As a movie director/music fanatic with TNC, it was natural for me to pursue both mediums simultaneously so one would compliment the other, such as impressive Mp3 downloads scores that underlines the visuals of a motion picture or stimulating graphic imagery that punctuates an artist’s song to convey its overall mood.
TNC began exploring the vast landscape of group acts that could offer applicable music for the soundtrack for its first feature Nutcracker: An American Nightmare, a dark, psychological, Hitchcock like thriller that paid homage to Italian-European Giallo films of the 1970’s-80’s. We had a breakthrough when we got in contact with the very talented Julee Cruise [David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, ; also an on and off collaborator with Badalementi, J.J. McGeehan and Jermaine Dupri] who loved the story and composed two original songs: In Your World of Blue and Never Let You Go which completely captured the tone of the film and especially the main character, Dr. Carlton Fairfax II.
In addition, where we filmed (San Francisco, CA) there was another songwriter with musical talents in the area of Remix disco house, by the name of Joshua Gest. A member of Aisling Being, he specialized in this heavy, surreal Euro-style trance beat. He incorporated some of our dialogue and created a very impressive extended mix from our current Nutcracker theme versions.
I was and still am today very excited about these songs and how they gel together on the Nutcracker: Nightmare EP. It succeeds in the “replayability” category with some of these strengths: memorable pop hooks, original structure, beautiful vocals, addictive beats and grooves, cool samples, etc. The mood/sound ranges from a classic Twin peaks-esque feel to smoky and gothic to nervous and hypnotic. The club remixes are addictively danceable; Julee’s mysterious, introspective siren vocals and J.J. McGeehan’s dark nod to the underbelly of the lounge-lizard atmosphere combine to form tidal undercurrents of melancholy and dementia, which wash over us, pulling us into its eternal-riptide grasp.
5 Stars author: Tamara Turner, Music Reviewer
Pulled me in. Remember the TV show Twin Peaks? Were you one of the Badalamenti regulars who watched it as much for the charming, creep-out, beautifully psycho music as much as the plot? If so, this is a must-have album, featuring 2 totally exclusive Julee Cruise songs you can’t find anywhere else. And if the Twin Peaks music was your kind of thing, you’re in luck- this album brings you more of the eerie, dreamy & disturbed personality that made the show so distinct (& gave Julee a wave of fans).
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/cruisegest is one place where you can experience this cool soundtrack CD EP!
Glen Grefe/TNC
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