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SPARKS & SHADOWS TO RELEASE THE SOUNDTRACK FOR

ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE

MUSIC COMPOSED BY BEAR MCCREARY

McCreary Brings His Love for 8-Bit Scores To Life With New Soundtrack

Album Features Two Original Songs by Young Beautiful In A Hurry

(August 26, 2014 – Culver City, CA) Sparks & Shadows announces the release of the ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) digitally on September 2, 2014. The soundtrack features original music by Emmy® Award winning composer Bear McCreary for the film based on the popular Angry Video Game Nerd web series.

In addition to writing the original music, McCreary remixed two songs for the album, "Sacred Ground of the Golden Turd” and "The Angry Video Game Nerd Theme Song.” The band Young Beautiful in a Hurry contribute two songs, “Nerds Before Birds” and “Barcade.” Both songs were written by the band’s Brendan McCreary, who regularly collaborates with Bear on the TV series Defiance.

“I can honestly say that the score for ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE is without doubt the most fun score I’ve ever produced,” said McCreary. “I also got to incorporate the iconic ‘Angry Video Game Nerd Theme Song,’ and collaborate with its composer, Kyle Justin.”

James Rolfe (aka “The Nerd”) brings his popular web series to life with ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE. The Nerd became a web sensation with his angry and often foul-mouthed reviews of video games and pop culture. In 2011 The Nerd used his skills in viral marketing to launch a Kickstarter campaign to bring his web series to the big screen.

The film is inspired by the famous Atari video game burial of 1982. Atari produced a game based on the biggest blockbuster movie of that year, E.T., and rushed it to meet the deadline for the Christmas shopping season. It was a commercial failure and millions of unsold game cartridges were buried in a desert landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Coincidentally, it’s not too far from Roswell, the landing site of a different kind of E.T.

The Nerd sets out on a quest to find and review this video game – finally giving his fans what they have long desired – and leading to hilarious consequences…

For ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE Rolfe turned to Bear McCreary to compose the original music. McCreary had previously composed/arranged music for the 2010 ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD Christmas episode, How the Nerd Stole Christmas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMINBv_Dqvs)

“The music combines a full symphonic orchestra, heavy metal rhythm section and custom sampled synthesis from NES, Super Nintendo and SEGA Genesis hardware,” McCreary described. “For this score, I got to live out all my musical fantasies, combining influences from my favorite video games and film composers that inspired me when I was a kid.

Cinemassacre presents ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE will be available on Video On Demand on September 2nd. Sparks & Shadows presents the ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), available digitally on September 2, 2014.

Other releases from Sparks & Shadows include McCreary's two soundtracks for the series Da Vinci’s Demons (featuring the Emmy® Award-winning title theme), Black Sails (featuring the Emmy® Award-nominated title theme), Defiance, as well as motion picture soundtracks for Europa Report and Knights of Badassdom.

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So Bear just tweeted that he's gonna be repped by the Kraft-Engel Manangement. IIRC, don't they also repped Menken and Beltrami?

Anyway, here's hoping that Bear's gonna finally start hitting it big in Hollywood.

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Trailer is out for Bear's latest feature film score

Score will be released by Bear's label, Sparks and Shadows

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“EVERLY is a film in which Salma Hayek must stay alive in an apartment while confronting wave after wave of increasingly volatile and vicious Yakuza gangsters. It is pretty much as awesome as it sounds,” described BadassDigest. MovieFone described it as “a symphony of exploding heads and bullets.”

To score this ‘symphony,’ Director Joe Lynch turned to frequent collaborator Bear McCreary. Lynch said, “Bear and Team McCreary (including his lovely muse Raya and badass brother Brendan, who worked on the holiday tracks) were the sonic glue that holds the madness together, and I don’t know what the film would be like without his work on it.”

