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Vinyl records London dig this New New Vinyl Records Double Vinyl by Jonny Greenwood. Nonesuch releases Oscar and BAFTAnominated composerJonny Greenwoods score to the new action comedy film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson,One Battle After Another. The album features eighteen new compositions performed by Greenwood on piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and ondes Martenot joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra and conductor Hugh Brunt, among others.Released via Warner Bros. Pictures in the UK on September 26,One Battle After Anotherstars Academy Award and BAFTA winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro, and Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. In the film, washedup revolutionary Bob DiCaprio exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving offgrid with his spirited, selfreliant daughter, Willa Infiniti. When his evil nemesis Penn resurfaces after sixteen years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.Anderson directs from his own screenplay. The producers are Oscar and BAFTA nominees Adam Somner and Sara Murphy and Anderson, with Will Weiske executive producing. In addition to Greenwood, the creative team behind the camera includes several other frequent collaborators, among them director of photography Michael Bauman Oscarnominated, BAFTAwinning production designer Florencia Martin BAFTAnominated editor Andy Jurgensen Oscar and BAFTAwinning costume designer Colleen Atwood and casting director Cassandra Kulukundis.One Battle After Anotheris Greenwoods sixth Nonesuchreleased Paul Thomas Anderson film score. Previous recordings include soundtracks toPhantom Thread,Junun,Inherent Vice,The Master, andThere Will Be Blood. Nonesuch also released his collaboration with Polish composer Krzysztof PendereckiThrenody for the Victims of Hiroshima Popcorn Superhet Receiver Polymorphia 48 Responses to Polymorphia, his score to Tran Anh Hungs filmNorwegian Wood, and his performance of Steve ReichsElectric Counterpoint.Indiewiresays of Anderson and Greenwoods collaboration Paul Thomas Anderson fans are well accustomed to how instrumental Jonny Greenwoods music is to the auteurs body of work. Whether its the foreboding strings inThere Will Be Bloodor the discordant percussion inThe Master, Greenwoods original scores expertly capture Andersons tones.Jonny Greenwood is best known for being the lead guitarist and multiinstrumentalist in the band Radiohead and more recently in The Smile. Radiohead have had phenomenal critical acclaim and huge popularity throughout their thirtyyear career, earning multiplatinum record sales along the way, and the signs are that The Smile too are destined for great success. But Greenwood039s musical passions extend far beyond rock music. He has an extensive back catalogue of classical pieces, film soundtracks, and traditional middle eastern folk music.Greenwood has always had a deep love for classical music. He has always held a fascination for Messiaen and Ligeti, for instance, and his first foray into music was as a young viola player, soon leading to him mastering piano, recorder, harmonica, and the ondes Martenot. He has penned a number of classical pieces includingsmear,Popcorn Superhet Receiver,Doghouse,48 Responses to Polymorphia,Water,andHorror vacuiIvors Composer Awardwinner for Large Scale Composition.Sections ofPopcorn Superhet Receiverwere reworked for the soundtrack of the Oscarwinning Paul Thomas Anderson filmThere Will Be Blood2007. Greenwood won Best Film Score at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, and Critics Choice Award for Best Composer by the Broadcast Film Critics Association of the USA, both in 2007. Other film scores composed by Greenwood includeNorwegian WoodTran Anh Hung, 2010We Need to Talk About KevinLynn Ramsey, 2011The Master,Inherent Vice, andPhantom Threadall Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012, 2014, 2017 respectively andThe Power of the DogJane C&ion 2021. He and Anderson also collaborated on the 2015 album and filmJununalong with Shye Ben Tzur and the Indian ensemble Rajasthan Express. Greenwood039s most recent work,Jarak Qaribak2023 is an exploration of traditional Arabic folk music working with musicians spanning the Middle East.
