Alpha. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The venerable Ash Int. return with Ella van der Woude’s creeping eldritch synth score to a film about masculinity, centred on a father and son stranded in the Alps - think Mark Jenkin meets FUJI | | | | | || | | | | TA at Helge Sten’s lab.
Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer for film, Ella van der Woude, notches up an early highlight to her catalogue with the mix of evocatively chilly and magisterial themes and cues to ‘Alpha’, a film written and directed by Jan-Willem van Ewijk, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label. The suite notably, and suitably, features Alphorn performed by the artist’s aunt, Doris Stierlin Deslarzes, and modular synth of Fabien Iannone, both lending acoustic timbral frissons to van der Woude’s spellbinding webs of piano, organ, and electronics.
Track titles literally limn what the music implies in the likes of her expansive and slow-building, Deathprod-alike ‘Glaciers’, with the Alphorn crucial to the immensity of ‘Avalanche’ and ‘Eiger’, while the sliding drones of ‘Vertigo’ connote a vast sense of scale, and we can’t help but hear analogs with Mica Levi’s eerily otherworldly music to the ‘Monos’ OST, as inspired by the Andes, in the likes of her ‘Haze’, whilst ‘waterfall’ illuminates her solo piano finesse.
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The venerable Ash Int. return with Ella van der Woude’s creeping eldritch synth score to a film about masculinity, centred on a father and son stranded in the Alps - think Mark Jenkin meets FUJI | | | | | || | | | | TA at Helge Sten’s lab.
Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer for film, Ella van der Woude, notches up an early highlight to her catalogue with the mix of evocatively chilly and magisterial themes and cues to ‘Alpha’, a film written and directed by Jan-Willem van Ewijk, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label. The suite notably, and suitably, features Alphorn performed by the artist’s aunt, Doris Stierlin Deslarzes, and modular synth of Fabien Iannone, both lending acoustic timbral frissons to van der Woude’s spellbinding webs of piano, organ, and electronics.
Track titles literally limn what the music implies in the likes of her expansive and slow-building, Deathprod-alike ‘Glaciers’, with the Alphorn crucial to the immensity of ‘Avalanche’ and ‘Eiger’, while the sliding drones of ‘Vertigo’ connote a vast sense of scale, and we can’t help but hear analogs with Mica Levi’s eerily otherworldly music to the ‘Monos’ OST, as inspired by the Andes, in the likes of her ‘Haze’, whilst ‘waterfall’ illuminates her solo piano finesse.
The venerable Ash Int. return with Ella van der Woude’s creeping eldritch synth score to a film about masculinity, centred on a father and son stranded in the Alps - think Mark Jenkin meets FUJI | | | | | || | | | | TA at Helge Sten’s lab.
Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer for film, Ella van der Woude, notches up an early highlight to her catalogue with the mix of evocatively chilly and magisterial themes and cues to ‘Alpha’, a film written and directed by Jan-Willem van Ewijk, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label. The suite notably, and suitably, features Alphorn performed by the artist’s aunt, Doris Stierlin Deslarzes, and modular synth of Fabien Iannone, both lending acoustic timbral frissons to van der Woude’s spellbinding webs of piano, organ, and electronics.
Track titles literally limn what the music implies in the likes of her expansive and slow-building, Deathprod-alike ‘Glaciers’, with the Alphorn crucial to the immensity of ‘Avalanche’ and ‘Eiger’, while the sliding drones of ‘Vertigo’ connote a vast sense of scale, and we can’t help but hear analogs with Mica Levi’s eerily otherworldly music to the ‘Monos’ OST, as inspired by the Andes, in the likes of her ‘Haze’, whilst ‘waterfall’ illuminates her solo piano finesse.
The venerable Ash Int. return with Ella van der Woude’s creeping eldritch synth score to a film about masculinity, centred on a father and son stranded in the Alps - think Mark Jenkin meets FUJI | | | | | || | | | | TA at Helge Sten’s lab.
Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer for film, Ella van der Woude, notches up an early highlight to her catalogue with the mix of evocatively chilly and magisterial themes and cues to ‘Alpha’, a film written and directed by Jan-Willem van Ewijk, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label. The suite notably, and suitably, features Alphorn performed by the artist’s aunt, Doris Stierlin Deslarzes, and modular synth of Fabien Iannone, both lending acoustic timbral frissons to van der Woude’s spellbinding webs of piano, organ, and electronics.
Track titles literally limn what the music implies in the likes of her expansive and slow-building, Deathprod-alike ‘Glaciers’, with the Alphorn crucial to the immensity of ‘Avalanche’ and ‘Eiger’, while the sliding drones of ‘Vertigo’ connote a vast sense of scale, and we can’t help but hear analogs with Mica Levi’s eerily otherworldly music to the ‘Monos’ OST, as inspired by the Andes, in the likes of her ‘Haze’, whilst ‘waterfall’ illuminates her solo piano finesse.