my score for The Legend of Ochi is out now
d-Lo's first film score (some sort of projector metaphor here)
the legend of ochi is out now! you can stream the original soundtrack album everywhere — preorder the vinyl — and see the actual film in one of 1200 theaters nationwide!
i’m v honored to release the OST on the brand new a24 music label
does it seem as wild to you as it does to me that by some yardsticks (length, budget, number of performers) this is the largest thing i’ve ever made ?
it took a village. gratitude, love and praises to my team — jodie landau engraving and score copyisting, danny reisch mixing the hell out of it, dash le francis music editing, jodie and oliver hill on additional orchestration. to the orchestras — FAMES skopje of macedonia; synchronstage of vienna — the incredible chamber groups and choir members here in los angeles; the soloists radu nechifor, alex sopp, cory beers, and others — we made this thing together!
one of the beautiful things about the movies is the irreducibly collaborative nature of the work. i learned so much. armfuls of flowers for director #isaiahsaxon, who, in his openness and curiosity and tenacity, led me by the hand — and sometimes the ear — through this first scoring experience.
here’s isaiah talking a bit about our process at the special screening at vidiots in highland park, los angeles on thursday night:
there’s also a new dirty projectors original song in the score!
‘through the long and lonely night’ is a song that appears diegetically in the film, sung by a cigarettes-and-vodka-soaked russian bel canto’ist we found at an open mic in north hollywood. on the album, it’s me & maia & felicia & mike … more on that one soon
to me, this OST is, like, a bona fide album
film music can sometimes stand in a supportive/dependent relationship with story & image. that’s part of what’s beautiful & special & necessary about it. so … am i tooting my own horn — or simply evincing my own vulgar misreading of the form — when i admit that i feel this music both vibes with the picture and stands on its own two legs?
um, yes. but true credit goes to isaiah for demanding a score with a profound degree of detail and musical interest. he let me cook, as they say — and this thing is a meal. dig in!
welcome to the world, legend of ochi!
d
Circling back to this after finally seeing the movie and wow what a treat. The opening sequence was immediately captivating thanks in no small part to the score (evokes Vorspiel which I love). And I must’ve skimmed the reference to the diegetic nature of the actual song because I kept waiting for a scene in a tavern where you’d be singing it in the background or something haha. Great work to you and everyone involved