Track listing:

1. A Gift from Taiko

2. Deck the Halls (Performed by Raya Yarbrough)

3. Allies

4. Fighting to Survive

5. A Very Merry Christmas (Performed by Brendan McCreary)

6. Dead Man

7. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Performed by Brendan McCreary)

8.FaLaLa (Performed by Brendan McCreary)

9. The Sadist

10. Taiko

11. Resolution

12. Silent Night (Performed by Raya Yarbrough)

13. Everly End Credits

http://sparksandshadows.net/everly/

You can pre-order it on iTunes now:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/everly-original-%20motion-picture/id951143407?ls=1

And La-La Land Records will sell 360 copies of the physical CD signed by Bear on Tuesday January 20th, 2015.

http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=67395&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=48&r=714#bottom

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I really want the AVGN score, but I've never downloaded anything from actual online shops before, so could anyone help me out a bit?

If I ordered it through Amazon.com, will Amazon allow me to save the music files and store it in my own external HDD or will I only be able to access it from their cloud?

I just want to know what I'm buying and how I'm allowed to use it before I make any purchase.

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I buy mp3 files from Amazon and use their Amazon Downloader program to save them to my local hard drive. I can then copy them to an iPod or any other external hard drive I want to.

They put an Amazon specific code in the Comments tag, which I usually erase. I often need to tweak the tags of Amazon files before putting them on my iPod anyways. I once bought a two disc live Queen album that would have made disc 2 a different album and alphabetically just before disc 1. Ten second fix.

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DRM like that is a 2000s thing. If you buy music from basically any digital retailer, but for sure Amazon and iTunes, you can download the files and do whatever you want with then.

It should be noted that with iTunes, you name is embedded in the file you get. There are apps that can strip it out.

With Amazon, they are just plain old mp3s with no information in them you can't see in the standard tags.

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Oh fuck I got this message.

"Sorry, but your Amazon account is registered to a different region than the current marketplace. Your digital music order cannot be completed; we apologize for the inconvenience."

This is why Australians are the biggest pirates on the planet!!

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Looking forward to Everly. Also, it looks like Outlander could be out in February. Haven't watched the show yet, but his reworking of the song used for the main title is great. The 'celtic' moments in BSG were impressive, so this is promising. The label for this one interestingly is Sony's 'Madison Gate Records', rather than his own label.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outlander-O-S-T-Bear-Mccreary/dp/B00RHYBCN6/

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Also, it looks like Outlander could be out in February.

Apparently, the album will be available on February 10.

http://scoretrackinenglish.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/madison-gate-records-to-release-outlander-original-television-soundtrack-vol-1/

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Track List:
1. People Disappear All The Time
2. Outlander – The Skye Boat Song (feat. Raya Yarbrough) [Castle Leoch version]
3. Dance Of The Druids (feat. Raya Yarbrough)
4. Fallen Through Time
5. Castle Leoch
6. Comin’ Thro’ The Rye
7. The Woman Of Balnain (feat. Gillebrìde MacMillan)
8. Mrs. Fitz
9. The Losing Side Of History
10. Clean Pease Strae
11. The Marriage Contract
12. The Wedding
13. The Veil Of Time
Running Time: 51 minutes
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Also, it looks like Outlander could be out in February.

Apparently, the album will be available on February 10.

http://scoretrackinenglish.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/madison-gate-records-to-release-outlander-original-television-soundtrack-vol-1/

outlander.jpg

Track List:
1. People Disappear All The Time
2. Outlander – The Skye Boat Song (feat. Raya Yarbrough) [Castle Leoch version]
3. Dance Of The Druids (feat. Raya Yarbrough)
4. Fallen Through Time
5. Castle Leoch
6. Comin’ Thro’ The Rye
7. The Woman Of Balnain (feat. Gillebrìde MacMillan)
8. Mrs. Fitz
9. The Losing Side Of History
10. Clean Pease Strae
11. The Marriage Contract
12. The Wedding
13. The Veil Of Time
Running Time: 51 minutes

I see it's a vol. 1 release rather than a season 1 release as it only includes music from the first 8 episodes. Cash grab! But I'll take it. Going by the fairly rabid fanbase and the fact that Sony are putting it out one of their labels it could be a decent-selling album. Still not had the opportunity to view the show so the album will be my first experience of the score apart from the rather good title song.

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Outlander is out today. It was a nice surprise to find it on spotify.

https://play.spotify.com/album/7IACcKsPaMrCJjwsZLjoJ3

That'll tide me over until my CD arrives.

