28 Days Later

Music by John Murphy

 

 

 

 

 

John Murphy is one of the most promising composers of the contemporary soundtrack production. His film music have the ability to stand out amid the sound design, dialogue, and (in this particular case) screaming and shouting.

Another merit: Murphy´s music is memorable after you saw the picture! Not many composers of contemporary cinema had achieved that. Considering that his music had no mutch chance in Snatch (2000), for it was lost among many pops tunes, or Sunshine (Solar Alert, 2007), loose among sound design and effects, then his work for 28 Days Later (2002), can be seen as his finest hour so far. The music of 28 Days Later has great atmospheric moments like The Search For Jim, Red Dresses and the instrumental rock of Rage, which highlight the composer as one of the most interesting today. Even if the soundtrack feels like a fragmented set, a great sound collage of voices, noises and musical genres, the original compositions Murphy stands over the others. Specially, In the House, a growing musical construction that became a contemporary classic in the genre. A model used in several other productions and trailers. The edition includes Ave Maria of Gounod, classic passages like the choral In Paradisum of Gabriel Fauré, and even parts of other soundtracks as the track An Ending by Brian Eno, from the Apollo documentary soundtrack (1983).