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[all performances by Dan Wool except as noted]


From Alex Cox's
SEARCHERS 2.0

•• "Searchers 2.0 Main Title " 2:26

•• "White Funeral" 1:26

•• "Be Afraid " 1:10

Three tracks from Cox's comment on film making, spaghetti westerns and child rearing - with homage to Edvard Greig and respect to Ennio Morricone. Always Morricone.

Features:
Laura Albers - violin
Laurie Amat - voice
Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich - oboe
Heather Vorwerck - cello

SEARCHERS 2.0 soundtrack is available on
Dan Wool - Soundtrack for Searchers 2.0

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From Alex Cox's
REPO CHICK

•• "Money Bomb " 1:03

•• "Native Lingo" 3:45 (co-written with James Woody)

•• "Ownership Is Theft " 1:38

Music from the sublime non-sequel virtually "disappeared" by the production company responsible for its distribution.

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From Dan Lee's
JOURNEYMAN

•• "Gipper" 1:37

•• "Intro" 2:57

•• "Your Next " 2:15

Two lonesome road cues and one dramatic one from Dan Lee's brilliant experimental debut feature film.

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From Alex Cox's
THREE BUSINESSMEN

•• "Liverpool, England" (Main Title) 2:27
note: "static" on intro is intentional

•• "Plastic Food " 3:01

Synthonic cues from Cox's first and last X-mas film.

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From David Schwimmer's
SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE

•• "Soiree" 3:15

•• "Electra" 2:30

•• "Emasculated" 2:15

Three intoxicated latin big-band score numbers from Schwimmer's directorial debut. Co-written with Gary Brown.

Features (among others):
Gary Brown - bass
Karl Prazo - timbales & percussion,
Rebecca Santana-Mauleon - piano
Norber Stachel - sax
Michael Spiro - percussion

•• "Maria Sin Novio" 2:15
This SYBG track was also used in the ABC sitcom Jake In Progress. Co-written with Gary Brown

 

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From David Burton Morris's
THE ALMOST PERFECT BANK ROBBERY

•• "5 Mile Sweep" 2:04

•• "Where's the Money?" 2:20

From the director of the culty-cool Patti Rocks and And The Beat Goes On. A latin-hillbilly cue and some mystery-chase music from the TV movie almost too weird for network television.

Features:
Michael Wineke "the Huron Street Whistler"
Gary Brown - bass and percussion
Norbert Stachel - flute
James Woody - accordion and percussion

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From Alex Cox's
DEATH AND THE COMPASS

•• "Main Title" 3:17

•• "Trainyard Flashback" 1:33

Maniacal Main Title cue and a synthoid-ambient track from Alex Cox's feature film based on the Luis Borges short story. Features: the voice of Miguel Sandoval

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From Abbe Wool's
ROADSIDE PROPHETS

•• "Helmets R Bullshit" 1:00

•• "The Loneliest Road in America" 1:20

Two wide open road-music cues from the directorial aloha of screenwriter/electrician Abbe Wool

Features:
Michael Wineke "the Huron Street Whistler",
Gary Brown - bass
Rob Powell - pedal steel
James Woody - drums and piano
Jeff Beal - trumpet

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From Pray for Rain's
ROBOT ARM

•• "FailureModeAnalysis" 5:37

•• "Lillicute" 4:33

•• "Where All Times Merge" 5:50

Three teknobreak-ambitrance tracks from the background-source bin.

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From Sam Pillsbury's
ZANDALEE

•• "Dancing Bare" 3:00

By request, here is the New Orleans influenced Main Title music from this film that features Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold and Erika Anderson. Co-written with Gary Brown & James Woody.

Also included in the HBO documentary "Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways" New Orleans episode.

Features among others:
Zander Schloss - mandolin
Eddie Baytos - accordion
Gary Brown - bass
James Woody - drums

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From Alex Cox's documentary
KUROSAWA - THE LAST EMPEROR

•• "Kur-O-Rama" 1:49

Rock'em-sock'em end title music from Cox's documentary on the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa

Features:
Norbert Stachel - sax and flute

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From the FOX television series
KEYWEST

•• "Sex & Politics at the End of the World" 1:00

By request, the Celtic-Caribbean mash-up Main Title music from the short lived series that featured Jennifer Tilly and Fisher Stevens. Co-written by Gary Brown & James Woody.

Features:
Michael Spiro - percussion,
Jonathan Segal - mandolin,violin and accordion,
Angela Carsner - flute
Gary Brown - bass
James Woody - keyboards

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From Juan Garza's
NEVER TRUST A SERIAL KILLER

•• "Nocturnal Transition" 3:13

Big ugly remix of a cue from the independent feature starring Del Zamora loosely based on the story behind the capture of serial killer Richard Ramirez

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From David Burton Morris's
PRETTY POISON

•• "Sundown" 1:30

Lonely guitar cue from Morris's subversive TV movie remake

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From Christopher Leitch's
SHE FOUGHT ALONE

•• "Scared By Love" (main title) 2:09

•• "Alone Together " 2:23

By popular request, two tracks based on one musical theme from Chris Leitch's critically acclaimed TV movie drama

Gary Brown - bass
James Woody - drums