MOVIESCORE MEDIA PRESENTS

CHRISTOPHER SLASKI’S ORIGINAL MUSIC FROM
THE QUAY BROTHERS’ AWARD-WINNING ART HOUSE PICTURE
”THE PIANOTUNER OF EARTHQUAKES”

MOVIESCORE MEDIA’S FIRST CD RELEASE
CO-INCIDES WITH ONLINE ALBUM RELEASE
AND US RELEASE OF THE FILM ON DVD

Yes, that’s right – our latest release is available both online as a digital download and on CD. After our first year in the soundtrack business, we have decided to start offer regular CDs in addition to our established online distribution, beginning with our 20th release. The first album to receive this treatment came out on April 17, 2007, and features a highly original score from the award-winning art house picture THE PIANOTUNER OF EARTHQUAKES, directed by the Quay Brothers and produced by Terry Gilliam.

The music is composed by up and coming UK composer Christopher Slaski, whose other scores include Beyond the Sea for Kevin Spacey and the Spanish Semen: Una historia de amor. Evoking the suggestive atmosphere of the film, his original score is both frighteningly beautiful – and beautifully frightening! The eclectic score uses Antonio Vivaldi’s beautiful ”Nisi Dominus” as its main theme, while selections from the late British composer Trevor Duncan’s ”The Unwanted” suite is used to a dreamlike effect.

THE PIANOTUNER OF EARTHQUAKES was released on DVD in the US by Artificial Eye on April 17, co-inciding with the release of the soundtrack. The film tells the story of Malvina van Stille (Amira Casar), an opera singer who is abducted by the diabolical Dr. Emmanuel Droz (Gottfried John) just before her marriage with composer Adolfo Blin (Cesar Sarachu). Malvina is taken to the doctor’s mansion in Azucena. He is a brain surgeon who wants to perform an unspeakable act on Malvina. THE PIANOTUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is a dark and highly original fairytale which has impressed festival audiences and critics all over the world. It was nominated to compete for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, where the film won two awards. Variety wrote that the film “impresses as a visually exquisite, rigorously intellectual” fable and New York Times defined it as a “idiosyncratic, highly original vision”.

Christopher Slaski is a British composer of film and concert music. Born in 1974, he was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was awarded the Eric Coates Prize. He continued his studies, specialising in music for film with Ennio Morricone and José Nieto. Amongst the films he has scored are Kevin Spacey’s Beyond The Sea, the Spanish comedy Semen, una historia de amor (nominated for Best Spanish Score of 2005 by the Spanish Film Music Critics Awards) and the drama Cuadrilátero, whose score was recorded by the Brodsky Quartet. Other work includes documentaries, BBC and ITV television drama, news and current affairs themes, commercials and computer games. Christopher has composed numerous concert works, including the “Frank Lloyd Wright Suite”, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. In February 2006 he was invited to join the International Jury at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France.

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Christopher Slaski: http://www.christopherslaski.com
Official film web site: http://www.pianotunerofearthquakes.com
DVD: http://www.artificial-eye.com/dvd/ART315dvd/main.html

MovieScore Media is a high quality soundtrack label devoted to discover, present and promote high quality original film scores. Our back catalogue features 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)
• MMS06011 Headspace (Ryan Shore)
• MMS06012 Land of the Blind (Guy Farley/Doug Edwards)
• MMS06013 The Dark (Edmund Butt)
• MMS06014 Chasing Ghosts (Scott Glasgow)
• MMS06015 Frostbite (Anthony Lledo)
• MMS06016 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (Stephen Barton)
• MMS07001 Back in Business (Mark Thomas)
• MMS07002 Marcus: The Film Music of George Shaw (George Shaw)
• MMS07003 Shooting Shona (Laura Rossi)

[Message edited by moviescore on 04-19-2007]