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SUPER SONIC: THE MUSIC OF SOLO
TIE fighters, and the Empire. Those types of There’s no mention of the Force in Solo. 01 A musical interlude
aboard Dryden Vos’
things are very useful, as they’re all part of How did that effect how you approached the
yacht, First Light.
the language we know. There are lots of other music for the movie?
characters and ideas within the film that I wrote The hole that is left in a Star Wars movie that 02 Powell thematically
represented Enfys
tunes and melodies for, so it’s a mixture of new doesn’t feature the Force has to be fi lled with
Nest and her gang of
tunes, a new piece by John Williams and some the idea of love being the Force. Solo is about marauders in the Solo
of the old material. the good and the bad sides of love, and about score by using the
voices of a Bulgarian
friendship, family, hope, and wanting to be a women’s choir.
What guidance did the production team offer part of something.
when it came to scoring Solo?
My love for the scores that John Williams had The Solo score was recorded at Abbey Road
originally written meant that I was thoroughly Studios in London, and used an orchestra
familiar with them. The filmmakers told me that of the same composition and size that John
essentially I needed to score a heist fi lm. It’s Star Williams used. Was that important to you?
Wars, but it’s also a heist film and character piece. I felt we needed to have a connection with the
original movies, to make sure that everything
Did that allow you to paint a different picture matched. So we used a normal size orchestra
of the Star Wars galaxy through your score? with about 98 players in total, similar to the
In this film we were dealing with an underworld size of the London Symphony Orchestra. The
with pirates and gangsters. There isn’t any quasi- only unusual thing I added to the mix was a
religious nature to the film at all. It’s closer to The Bulgarian women’s choir, which has a very
Italian Job (1969) meets The Godfather (1972). I unusual chorale sound. I think it’s very effective
tried to take everything I loved about the series in the movie. It represents the strangely exotic
to help tell this story and explain everything we nature of the marauder gang. It’s a beautiful
thought we knew about the characters. sound that I used in a very aggressive way.
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