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Jonny Greenwood - Norwegian Wood OST

Review by Tom Perry

A solid addition to Greenwood's burgeoning catalogue, and worthy of a listen in its own right.»

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nonesuch releases guitarist / composer jonny greenwood's instrumental score to director tran anh hung's new film 'norwegian wood'. an adaptation of haruki murakami's bestselling novel, the film will be released in the uk on march 11th. the score is performed by the bbc concert orchestra led by robert ziegler, and the emperor quartet, and is produced by graeme stewart. the soundtrack album also features three tracks written and performed by can. in addition to his work with the band radiohead, jonny greenwood has made a considerable name for himself as a composer in recent years. his grammy and bafta-nominated score for paul thomas anderson's 2007 film 'there will be blood' (nonesuch) won the award for best film score at the evening standard british film awards and the ivor novello award for best original film score. his first solo project was a soundtrack for the simon pummell film 'bodysong' in 2003, and in 2004 greenwood became bbc radio 3's composer in residence. his work under this appointment included popcorn superhet receiver, which won the bbc radio 3 listeners' award at the 2006 british composer awards.
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