The Exchange: Michael Smith & Christoph Bauschinger’s Score Releases Digitally!

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Lakeshore Records has released The Exchange (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), featuring score by Michael Smith (The Kid Who Would Be King, Broken) and Christoph Bauschinger (Paddington Bear, Les Miserables).  The 17-track album is available now digitally on all major music services.  Keep reading to view the tracklist, purchase link and more below.

Directed by Dan Mazer, two-time Academy Award nominee known for co-writing the Borat films and Director of EMMY-nominated variety series, “Who Is America?”, The Exchange movie stars Avan Jogia, Ed Oxenbould, and Justin Hartley.

A socially awkward teen decides to import a mail-order best friend from France. Instead, he ends up with his personal nightmare: a cologne-soaked, chain-smoking, sex-obsessed youth who quickly becomes the hero of the community.

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen]

Track List

01. Tim’s Theme
02. Stephane’s Theme
03. Tim and Brenda
04. Journey From the Airport
05. Going to School
06. I Wish I Never Choose You
07. Football French
08. Hang Out With Your Friends
09. Hobart’s L’etranger
10. I Do Like the Girl
11. Good Technique
12. Flash Blizzard
13. The Next Day
14. A Cowardly Move
15. Tim Isolated
16. Parade Chase
17. Airport Ending

 

ABOUT MICHAEL SMITH
Michael Smith is a composer and arranger with an excellent track record in writing music for film and TV.

Alongside Damon Albarn, Michael co-composed and arranged the score for The Kid Who Would Be King (20th Century Fox) as well as the award-winning Broken (Cuba Pictures) starring Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy. He wrote the music for the shorts The Running of the Deer and The Walkers (directed by Tim Whitby written by Lucy Mangan) for the Sky Arts series, ‘Ten Minute Tales’. Michael has also won an RTS award for Best Music for his score to ‘8 Minutes Idle’ (directed by Mark Simon Hewis). More recently Michael, alongside Christoph Bauschinger, scored ‘The Exchange’ a new comedy by Dan Mazer (Ali G, Borat), which is currently in post-production.

Theatre credits include ‘Double It: A Living Room Circus’ (Created and directed by Chen Shi-Zheng): ‘The Orphan of Zhao’ (directed by Chen Shi-Zheng), Dr Dee (Rufus Norris ENO) and Le Vol Du Boli directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, which premiered at Le Théâtre du Châtelet in October 2020. After receiving critical acclaim during its short run, the show will be re-opening in April 2022.

Documentary film composing includes ‘Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein’ (Andy Dunn 2018), ‘Madeleine – One Year On’ (Director Emma Loach ITV) ‘Swim’ (2016) BBC Four, The Secret Life of the Classroom Director Fran Landsman Channel 4 and ’Betrayal’ (Scott Calonico 2019 Tribeca Film Festival) amongst others.

Michael was co-music producer for Aardman’s 2018 animated feature, Shaun The Sheep: Farmageddon and produced songs performed by The Vaccines and Kylie Minogue.

Michael intersperses his film and TV scoring ambitions with extensive recording and touring with Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and The Heavy Seas.

Michael orchestrated the score for Ealing Studios’ remake of Noel Coward’s Easy Virtue, and Gorillaz’ hit opera Monkey King – Journey to the West for the Royal Opera House and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. He music supervised the show’s subsequent hugely successful run at New York City’s Lincoln Centre Festival.

In 2016, Michael worked in collaboration with Syrian exiled conductor and leader Essam Rafea on live shows for The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians, produced by Africa Express and among others featured Paul Weller and Julia Holter. It was performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall and opened the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival before a selection of shows in Europe.

ABOUT CHRISTOPH BAUSCHINGER
Christoph Bauschinger is a Music editor and music producer credited on 50+ feature films to date.

Having finished his BA in audio engineering in Munich Christoph moved to the UK in 2003 to study composition at University of Bristol. After finishing his master’s degree he worked first as assistant and then in-house engineer at Northpole Studios in North London with Grammy award-winning producer Steve Mclaughlin and Composer Ilan Eshkeri.

Standout projects throughout the early years include Studiocanal’s Paddington Bear, Richard Curtis’ About Time and Tom Hoopers Les Miserables, for which he also received a Golden Reel award for his work as Music editor.

Hi recent credits include music editing and cowriting the score for Joe Cornish’s The Kid who would be king alongside Damon Albarn and Gorillaz and Ben Wheatleys Rebecca starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.

 

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