Short Cuts 2020
Quartet Records QR479 The Best Of Original Short Motion Picture Scores

Quartet Records, in collaboration with MovieScore Media, presents Short Cuts 2020, a new collection of scores from short movies after the acclaimed releases of 2018 and 2019 volumes.

Quartet Records, in collaboration with MovieScore Media, presents Short Cuts 2020, a new collection of scores from short movies after the acclaimed releases of 2018 and 2019 volumes.

These projects are represented on 15 track compilation album that include the animated film The Cloudmaker (Matthijs Kieboom), the multiple award-winning shorts Javelina Run (music by Steffen Schmidt), A Father’s Job (Robin Hoffmann), Sclera Absentia (Joe Kraemer), Camaleón (Christopher Slaski) and Altered Mind of 20-20 (scored AND directed by Elia Cmiral).

In 2020, the represented genres on Short Cuts include fantasy, animation, horror, sci-fi, comedy and documentary. An interesting trend is that at least a handful of these films got their start from crowdfunding sites, so it’s especially refreshing to see that some of that budget going to recording original scores with actual musicians.

Although the tracks themselves have a different feel to them due to the diversity of both the represented genres and the composers involved, we hope this selection of the best short scores from 2020 proves that great film music is still alive and well – sometimes it’s just hiding in the smallest places!

The CD comes with a 8-page booklet, featuring exclusive liner notes by Gergely Hubai discussing each project in detail.
300 copies

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More info at: Official Web Site Quartet Records

MovieScore Media has produced a third volume in the label’s annual compilation series devoted to original music written for short films, Short Cuts 2020: The Best of Original Short Motion Picture Scores. At the same time, the label announces the creation of a completely new sub-label that will focus on the growing, much overlooked field of music from shorts.

MovieScore Media has produced a third volume in the label’s annual compilation series devoted to original music written for short films, Short Cuts 2020: The Best of Original Short Motion Picture Scores.

At the same time, the label announces the creation of a completely new sub-label that will focus on the growing, much overlooked field of music from shorts.

“Producing the third instalment of the annual Short Cuts compilation was more of a challenge this time, most likely because of the limitations brought upon film production due to the pandemic,” said MovieScore Media’s producer Mikael Carlsson.
“We were still able to collect an eclectic range of excellent original short film scores from both industry veterans and talented newcomers – the kind of wonderful mix that was aslo the trademark of the first two collections.
The number of high quality short film scores out there is so impressive that working on these three compilation albums lead to the creation of a new MovieScore Media digital sub-label devoted exclusively to single and EP releases of short film scores. The label name? Short Cuts, of course!”

One of the scores featured on the Short Cuts 2020 compilation, Matthijs Kieboom’s award nominated music for The Cloudmaker, also marks the first release on the new Short Cuts label on May 14, 2021.

Other notable works featured on the 15 track compilation album are the multiple award-winning shorts Javelina Run (music by Steffen Schmidt), A Father’s Job (Robin Hoffmann), Sclera Absentia (Joe Kraemer) and Altered Mind of 20-20 (Elia Cmiral).

MMS21017 Short Cuts 2020: The Best of Original Short Motion Picture Scores
Release date (digital): May 28, 2021
Release date (CD): TBC

More info at: Official Web Site MovieScore Media