Also Sony seem to have made the right call in putting it out through one of their labels. It's been in the top 5 soundtracks on Amazon for a few weeks, currently #2 and it is the #13 overall best-selling CD on Amazon at the moment.

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It's a pretty good show, yes (I actually surprised myself by liking it, as I had assumed it was more 'women's lit' than it was), and Bear's score is very good. So is this album, which contains lots of lush Celtic colours -- something I'm very weak for. Additionally, Bear has FINALLY made a proper album, which is another relief (he usually puts out about 670 minutes of music on each album of each television show he works on).

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It's a series I'd like to catch up with at some point -- the Ron Moore-Bear McCreary collaboration is a draw -- but in this so-called "golden age" of television I can keep up with only so many shows.

I've listened to this a few times today -- it's pretty solid, though nothing really stands out. For the sake of making a haphazard comparison, Lee Holdridge's The Mists of Avalon strikes me as a better listen.

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Really? I like The Mists of Avalon, but it's not exactly a score that has a lot of...stand out moments. It's great, inoffensive background listening though.

Outlander seems to benefit from McCreary's eccentric writing in the "interesting" department.

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Outlander made it to #104 on the Billboard 200 chart. #6 on the soundtrack chart. Congratulations Bear! It also continues to do well at Amazon, currently at #25 overall, #3 in soundtracks.

Sales aside, I think this may well be the best piece of work that he's done so far and we're only 8 episodes in. Like Thor mentioned above, the album is also well put together.

Favourite tracks so far: 'Dance of the Druids', 'The Wedding'

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Really? I like The Mists of Avalon, but it's not exactly a score that has a lot of...stand out moments. It's great, inoffensive background listening though.

Outlander seems to benefit from McCreary's eccentric writing in the "interesting" department.

Mists of Avalon... background listening? Good God.....

I really like it....

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Outlander made it to #104 on the Billboard 200 chart. #6 on the soundtrack chart. Congratulations Bear! It also continues to do well at Amazon, currently at #25 overall, #3 in soundtracks.

Sales aside, I think this may well be the best piece of work that he's done so far and we're only 8 episodes in. Like Thor mentioned above, the album is also well put together.

Favourite tracks so far: 'Dance of the Druids', 'The Wedding'

If something like this can sell that well, why hasn't AMC commissioned a score release for The Walking Dead again?

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Outlander made it to #104 on the Billboard 200 chart. #6 on the soundtrack chart. Congratulations Bear! It also continues to do well at Amazon, currently at #25 overall, #3 in soundtracks.

Sales aside, I think this may well be the best piece of work that he's done so far and we're only 8 episodes in. Like Thor mentioned above, the album is also well put together.

Favourite tracks so far: 'Dance of the Druids', 'The Wedding'

If something like this can sell that well, why hasn't AMC commissioned a score release for The Walking Dead again?

That situation is really bizarre. Them wanting song albums surely can't be the only reason for them preventing the score release. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is just the latest example showing that you can do both at the same time. The song album for that is #2 on the billboard chart. (Hmm. The secret for good album sales is properties based on books with large female fanbases!)

Whatever politics, misplaced fears or indifference currently at play surely can't last. Seems a no-brainer for the most popular show on tv to get a score release. Hopefully one day...

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Hopefully Marvel get their heads out of their asses and hire him for a big superhero picture. It could be his big break into films, considering he's the master of the small screen already. I'd definitely like to hear him on the big screen.

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I'm excited for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. soundtrack. I haven't listened to anything by Bear in a while. This could change that.

I think it would be neat if he scored Inhumans, since Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is introducing the Inhumans to the MCU. However, I hope that he would have had a chance to score a big live-action film before 2019.

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McCreary is scoring Damien, a new show from former The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara based on The Omen.

Source: https://twitter.com/glenmazzara/status/625864763570925568

Now he's currently scoring

Defiance

Da Vinci's Demons

Black Sails

Outlander

The Walking Dead

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Damien

plus whatever hasn't been announced yet. Man, McCreary sure does know how to keep busy!

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