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New In September 2015, Japanese musician[1] Ryuichi Sakamoto was announced as the composer for director Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s The Revenant.[2] The two originally came in contact with each other after Iñárritu used songs of Sakamoto’s in his 2006 film Babel.[3] Following a year-long professional hiatus in 2014 after being diagnosed with a type of throat cancer, Sakamoto’s work on The Revenant marked his return to the industry despite still being in the middle of recovery.[4][5] In October 2015, it was revealed that Alva Noto (the stage name for Carsten Nicolai) and The National‘s Bryce Dessner would join Sakamoto in scoring the film.[6] Alva Noto, a frequent collaborator of Sakamoto’s, was brought in personally by Sakamoto due to his concerns of health and fulfilling the scope of the score.[7] “What reason I called Carsten was simply, physically, the amount of music for this film is just gigantic,” said Sakamoto in an interview with Rolling Stone“And naturally Alejandro wants acoustic music, like strings or whatever and very, um, edgy electronic music. Processed music. So it seemed very naturally to call Carsten you know?”[8]
Primary scoring sessions with Sakamoto took place throughout October 2015 at Bastyr Chapel’s Seattlemusic Scoring Stage in Seattle.[9][10]
Milan Records released the soundtrack album digitally on December 25, 2015 and on CD on January 8, 2016.[11] While the soundtrack album features the music composed specifically for the film, there are many contemporary compositions featured in the film.[12]
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