All is Lost

Sheffield’s cinematic soundtrackers Mark Daly and Michael Harding have worked together since 2005, establishing a reputation in the UK for their unique live re-score events, performing at cinemas, festivals and other venues across the country with cult films including Dark Star, Belleville Rendezvous and Un Homme Qui Dort and The Straight Story. For their latest project, Animat have composed and produced a new soundtrack for the survival drama film All Is Lost. Animat’s soundtrack uses elements from the film's sound effects track and combines them with their trademark dub-infused ambient electronica…

Someone opined a few days ago that the musical buck stops once you cross the alps and go South. In this guy’s august take on the scene, only classical music remains. But rock, folk and – for sure – metal take a nosedive to nothingness once you start cruising along the Po. And truly so, things change indeed, but not quite this way. From German precision, French bonhomie or the British stiff upper lip and lukewarm beer, you change into a more laid-back realm. But this does not mean non-existence of modern music, bad quality or – Loki forbid – a lack of intensity. Quite the contrary…