HEADSPACE
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by
RYAN SHORE

iTunes purchase link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=184733238&s=143441

Info page: http://www.moviescoremedia.com/headspace.html

Listen to these clips from the score (more available on our web site and iTunes):
- Headspace: http://www.moviescoremedia.com/audio/headspace1.mp3
- The Staircase: http://www.moviescoremedia.com/audio/headspace2.mp3
- The Dot: http://www.moviescoremedia.com/audio/headspace8.mp3
- Phrenology: http://www.moviescoremedia.com/audio/headspace10.mp3
- Christi Spiritu: http://www.moviescoremedia.com/audio/headspace17.mp3

Co-inciding with the US DVD release of the film, MovieScore Media releases Ryan Shore's exciting and stylish score for sci-fi horror film Headspace on September 12. This is the Swedish soundtrack label's eleventh online album, following critically acclaimed releases of scores such as Half Light, An American Haunting, The Roost, Evil and The Sisters.

Headspace is the directorial debut of Andrew van den Houten and stars Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Sean Young, Dee Wallace-Stone, Mark Margolis and Larry Fessenden. The winner of the ”Best Screenplay” and ”Best Cinematography” awards at the New York City Horror Film festival last year, Headspace was described by Slasherpool.com as ”an interesting combination of creature feature and psychological thriller.” Hollywood Reporter noted that the director ”displays a strong ability for creating an air of atmospheric tension,” a quality of the film which definitely owes a lot to Ryan Shore's highly original score.

Genre web site Joe Horror wrote that Shore's music is ”one of the better horror soundtracks I've heard in recent years. It's refreshingly short on nu-metal and if I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure I heard… a non-synthesized orchestra.” Indeed, the score for Headspace was recorded with a first-rate symphony orchestra, The Slovak National Symphony Orchestra recorded in Bratislava.

Ryan Shore is an up and coming Canadian composer with a surname that surely catches the attention of a lof of film music aficionados: Ryan is the nephew of Howard Shore, the composer of famous The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Just like Howard, Ryan Shore studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He won the first Elmer Bernstein Scoring Award at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2001, and since then he has scored numerous features, including Prime (starring Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman), Harvard Men (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Confession (Chris Pine). 31-year old Ryan Shore is considered to be one of the most interesting young film composers and he has recently composed original source music for the upcoming drama Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as revered photographer Diane Arbus.

Shore's score for Headspace is a stylish orchestral work with subtle elements of electronic sound design. It also features a string quartet, an infectious jazz tune (performed by the Ryan Shore Quartet), and a beautiful arrangement of Bach's ”Ave Maria”. 

Headspace: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available from iTunes and MovieScore Media on September 12, 2006.

MovieScore Media is an online soundtrack label devoted to make high quality film music available on the internet. In addition to its distribution via the iTunes music store, MovieScore Media is currently working on its own web shop where all their albums will be available in 320kbit mp3 format. This shop will be launched shortly.

Visit http://www.moviescoremedia.com to check out our catalogue featuring the following soundtrack recordings:

- MMS06001 Unknown Soldier (Peter Calandra)
- MMS06002 Shadows in the Sun (Mark Thomas)
- MMS06003 Echoes of Innocence (Brad Sayles)
- MMS06004 Dear Wendy (Benjamin Wallfisch)
- MMS06005 An American Haunting (Caine Davidson)
- MMS06006 Vet Hard (Too Fat, Too Furious) (Alex Heffes)
- MMS06007 The Sisters (Thomas Morse)
- MMS06008 Evil (Francis Shaw)
- MMS06009 Half Light (Brett Rosenberg)
- MMS06010 The Roost/Joshua (Jeff Grace)

All the best,

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