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Matthew Watson, Daniel Thomas Freeman

Catch Me Daddy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD)

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"The crystal in men's heads / Blackened and fell to pieces. / The valleys went out. / The moorlands broke loose" --from "Heptonstall Old Church" by Ted Hughes. So begins Catch Me Daddy (2014), the award-winning feature film directed by Daniel Wolfe and written by Wolfe and his brother Matthew. The film's score consists of beautiful and bleak wind-ravaged music from Matthew Watson (aka Matthew Wolfe) and Daniel Thomas Freeman (whose 2011 debut album The Beauty of Doubting Yourself Norman Records described as "a profoundly moving piece of music... highly recommended"). Set in the desperate and unrelenting West Yorkshire moors, the film follows Laila, a British Pakistani girl, and her Scottish drifter boyfriend, Aaron, in their attempts to escape Laila's violently protective family. The film was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival; star Sameena Jabeen Ahmed was named Best British Newcomer at the 2014 London Film Festival; and Ahmed was named Most Promising Newcomer at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards, where she was also nominated for Best Actress, the film was nominated for Best Achievement in Production, cinematographer Robbie Ryan was nominated for Best Technical Achievement, and the Wolfe brothers were nominated for The Douglas Hickox Award. Taking inspiration from such classics as Popul Vuh's score to Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Carmine and Francis Ford Coppala's Apocalypse Now (1979) soundtrack, and the opening moments of High Plains Drifter (1973), combined with the influence of Swans, Tim Hecker, and English Tudor-period choral music, Watson and Wolfe's score uses a deliberately limited instrumental palette of piano, percussion, and oscillators, twisted, gnarled, and ghosted beyond recognition to realize the sound of the biting moorland wind as it hammers against metal doors and rusted corrugated roofs and sings in lonely high tension wires and as distant choirs howl into the swirling darkness. The album is completed by a further seven unused themes selected and re-worked from the five hours of music written for the film. "Monkey Puzzle" and "Burning Fields I" narrate the original beauty and innocence of Laila and Aaron's dream, whereas "Gorse Wind" is forever lost in the moorland blackness. The oscillators and ghosts of "Under the Sodium Lights" and "Doubt" lead into the monumental distortion slabs and requiem of "Codeine Fuzz" before, finally, "Heath Land Siren" issues its rusted animal warning across the rain-sodden hills.

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File under: Stage & Screen
Cat. number: IMPREC424
Year: 2015
Tracklist
1Blackened Crystal
2A Walk Up Eldon Street / Hunting Through A Locked Door / Falcon (For Jay Ali) / Burning Fields III
3Dobrudden
4Descent From The Bridge
5The Moorland Broke Loose
6... On Calderdale Ridge
7Leave This Place
8Waiting For The Brake Lights
9Monument I
10High Tension Wires / The Infinite And The Unknowable (Excerpt II)
11Monkey Puzzle
12Burning Fields I
13Gorse Wind
14Under The Sodium Lights
15Doubt
16Codeine Fuzz
17Heath Land Siren
Credits
Daniel Thomas Freeman
Percussion, Effects [Oscillators], Producer [Processing], Written By, Producer, Engineer, Mixed By, Mastered By
Matthew Watson
Piano, Percussion, Written By, Producer