Je Suis Karl
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Minority Records presents the soundtrack for the German movie Je Suis Karl. The album contains the music composed by Tom Hodge

Minority Records presents the soundtrack for the German movie Je Suis Karl. The album contains the music composed by Tom Hodge

The album 'Je Suis Karl Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' is available on LP, download and streaming services on September 16, 2021 via Minority Records.

Je Suis Karl is a German feature film directed by Christian Schwochow with a screenplay by Thomas Wendrich with Luna Wedler, Jannis Niewöhner, Milan Peschel, Edin Hasanović, Anna Fialová, Marlon Boess, Victor Boccard, Fleur Geffrier, Aziz Dyab, Mélanie Fouché and Elizaveta Maximová.

Following a terrorist attack, survivor Maxi joins the beguiling student Karl and becomes part of a European youth movement – one that aims for nothing less than seizing power…..

After their acclaimed collaborative album 'A Portrait Of John Doe' Tom Hodge & Floex renewed their musical companionship to create this soundtrack. The duo created more than an hour of music inspired by the thriller screenplay long before the movie was finished and inevitably many of these ideas and tracks were not included in the actual movie. This official soundtrack has given the pair an opportunity to share not only titles from the film, but also to include many compositions which are not- and are instead unique to the album.

During the creative process Tom and Tomas experimented a lot with the texture of the music. While certain classic cinematic elements, especially strings are present, the sonic palette is much richer. It invites the listener into an intense universe of dark heavily-processed material containing deep, melancholic and sometimes even threatening moods.

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Political thriller Je Suis Karl, produced by German director Christian Schwochow, has a strong Czech connection. The soundtrack has been created by Czech musician and composer Tomáš Dvořák, a.k.a. Floex, who joined forces with British composer and pianist Tom Hodge. The soundtrack for Je Suis Karl has just been released today.

Political thriller Je Suis Karl, produced by German director Christian Schwochow, has a strong Czech connection. The soundtrack has been created by Czech musician and composer Tomáš Dvořák, a.k.a. Floex, who joined forces with British composer and pianist Tom Hodge. The soundtrack for Je Suis Karl has just been released today.

'In this project, Tom and I built on music that we wrote together three years ago for the album A Portrait Of John Doe. While this was the first feature film for me, Tom has extensive experience with composing music for movies and series,' commented Dvořák.

Co-produced by the Czech company Negativ and filmed in part in the Czech Republic, the movie features characters played by Czech actresses Anna Fialová and Elizaveta Maximová. The picture makes use of the story of a young German girl, Maxi, and her family to draw attention to rising extremism among right-wing nationalists. Je Suis Karl was premiered during this year's Berlinale film festival in the Berlinale Special section.

At the director's initiative, music for Je Suis Karl was composed based on the script before the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Christian Schwochow asked for a demo, but when Tom and I set to work in Prague, we came up with a huge amount of inspired stuff within a short time, and the music became the foundation of the soundtrack.

Because of the pandemic, the music itself was created on a long-distance basis. It was a game of ping-pong of sorts,' Dvořák added.

The soundtrack for Je Suis Karl features a unique timbre, far from the traditional symphonic sound. Instead, the sonic design relies on a fusion of dark, discordant, dirty sounds that present the symphony orchestra in a novel fashion.

Floex and Hodge created a database of loops, sounds, soundscapes, and sonic experiments with no specific compositional context. In composing music for individual scenes, they used this musical database, remixed themes and versions of compositions, and worked with vintage equipment, such as the Yamaha MT4X cassette player. Considering the large quantity of music recorded, the album contains 14 compositions from the movie itself, plus bonus tracks that did not make it into the film.

The Je Suis Karl Soundtrack is released on a black 180-gram LP and in digital format by the Czech label Minority Records. The film will appear in cinemas starting on January 13, 2022.

Je Suis Karl Soundtrack is available at online digital and streaming services: https://lnk.to/jesuiskarl

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