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THE KNICK Original Television Soundtrack Released

by Dave Elliott

Milan Records will release THE KNICK Original Television Soundtrack digitally and on CD release on Tuesday, September 23. The album, which will also be released on vinyl later in the year, features original music by composer Cliff Martinez (DRIVE, SPRING BREAKERS), a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

“Working on a TV series was a round-the-clock-for-10-weeks endeavor for me. Lots of coffee…not so much sleep,” said Martinez of his first real foray into composing for an episodic television series. The composer, who previously scored one episode of PEE WEE’S PLAYHOUSE, joked about his approach. “There’s nothing like a 10-hour series to help you squeeze the maximum mileage out of all your musical themes!”

Set in New York City in 1900, this new Cinemax drama series from Academy Award® and Emmy®-winning director Steven Soderbergh centers on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who push the boundaries of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. The newly appointed leader of the surgery staff is the brilliant, arrogant renegade Dr. John Thackery (Academy Award® nominee Clive Owen), whose addiction to cocaine and opium is trumped only by his ambition for medical discovery and renown among his peers. Soderbergh directs all 10 episodes of the series’ first season.

“As usual, Steven and I rarely spoke and instead communicated via mental telepathy,” said Martinez. “In so many words he told me: ‘We’re all going to recreate early 1900s New York as authentically as possible…except for you. I want the music to be modern and electronic.’

“For The Knick, I revisited a time-honored Soderbergh/Martinez tradition that I like to call ‘one thing,’” Martinez added. “I try very hard to score an entire scene using only one sound or instrument. It’s difficult and I usually end up cheating and using more. But by limiting the number of elements, I’m always guaranteed an expressively minimalist and fat-free soundtrack.”

TRACK LISTING

  1. Son of Placenta Previa
  2. I’m In The Pink
  3. Placental Repair
  4. Finish Your Breakfast
  5. Thus Speak Thack The Wise
  6. Never Read Him
  7. Aortic Aneurysm Junior
  8. Goodnight Nurse Elkins
  9. Drizzled Him Good
  10. Not Leaving This Circus
  11. Falling Off a Bicycle Plus
  12. Call Me Dad
  13. Fire It Up Again
  14. Pretty Silver Stitches
  15. Douse This
  16. New Standard Hernia Procedure
  17. Sail To Europe
  18. Abscess
  19. My Book
  20. Will It Hurt

THE KNICK is currently airing on Sky Atlantic. THE KNICK – Original Television Soundtrack on Milan Records is available now in the UK both digitally and on CD. It will also be available on vinyl later this year.

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