The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Original Score, and shot in the sumptuous vintage VistaVision format, Brady Corbet's The Brutalist stands as a monumental cinematic achievement. The film opens with a mesmerizing 10-minute musical overture, composed by Daniel Blumberg, immediately setting the tone for this epic fresco. The story follows László Toth (played by Adrien Brody), a fictional Hungarian architect, in his quest to rebuild his life in America after the war.
The soundtrack, as ambitious as the film itself, blends sweeping brass orchestrations, intimate piano melodies, and improvised jazz flourishes. Conceived as imposing and resonant blocks of sound, yet measured and refined, the music perfectly embodies the aesthetic of brutalism: a convergence of raw monumentality and functional simplicity. To forge this unique sonic identity, Daniel Blumberg surrounded himself with avant-garde musicians and improvisers, traveling across the UK and Europe with a custom-built mobile studio to record his collaborators on site. By exploiting the tension between the freedom of improvisation and the rigor of scoring, he elicited remarkably rich and intense performances from his musicians, including Axel Dörner (trumpet), Evan Parker (saxophone), Sophie Agnel (piano), and John Tilbury (piano).
For a jazz club scene that is as frenetic as it is hypnotic, Daniel Blumberg brought together a quartet comprising Pierre Borel (saxophone), Simon Sieger (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), and Antonin Gerbal (drums), who performed improvised live versions of his themes, creating one of the film's most electrifying moments. Other period tracks also punctuate the soundtrack. For the film's Epilogue, set in the 1980s, Daniel Blumberg traveled to New York to collaborate with synth-pop pioneer Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Erasure). Together, they deconstructed and reinvented the main theme into an electronic, rhythmic version using synthesizers and drum machines, perfectly aligning with this new era.
The mixing and co-production of the soundtrack were entrusted to Peter Walsh, a long-time collaborator of Scott Walker, who also worked on Daniel Blumberg's three previous albums.
Two editions are available:
A 180-gram double vinyl, released by Milan Records, with printed sleeves and an elegant gatefold package designed by Sebastian Pardo, The Brutalist title designer, in close collaboration with Daniel Blumberg.
A double CD edition, also released by Milan Records, including all 32 tracks from the soundtrack, along with credits and film photographs, in a comprehensive package.
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