“American Star” Original soundtrack
"A lovely score credited to Remate creates a limpid poignancy" The Guardian.
American Star OST. Remate / La Cupula Music (2024)
"Director Gonzalo López-Gallego creates a strong frame around the characters in both visual and narrative terms, while a lovely score credited to Remate creates a limpid poignancy" Leslie Felperin, The Guardian.
In American Star, the score acts as a kind of couch, a meditation on pause. The film has an existentialist, humanistic, and even philosophical dimension, and the music was a great way to manifest it. The mix of piano, guitar, and chamber quartet elements, along with the use of synthesizers, provides a unique and almost ghostly sound that perfectly complements the atmosphere surrounding the story. "The film's composer focused on the natural sounds of the island," notes Caitlin Dickenson in Set the Tape.
The soundtrack of American Star stands out for its intuitive and natural use of sounds. Before trying instruments, the music resonates in Remate's head for weeks, and only when the idea is tangible does he start recording in his studio, creating layers as if it were a canvas. One of the simplest pieces, Wilson & Gloria, emerged from playing the piano and guitar simultaneously, where the piano would anticipate the guitar, creating a dialogue between both instruments. This piece became one of the director's favorites.
AMERICAN STAR Original Soundtrack
Remate / La Cupula Music (2024)
Music composed, performed, and produced by Remate *
Remate: Piano, mellotron, synthesizers, guitar
Chamber quartet**: Ismael Campanero (Double bass); María Martínez (Cello); Ana Galletero (Violin); Ana Álvarez (Viola da gamba)
* OST recorded at his own Estudio #520W. Also at Wild Honey’s studio, Sunshine
**Recording and mixing: Dany Richter (El Lado Izquierdo)
Mastering: Nick Robbins. Sound Mastering (London)
Mixing: Lipsync (London)
American Star (2024) is a TAMARISKA INC & EMU FILMS PRODUCTION in association with AQUÍ Y ALLÍ FILMS AND CAYUGA FICCIÓN
Cover: Orlando
“La sombra del tiburón” ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Feverish, dreamlike, meditative, plastic, mutant. The soundtrack of La Sombra del Tiburón (MANTARRAYA FILMS, 2024) accompanies the plot, in a way it is its shadow. It determines its atmosphere and its very particular tempo.
La sombra del tiburón, Original Soundtrack
Remate / La Cupula Music (2024)
Feverish, dreamlike, meditative, plastic, mutant. The soundtrack of La Sombra del Tiburón (MANTARRAYA FILMS, 2024) accompanies the plot, in a way it is its shadow. It determines its atmosphere and its very particular tempo.
The original idea for the score, shared with director Gonzalo López-Gallego, was to turn dance music into a cinematic score. Remate became a strange, ghostly DJ, an almost omnipresent figure but with the appearance of the oxygen that Alma (Alba Galocha) breathes.
"There are many 'dance' musicians I admire, from Matthew Herbert to Jeff Mills. I also love even more abstract 'electronic' musicians like Brian Leeds. Not to mention that masters like Ryūichi Sakamoto and even Scott Walker have used synthetic instruments on many occasions, in a dreamy and also aggressive electronic key that I find magnetic. I had them all in my head for a while, then isolated myself and let things happen in my studio," says Remate.
The Roland JD XI synthesizer, the Critter and Guitari pocket piano, the Moog Grandmother, the Sledge Studiologic, the piano, synthetic percussions, rhythm boxes... all these are deployed throughout the time spent composing, almost as long as López-Gallego took to make his film, almost 3 years.
A lot of music that takes off with the intention of dancing and lands with a scenic and even somewhat relieving intention.
LA SOMBRA DEL TIBURÓN Original Soundtrack
Remate / La Cupula Music (2024)
Music composed, produced, and performed by Remate (synthesizers, piano, rhythm boxes, guitars…)
OST recorded at his own Estudio #520W
Mastering: Nick Robbins. Sound Mastering (London)
Cover: Orlando
La sombra del tiburón (2024) is a film produced by MANTARRAYA FILMS