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“Sun on You is an album I composed for Piano and Strings. I wanted to create a record that had a lot of space and what I mean by space is, something that maybe slowed the world down a little and gave a moment to breathe.
The new album ‘It’s Nearly Tomorrow’ by Craig Armstrong is out October 13th on CD, Double Vinyl & Digital. Pre-Order: CD Deluxe Packaging 180g Heavyweight Vinyl iTunes (17 Tracks) iTunes Deluxe Edition (20 Tracks)
For the composer, such expectation meant hours of absorption in the traditional music of Vietnam to come up with music that fitted both time and place. ‘You just immerse yourself psychologically in it,’ Armstrong says. ‘It’s almost like method acting.
For Armstrong, the film represented the first opportunity to write music for this genre, and his score has become as well-loved as the film itself. Part of it was written in Portugal, creating the theme for the romance that blossoms between Colin Firth and Lucia Moniz.
This is the fourth time Armstrong and Stone have worked together following on from the Untold History of the United States in 2013. Snowden is a politically charged thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as former CIA employee Edward Snowden, the controversial figure who exposed the shocking scope of the American government’s sanctioned surveillance activities of dubious legality all around the world.
An early career in theatre and commercial music – working in Glasgow’s Tron Theatre with Michael Boyd and working with bands like Hipsway, Midge Ure and The Big Dish – led to work as an arranger, notably with Massive Attack and Madonna, as a solo artist, as a classical composer, and, of course, as a film composer. Armstrong’s ...
Armstrong worked with Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries on the film to produce a 21st century score for a very modern Romeo and Juliet. In it, Di Caprio and Danes play the star-crossed lovers, doomed to tragedy by an uncrossable gang divide.
