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Daniel Pemberton. Daniel Pemberton chronology. Cuban Fury. (2014) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Steve Jobs. (2015) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the Guy Ritchie -directed spy film The Man from U.N.C.L.E. based on the 1964–1968 television series of the same name.
- 2014–2015
- August 7, 2015
- "Out of The Garage"
- "Escape from East Berlin"
- "Bugs, Beats, and Bowties"
- "Breaking Out (The Cowboy Escape)"
- "Che vuole Questa Musica Stasera"
- "The Drums of War"
- "Take You Down"
"I tried to get this sounding as much like a1960s score as I could, but with a modern twist, where it sounds a lot bigger," Pemberton says. To bring an old school flavor to the tracks, the composer recorded riffs on old harpsichords, massive drums, and the zither-like chimalong to magnetic tape and mixed them through period-appropriate desks. Digit...
Jazz flute. The instrument conjures up images of Ron Burgandy's psychotic solos. But it's magic in the right hands (and on the U.N.C.L.E.soundtrack). Scouting for unique sounds, Pemberton hired a bass flutist whose specialty is classical concertos. "He has a side to him that's really defiant and crazy and he loves coming up with mad noises. So we j...
"During this bit is one of the very first synthesizers called a Jennings Univox—classic sixties. It looks like something out of Victorian Doctor Who. It plays one note. That's actually one of my favorite moments because the music is kind of stupid, like goofy. I always worried if I got to do a big Hollywood movie one day, I'd end up watering my mus...
Though Man from U.N.C.L.E. takes place entirely in Italy, Pembreton tinged the score with mariachi motifs. His explanation: Ennio Morricone, famous for his spaghetti Western scores. "Guy is a massive fan of Morricone and so am I," Pemberton says. "He writes beautiful melodies and does crazy, funny stuff as well.
Gagliardi's ballad begins with Napoelon Solo (Henry Cavill) dining on a picnic lunch and ends with the F.B.I. agent crashing a truck into a speed boat. Pemberton adores the song, but thought the track needed a little… push. "I did a whole string arrangement on top of it," he says. "It feels like part of the track and no one will ever know that that...
If this pounding track sounds like an army of drums sounding off at once... that's because it is. The list included Hungarian milk jugs, big bass drums, bongos, congas, castanets, shakers rototoms, which the composer describes as a 24-piece bongo set all tuned to different pitches. "We used pretty much every bit of percussion we could get in London...
When Pemberton finished one of the final musical moments in the film, the cue called for a "solid rock track." But it was missing something. Ritchie gave the composer the perfect idea: vocals. Once they found a singer with a larynx to handle the Morricone-esque wailing, Pemberton banged out the music. "I played the part on a really crap keyboard, s...
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August 3, 2015. Daniel Pemberton: Music for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. English composer's '60s sounds propel big-screen spy adventure by Jon Burlingame. Daniel Pemberton during U.N.C.L.E. sessions at Abbey Road Studios.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a 2015 spy film directed by Guy Ritchie and written by Ritchie and Lionel Wigram. It is based on the 1964 MGM television series of the same name, which was created by Norman Felton and Sam Rolfe. The film stars Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, and Hugh Grant.
