Zammuto, Nick
We The Animals O.s.t. (2lp)
Yellow/white/clear mash-up vinyl edition of 2000! The limited edition super-deluxe vinyl format is pressed onto 100% virgin vinyl, packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket, and includes a full-sized 28-page full-color diary, and an original animation print cell from the 'We The Animals' film production. 'We The Animals' is the award-winning film from Jeremiah Zagar ('In A Dream'). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, 'We The Animals' is Zagar's first narrative feature. It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film's setting in rural upstate New York -and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago- Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter - and betraying of its minimal instrumentation.