Neat montage of dancing sequences in multiple films.  I was actually happy that Strictly Ballroom made the cut, in addition to White Knights.  Both are two of my favorite films.

I've known Rich for a few years now - it all started when I interned for KNR Productions, a production company he co-owns with his brother and fellow producer, Kevin Ragsdale (Phantom Love, Big River Man, El Charro, Edmond).  One thing that continuously surprises me is the diversity of Rich's work.  Being the score freak and obsessive collector that I am, listening to Rich's music for the first time back in 2007 gave me one instinct: to get his music out there.  And, with serendipitous chain of events (and many years later), 2m1 Records became interested in his work after listening to a number of promo tracks.  Even better is the fact that I've been directly involved in their development in addition to writing the liner notes and information about each release.  Rich and I have been directly working on obtaining all the mastered tracks for The Curse of El Charro, Nickel Children, Big River Man, Masters of Horror: The Black Cat, and his most recent work to the upcoming documentary called The Mechanical Bride.  I've been having such a great time, and I'm so excited and humbled to be privy to such great work.

Each of these releases can be read about and previewed here by clicking the Music link up top, or an alternative method is going to 2m1 Records itself.  

Musical crossover happens occasionally, and the interesting element of recognizing it is that it's always instantaneous.  I guarantee that anyone who heard something in the past would recognize it at something familiar if they heard anything remotely similar five to ten years down the line.  Auditory recognition is ingrained in our genetics (that goes for most any animal), most likely a survival technique to remember sounds of our enemies.  

One interesting element to take note of is the musical similarity between Thomas Newman's score to Brothers and Laura Veirs' July Flame from her recent album of the same name.  No explanation needs to be mentioned - it's just a neat find.  Listen to the guitar motif and see if you can't spot a similar likeness.

Laura Veirs - July Flame

Thomas Newman - Homecoming (Brothers Score)

Update on Monday, August 9, 2010 at 7:57AM by Andy

Okay.  It's amazing how your mind finds similarities.  After listening to these two tracks back-to-back in detail, I find that they are vastly different in key and theme.  Still, the guitar does share some similarity.  At the very least, listen to some good music.  Am I right?