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How to describe Mandy? Imagine a live-action version of the cover art from a band that sang about dragons, Vikings and both Sodom and Gomorrah, set to a score from the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, that’s half the hardest basslines you’ll find outside a Berlin basement club and half atmospherics that would give Beelzebub himself the willies. – Andrew Lowry, Empire Online

Ahead of the UK theatrical release, critics reviews continue to roll in for Mandy, Directed by Panos Cosmatos! Empire Magazine remarks on the chilling score by the late Johann Johannsson to what critics are already calling a new cult classic. If you haven’t yet seen the film, this review is pretty spoiler free. If you’re not in the UK, you can catch Mandy in select theaters now and on Digital VOD (rent it on iTunes). The soundtrack released by Lakeshore and Invada Records is available now on Digital and Vinyl formats!

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen/Buy]

RLJE Films presents MANDY, in UK Cinemas on October 12!

Scores, Vinyl

Mandy Soundtrack Vinyl: Johann Johannsson’s Score LP Available In U.S. + Worldwide September 28!

September 25, 2018 Film Music Daily Staff

Johann Johannsson embraces the voice on the doom metal influenced Mandy soundtrack – AV Club

In his final completed film score, the late composer and experimental musician revels in extreme sounds, delving into black metal, menacing ambient, doom drone, and piercing orchestrations. – Pitchfork

Panos Cosmatos’ New York Times Critic’s Pick film, Mandy, features score by the late Johann Johannsson! The digital album charted to No. 7 on iTunes when it was released, but film music fans looking to get their hands on a collectible record stateside will not have to wait much longer. The soundtrack LP, available in Translucent Red and 180 gram Black vinyl will be available stateside (and worldwide) on September 28 via our friends and partners at Invada Records! Which pressing are you going to get?

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen][Pre-order U.S. Vinyl]{Order at Invada Records UK}

TRACK LIST

1. Seeker of the Serpent’s Eye
2. Starling
3. Mandy Love Theme
4. Horns of Abraxas
5. Black Skulls
6. Death and Ashes
7. Sand
8. Red
9. Forging the Beast
10. Dive-bomb Blues
11. Waste
12. Temple
13. Burning Church
14. Memories
15. Children of the New Dawn

Haven’t seen the critically-acclaimed film yet?

RLJE Films presents MANDY, now playing in select theaters (find a theater) and available on VOD [rent it on iTunes].

Press & Reviews, Scores

Mandy: Jeremiah Sand’s Single Is Real and A Best Seller on Bandcamp + Song Lyrics!

September 19, 2018 Film Music Daily Staff

For fans who have seen Panos Cosmatos’ new Mandy movie, the single, “Amulet of the Weeping Maze” sung by Jeremiah Sand will have more context for you. Produced by Randall Dunn, the song heard in the film was actually released earlier this year by Lakeshore Records ahead of the score release. The full track and spoken word segment via Lakeshore Records is a Best Seller, only available on Bandcamp! Check out the song lyrics and experience Jeremiah Sand’s foray into the music world.

Produced, Recorded, and Mixed by Randall Dunn
Engineered by Ben Greenburg
Music by Milky Burgess
Lyrics by Jeremiah Sand
Lead Vocals by Jeremiah Sand
Back-up Vocals by Faith Coloccia, Monika Khot
Flute by Hans Tueber
Lead Vocals Recorded at Figure Eight Studios
Lead Vocals Recorded by Phil Wienrobe

SAND SPOKEN INTRO

In the beginning
There was me
I was alone
And it was dark
And in that darkness
A sound
Your voice
You called
You were alone
But I heard you

Every seed that gives us life
Every man must take a wife
Only one sun ever shines
Only one sun
Yours and mine

Jeremiah Sand was a righteous man
Who’s heart was full of love
He wandered the land
On the shifting sands
Searching for a Dove

These children cry
For what they lack
But a child can learn a lot
And a child is taught the lessons well
The light that shines through everything
The light is truth and the lesson’s learned
This song of you and me

Every seed that gives us life
Every man must take a wife
Only one sun
Ever shines
Only one sun
Yours and mine

Jeremiah Sand was a righteous man
Who’s heart was full of love
He wandered the land
On the shifting sands
Searching for a Dove

I saw you lost and wandering
Adrift upon the seas
Your head is far beneath the waves
But your heart should be so free
Listen you must tune your ear
To celestial frequencies
It’s in the air
The sound of love
Vibrations of the truth are here
The truth of you and me

Every seed that gives us life
Every man must take a wife
Only one sun
Ever shines
Only one sun
Yours and mine

Jeremiah Sand was a righteous man
Who’s heart was full of love
He wandered the land
On the shifting sands
Searching for a Dove

The rushing fools in plastic homes
These busy little bees
Running, busy back and forth
They never ever see
Their masters hand in every thing
The order of the trees
The song that’s whistling on the breeze
This song of you and me

Press & Reviews, Scores

Mandy Soundtrack: On Johann Johannsson’s Final Score (Review) | Pitchfork

September 18, 2018 Film Music Daily Staff

In his final completed film score, the late composer and experimental musician revels in extreme sounds, delving into black metal, menacing ambient, doom drone, and piercing orchestrations. – Pitchfork

Critics and fans have used adjectives such as metal, black metal, doom metal, drone metal and more to describe Johann Johannsson’s score to Mandy, out now in select theaters and on VOD. Check out the review over at Pitchfork in which contributor Andy Beta dives into the dark cinematic experience that is Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy. Have you had a chance to see this new movie starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache?

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen]

Scores

Johann Johannsson : The Music Of ‘Mandy’ | Variety

September 13, 2018 Film Music Daily Staff

Partly electronic, partly live players, it’s also heavily edited and processed for a dark, massive, industrial-metal sound that matches the grim, violent, sometimes insane milieu of the film. – Jon Burlingame, Variety

On the eve of the Mandy theatrical and soundtrack release, Variety’s Jon Burlingame takes a look at the late composer Johann Johannsson, whose score was completed shortly before his passing earlier this year. The film’s director Panos Cosmatos, his friend and manager Tim Husom and others remark on the journey and collaborations that brought the highly-anticipated score to fruition, including the newly-formed Johann Johannsson Foundation, which aims to “connect and support music students to musicians.” Read the full story at Variety.

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