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Explosions in the sky soundtrack new flick

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  • 29-09-2004 4:54pm
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    bandit
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    Friday Night Lights Soundtrack; Album Also Features Tracks
    From Daniel Lanois, David Torn, and Bad Company

    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Friday Night Lights, a film about
    Texas high school football, stars Billy Bob Thornton and premieres on
    thousands of screens on October 8, 2004. Appropriately, a Texas-based band
    provides most of the score -- but that music is far from what one might
    expect. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (Hip-O/UMe),
    released October 12, 2004, introduces Austin post-rockers Explosions In The
    Sky to their widest audience to date. Joining their tracks are contributions
    from Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan), acclaimed fusion guitarist
    David Torn and classic rockers Bad Company.
    Sheer instrumental beauty performed by two guitars, bass and drums,
    Explosions In The Sky is profound and emotional, intense and lyrical, moody
    and melodic, wordless and visceral. Selected by the film's music supervisor,
    Brian Reitzell, who also helmed the music for Sofia Coppola's films The Virgin
    Suicides and Oscar-winning Lost In Translation, Explosions In The Sky has been
    growing in popularity based on their superb live shows and word of mouth until
    now (higher profile exponents of post-rock are Scotland's Mogwai and
    Montreal's Godspeed You! Black Emperor).
    Since debuting in 1999, the band has released the albums HOW STRANGE,
    INNOCENCE, 2001's THOSE WHO TELL THE TRUTH SHALL DIE, THOSE WHO TELL THE
    TRUTH SHALL LIVE FOREVER and 2003's THE EARTH IS NOT A COLD DEAD PLACE (the
    latter two on Portland, OR, indie Temporary Residence). Their music has
    also graced the indie films cicadas and All The Real Girls. Their Friday
    Night Lights score was produced by Reitzell, who executive produced with the
    film's producer, Brian Grazer, and director Peter Berg.
    Lanois offers the mesmerizing "Sonho Dourado," a previously released
    track. A solo artist in his own right, Lanois is best known for producing U2
    (THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE, THE JOSHUA TREE, ACHTUNG BABY and ALL THAT YOU CAN'T
    LEAVE BEHIND), Gabriel (SO, US and the BIRDY soundtrack) and Dylan (OH MERCY).
    Torn, who has worked with David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bill Bruford, Patrick
    O'Hearn, Tori Amos and others, and been heard in the films Adaptation,
    Conspiracy Theory and Kalifornia, adds the original "Do You Ever Feel Cursed."
    From Bad Company comes "Seagull," originally on their 1974 self-titled album,
    a #1 pop hit that stands as one of the most important and accomplished debut
    hard rock LPs of the decade.
    Based on the best-selling book by H.G. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights
    chronicles the 1988 season of the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, TX, with
    players, coaches, pastors, boosters, fans and families struggling with ongoing
    personal conflicts while the team fights for a state championship.


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