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I REMEMBER YOU (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) (COLD SPRING)

VARIOUS - I REMEMBER YOU (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) 143761
format:
1 CD
release:
12.02.2021
label:
COLD SPRING
genre:
Soundtracks
item ID:
143761
barcode:
0641871745616
We are extremely proud to release the official soundtrack to the cult Icelandic horror film 'I REMEMBER YOU' (Is: "Ég man _ig").

Heavy dark ambient / industrial / orchestral soundscapes composed by Frank Hall, with a beautiful, solemn, folkloristic finale featuring Icelandic choirs.

A must for fans of Graeme Revell, Steven Price, Lustmord, MZ.412. The soundtrack was created at the old industrial area of Grandi in Reykjavík, at a studio due to be 'gentrified' and forcefully emptied of the artists.

"I was alone in this large building in this deserted area, working late hours, making music for a horror movie.

It was during winter... wind blowing, darkness. There were some tense moments...". "As soon as I read the script, I heard low brass in my head and that kind of stuck.

We used a lot of brass instruments, filtered, and processed throughout. I also ended up using a lot of bowed guitar, sometimes doubling the brass, sometimes more like a sound effect".

Hall also used analogue synths on the special climactic track "Montage". On the finale, Hall reminisces: "Módir mín í kví kví (My Mother In The Sheep Pen) is an old Icelandic folk song.

The lyrics are based on Icelandic folklore about a woman who had a baby which she could not afford to have and left it outside to die, wrapped in a rag.

The infant then becomes what we Icelandic call "Utburdur" - the ghost of a child who has been left out to die.

Sometime later the woman wants to go to a dance but has no pretty clothes to wear. She is in the sheep pen attending to the sheep when she hears this whispering outside: "My mother in the sheep pen, don't you worry because I'll lend you my rag, my rag to dance in".

It is a rather ominous lyric, and this song is sometimes sung for Icelandic babies as a lullaby...

a little odd custom perhaps. I remember my mother singing this to me. This is one of my favourite Icelandic folk songs, and when I created the music for "I Remember You", which is about a lost child that haunts people, I suggested to director Oskar Thór Axelsson that I should make an Icelandic choir version of it and use it as a theme / credit song.

He loved the idea".
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. INTRO
  • 1.2. SIGLING
  • 1.3. HESTEYRI
  • 1.4. KJALLARINN
  • 1.5. BERNODUS I
  • 1.6. LÆKURINN
  • 1.7. REYKJAVIK
  • 1.8. BENNI
  • 1.9. HVALSTODIN
  • 1.10. MONTAGE
  • 1.11. BERNODUS II
  • 1.12. FREYR
  • 1.13. ENDIR
  • 1.14. MóDIR MíN í KVí KVí