Brian Eno to release soundtrack score to ‘Top Boy’
nme.comNetflix has announced that Brian Eno‘s soundtrack for the series Top Boy will be released in various formats next month.‘Top Boy (Score From the Original Series)’ will be released on vinyl, CD, and digital formats, coinciding with the final season of the series.
This marks the first time that any of Eno’s music from the series, aside from two tracks included on Eno’s album, ‘Film Music 1976 – 2020’, will be available to the public.The first track to be released from the soundtrack is ‘Cutting Room 1’ which was a completely unheard track.
The song is one of two on the LP that Eno selected for inclusion though they do not appear in the series. Both tracks were written for Top Boy, hence their ‘Cutting Room’ titles.“From the beginning of Top Boy, I was given the freedom to work in the way I prefer,” said Eno in a press release. “Making music and atmospheres and then giving it to the film makers to use as they saw fit.
I try to absorb the idea of what a piece is about and from that I produce a lot of music, and say, ‘Here it is. Use it as you wish.”He continued: “If you’d been scoring it in the conventional Hollywood way, the temptation would be to up the excitement factor, up the danger factor, all the time.
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