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I REMEMBER YOU (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) (COLD SPRING)
We are extremely proud to release the official soundtrack to the cult Icelandic horror film 'I REMEMBER YOU' (Is: "Ég man _ig").
Heavy dark ambient / industrial / orchestral soundscapes composed by Frank Hall, with a beautiful, solemn, folkloristic finale featuring Icelandic choirs.
A must for fans of Graeme Revell, Steven Price, Lustmord, MZ.412. The soundtrack was created at the old industrial area of Grandi in Reykjavík, at a studio due to be 'gentrified' and forcefully emptied of the artists.
"I was alone in this large building in this deserted area, working late hours, making music for a horror movie.
It was during winter... wind blowing, darkness. There were some tense moments...". "As soon as I read the script, I heard low brass in my head and that kind of stuck.
We used a lot of brass instruments, filtered, and processed throughout. I also ended up using a lot of bowed guitar, sometimes doubling the brass, sometimes more like a sound effect".
Hall also used analogue synths on the special climactic track "Montage". On the finale, Hall reminisces: "Módir mín í kví kví (My Mother In The Sheep Pen) is an old Icelandic folk song.
The lyrics are based on Icelandic folklore about a woman who had a baby which she could not afford to have and left it outside to die, wrapped in a rag.
The infant then becomes what we Icelandic call "Utburdur" - the ghost of a child who has been left out to die.
Sometime later the woman wants to go to a dance but has no pretty clothes to wear. She is in the sheep pen attending to the sheep when she hears this whispering outside: "My mother in the sheep pen, don't you worry because I'll lend you my rag, my rag to dance in".
It is a rather ominous lyric, and this song is sometimes sung for Icelandic babies as a lullaby...
a little odd custom perhaps. I remember my mother singing this to me. This is one of my favourite Icelandic folk songs, and when I created the music for "I Remember You", which is about a lost child that haunts people, I suggested to director Oskar Thór Axelsson that I should make an Icelandic choir version of it and use it as a theme / credit song.
He loved the idea".