Cabin Fever

Music by Nathan Barr

 

 

 

 

 

With original approach Nathan Barr´s soundtrack for Cabin Fever (2002) is a highly effective exercise in handmade composition. A rarity considering the coded approach of contemporary production.

Cabin Fever alternates several musical ideas, sometimes assuming rhythmically ways or others including country references (banjo in Dennis Bites). Curiously the composer avoids electronics to focus on string instruments like cello (as in Running From Rednecks and Karen Falls Apart) or violas (Burn the Heremit and What To Do, for example). In an almost random and intuitive process, Barr writes his first musical ideas in cello to complete them later.

 

"It's very satisfying to produce a track without help of samplers, synthesizers or other musicians. The final product is completely organic " - N. Barr

 

Completes the soundtrack rock and country (Your Mom, Turtlenecks) and also Angelo Badalamenti themes. Badalamenti´s most melodic approach resempbes his work for David Lynch as the jazzy rhythms (in Deputy Wisdon) or transcendence as Red Love that could be of Blue Velvet soundtrack. A very interesting musical alternative in a time of technical standardization.