OLIVER COATES – Mary And George (Original Series Soundtrack) – LP – Half-Red / Half-Black Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition Hand-Pressed Half-Red / Half-Black Vinyl.

Preeminent cellist / composer Oliver Coates follows his scores forAftersun and Foe with a stately string and electronic orchestration for Tudor and Stuart-era period drama Mary & George. Coates score draws on his roots in classical, electronic and club music to accompany an adaptation of the non-fiction book The Kings Assassin by Benjamin Woolley, which outlines the romantic affair between King James VI and I and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

The score sees Coates reaching for a suitably lavish palette of strings, from symphonic to puckered chamber arrangements, sometimes underlined with Burial-esque beats and choral pads, as in France, or alloying the two in a way recalling Nicholas Britells Succession soundtrack. Theres enough harpsichord to make the ruffed-necks swoon, and Coates takes the license to distort sounds to taste when necessary, resulting a clear highpoint in his work, both solo and for film.

Tracklist:

Side One
1. Timp X
2. G In Motion
3. Howl & Freeze
4. Hunt
5. The Centre Of The Universe
6. Pulp
7. 1 Minute 1 Life
8. France
9. Joy
10. Two Weeks
11. How We Rise

Side Two
1. SCARS
2. Haunt
3. Slay
4. Present Danger
5. Mary Chopper
6. Release An Angel
7. Pig Mob
8. Butoh Baby 2
9. La Badinage Marias with outside sustain
10. Burning
11. Androgyny, lie in bed
12. Regicide
13. He Shall Ascend