 2024

The 10-part drama Shōgun is developed by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks based on the classic novel by James Clavell and stars Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Takehiro Hira, Tadanobu Asano, Hiroto Kanai, Shinnosuke Abe,Moeka Hoshi, Tokuma Nishioka, Yuka Kouri, Yuki Kura and Fumi Nikaido.

Based on James Clavell’s novel, FX’s Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

More info at: Official Web Site Hulu