{"product_id":"daniel-blumberg_the-brutalist-original-motion-picture-soundtrack_2025_son_1","title":"The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)","description":"Nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Original Score, and shot in the sumptuous vintage VistaVision format, The Brutalist by Brady Corbet stands as a monumental cinematic work. The film opens with a mesmerizing 10-minute musical overture, composed by Daniel Blumberg, which immediately sets the tone for this epic fresco. The story follows Laszló Toth (played by Adrien Brody), a fictional Hungarian architect, in his quest to rebuild his life in America after the war. The original soundtrack, as ambitious as the film itself, blends sweeping brass orchestrations, intimate piano melodies, and flights of improvised jazz. Conceived as imposing, resonant blocks of sound, while remaining measured and stripped-down, the music perfectly embodies the aesthetic of brutalism: a meeting of raw monumentality and functional simplicity. To shape this unique sonic identity, Daniel Blumberg surrounded himself with avant-garde musicians and improvisers, traveling across the UK and Europe with a custom mobile studio to record his collaborators on location. By exploiting the tension between the freedom of improvisation and the rigor of scoring, he was able to obtain performances of remarkable richness and intensity from his musicians, including Axel Dorner (trumpet), Evan Parker (saxophone), Sophie Agnel (piano), and John Tilbury (piano). For a jazz club scene as frenetic as it is hypnotic, Daniel Blumberg assembled a quartet composed of Pierre Borel (saxophone), Simon Sieger (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), and Antonin Gerbal (drums), who performed improvised versions of his themes live, giving birth to one of the most electrifying moments of the film. Other period pieces also punctuate the soundtrack. For the film's Epilogue, set in the 1980s, Daniel Blumberg flew to New York to collaborate with Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Erasure), a pioneer of synth-pop. Together, they deconstructed and reinvented the main theme into an electronic, rhythmic version using synthesizers and drum machines, perfectly in tune with this new era. The mixing and co-production of the original soundtrack were entrusted to Peter Walsh, a long-time collaborator of Scott Walker, who also worked on Daniel Blumberg's three previous albums. A double CD edition, also released by Milan Records, includes the 32 tracks of the original soundtrack, accompanied by credits and film photographs, in packaging designed by Sebastian Pardo in collaboration with Daniel Blumberg.","brand":"Daniel Blumberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57516588204376,"sku":null,"price":23904920.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/daniel-blumberg_the-brutalist-original-motion-picture-soundtrack_2025_son_1","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}