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Cabin Fever Music by Nathan Barr and Angelo Badalamenti La-La Land Records – 2003 |
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| After a couple dialogue clips, two grunge-rock
songs a band called By Your Mom, a tune by Scappy Hamilton and the odd but likable
"Walking’ Workin’, Lovin’, Laughin’ by the Turtlenecks the real
CABIN FEVER music begins. Nathan Barr composes the majority of the score. He does a magnificent job of creating foreboding atmospheric music. Barr’s choices for instrumentation are focused on creating maximum tension. In the linear notes, Barr mentions that he played every instrument without the use of synthesizers or samples. That is pretty amazing in today’s music scoring world and the organic instruments work well in a movie about a blood disease. The score feels very intimate and touches the human nerve. It is fascinating to read that Nathan Barr composed this score while purposely staying at a family cabin on a remote little island on Lake Michigan. The location definitely inspired Barr as his composition screams isolation and terror. Melody is thrown out for unadulterated dread and this score is better for that. You can almost feel the flesh sliding off as the cello and other string instruments screech out in pain. Though I’d like to add Barr isn’t afraid to have a bit of fun in a cut like "Lemonade." Angelo Badalamenti’s cues are character focused and provide some comic relief. It’s really cool to hear that Badalamenti promised Director Eli Roth that he would do a theme for Roth’s first film and then followed through with it. I don’t think that’s common and says a lot about Angelo Badalamenti. Badalamenti wrote six cues that are featured on this CD. You can catch CABIN FEVER by going to www.lalalandrecords.com |
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