Animal Collective compose score for upcoming documentary Crestone

Animal Collective compose score for upcoming documentary Crestone

Set in the desert of Crestone, Colorado over the course of eight days, Crestone follows a group of SoundCloud rappers who live in solitude, growing weed and making music for the internet. When an old friend arrives to make a movie, reality and fiction begin to blur. The debut feature from writer, producer and director Marnie Ellen Hertzler in partnership with Memory has been acquired by Utopia Media, and will be released on PVoD on February 16, 2021.

The film is scored by Animal Collective, one of the 21st century's definitive experimental acts, who will be releasing the film's score digitally on February 19, 2021 via Domino Soundtracks to coincide with the release of the documentary. Crestone (Original Score) will also be released physically on LP and is now available for preorder below.

Animal Collective previously created the audiovisual album Tangerine Reef (2018) in collaboration with Coral Morphologic, released Transverse Temporal Gyrus (2012) as the music for an installation at the Guggenheim Museum alongside the visual work of artist Danny Perez, and the visual album ODDSAC (2010), also in collaboration with Danny Perez. Crestone (Original Score) is the band's first film score. 

Brian “Geologist” Weitz and Josh “Deakin” Dibb on scoring the film:
"Living in the Sonoran Desert in the early 00’s had a long-lasting and profound effect on me, especially after multiple years in New York City. Since then I’ve had a vague idea for a sound that would reflect that experience, but no project ever led me to it. The images, sounds, stories, and structures created and documented in Crestone finally did. Many thanks to Marnie, her crew, Dead God, the land, and as always, my brother Josh for the inspiration and opportunity to work on this project." - Brian

"I met Marnie when I lived in New Orleans for a brief time in 2015 and we quickly became friends. When she approached me about scoring Crestone I was really excited about it. It felt really natural to ask Brian to team up on this project since we had already been collaborating on a handful of things as a duo in the previous year or so. Having wanted to score a movie for many years, this was an ideal first project to explore the process. For me, the initial phase of developing the ideas for this was just to pull up a scene and sit down at my piano and improvise to the energy I interpreted. In many cases this initial pass was recorded and used for the final composition. This process of using the images, characters, editing and practical sound as a sort of sheet music to play to was really freeing and inspiring." - Josh

Watch the trailer for Crestone below.


Available Formats

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Animal Collective Crestone (Original Score)

Album | 19th February 2021

The debut feature written, produced and directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler. Set in the desert of Crestone, Colorado over the course of eight days and set to an original score composed by Animal Collective's Geologist & Deakin. Crestone follows a group of SoundCloud rappers who live in solitude, growing weed and making music for the internet. When an old friend arrives to make a movie, reality and fiction begin to blur.

Tracklisting

  • 1Dome Yard
  • 2Eye in the Sky
  • 3Boxing & Breathing
  • 4Scavengers
  • 5Wake Up Ryan
  • 6Benz’s Dream
  • 7Sloppy’s Dream
  • 8Sand That Moves
  • 9Over the Sangre de Christo
  • 10EBS
  • 11Sad Boy Sleeping
  • 12Ramshack
  • 13Smoke & Broken Mirror
  • 14Zapata Falls
  • 15Oh California
  • 16Cotton Candy Sky (Dead God Theme)

Animal Collective Crestone (Original Score)

Album | 19th February 2021

The debut feature written, produced and directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler. Set in the desert of Crestone, Colorado over the course of eight days and set to an original score composed by Animal Collective's Geologist & Deakin. Crestone follows a group of SoundCloud rappers who live in solitude, growing weed and making music for the internet. When an old friend arrives to make a movie, reality and fiction begin to blur.

Tracklisting

  • 1Dome Yard
  • 2Eye in the Sky
  • 3Boxing & Breathing
  • 4Scavengers
  • 5Wake Up Ryan
  • 6Benz’s Dream
  • 7Sloppy’s Dream
  • 8Sand That Moves
  • 9Over the Sangre de Christo
  • 10EBS
  • 11Sad Boy Sleeping
  • 12Ramshack
  • 13Smoke & Broken Mirror
  • 14Zapata Falls
  • 15Oh California
  • 16Cotton Candy Sky (Dead God Theme)
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