Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Greenwood’s last foray into feature films was his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Just as that score was derived from an earlier work, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, Greenwood’s composition expands upon an orchestral piece called Dogwood, which debuted last month.
The maverick musician announced the project at BBC’s Maida Vale studios, following Dogwood’s premiere. “I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead,” he told TwentyFourBit. “This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I [don't] think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written.” Greenwood is also listed on the film’s Imdb page.
Murakami’s 1987 novel, translated into English in 2000, follows Toru Watanabe’s nostalgic recollections of the late 60s. These memories are spurred by the sitar-strung sound of the Beatles’ Norwegian Wood. The film version is directed by Anh Hung Tran, and will be released in Japan in December.
In the meantime, the Maida Vale performance of Dogwood will be re-broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on 19 March. Greenwood’s first movie score, for the 2003 documentary Bodysong, will also soon see an encore: it will be released on DVD on 22 March.
(from guardian.co.uk)
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Thank God for that! Jonny’s string work is incedible. Cannot wait to hear this.
Although, it says ‘re-broadcast’. Is there a recording out there already?
hahaah how happy is this guy: http://www.pulk-pull.org/pulk-pull/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/murakami_radiohead_shaw.pdf
I love Jonny and his song.
This is only the start, then we will have split up news_ or maybe not IDK, give it time and mark my words
BS. They won’t be splitting up soon. Why would they when their about to release their second album that was made while the members pursued solo interests. This will officially be Jonny’s third album since in that span. Thom and Phil also have done recent solo stuff, but their still reporting on studio sessions and have toured a lot through that time also. BS on a split up for the time being, mark my words.
director tran anh hung already used radiohead tracks for his 1995 feature “cyclo” (creep) and his latest one, “i come with the rain” starring josh hartnett and elias koteas (climbing up the walls and some others). it’s cool to see that jonny is now doing the original score!
sounds a lot like david bowie in the film labrynth… within you… something…
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