Los Bando

Crafting the music of LOS BANDO is without doubt my most time-consuming gig for a feature film so far. This is largely due to the fact that the film is about a band. So obviously, we need to find out what the band sounds like, and the band also needs its own songs. And the sound of every instrument in the band has to be painstakingly sync'ed and matched to the music performances in the film. We've therefore had frequent band rehearsals with the film's magnificent young cast, beginning a whole year before shooting. Yes, they actually had to learn all the songs they play in the movie, on guitar, drums and cello. Not a minor task (for any of us)!

Then, there is also the more traditional film score, which features a kind of "chamber pop" sound, with strings, clarinets, accordion, keyboards, guitars, drums and glockenspiel. And as the icing on the cake, I've also made a great deal of the film's "source music" (diegetic, in-universe music), including karaoke bar songs, Scooter inspired "Jesus techno", growl-based black metal from a noisy neighbour, and old school hip hop beats for a "beat boyz" dance performance. I was also involved in a kind of "music supervisor" role early on, helping to track down some of the other (existing) songs for the film's soundtrack, by some of the greatest Norwegian bands and artists (we're talking everything from Motorpsycho and Kvelertak to Didrik Solli-Tangen here). Heck, I have even spent some hours in Photoshop creating graphics for a fictional "Autotune" plugin, which can be seen for approximately two seconds in the film. It's all in the details!