John Wick: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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| Film score by Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard | ||||
| Released | October 21, 2014 (digital) October 27, 2014 (physical) |
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| Recorded | 2014 | |||
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Soundtrack Hip hop Electronic |
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| Length | 62:33 | |||
| Label | Varèse Sarabande | |||
| Producer | Tyler Bates, Joel J. Richard, and Dylan Eiland | |||
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John Wick: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original soundtrack album to the 2014 film John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki and Willem Dafoe. It contains twenty-seven tracks from the original film score written and composed by Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard, with songs performed by Ciscandra Nostalghia, The Candy Shop Boys, and M86 & Susie Q, and features violin player Scott Tixier.
Having been friends for some time, as well as having and sharing common interests and taste in music, both Bates and Richard have wanted to work together musically for some period of time. Director Chad Stahelski and producer Dave Leitch approached Bates to write the score for John Wick after filming had completed, and it was then that Bates had the thought of working with Richard, explaining, "Joel came to the table with great ideas and a sensibility that was exactly as I felt we should approach the music."
On July 11, 2014, it was officially announced that Bates and Richard had composed the score for the film.
Both Stahelski and Leitch had expressed to both Bates and Richard they wished for the compositions of the film to be in line with John Wick's alter ego and former life, with Richard describing the two as wanting a "fun, raw, aggressive, unorthodox score", as well as the emphasis on the music of the piece being able to create an atmosphere to differentiate between the set pieces and fight sequences of John Wick. For the score of John Wick, Bates explained that the first words of musical direction that came from Stahelski and Leitch was that they wished for a score to "kick ass in the same aesthetic paradigm that IS John Wick's world", the combination of film and musical tonality.
To conceptualise the score both Bates and Richard were of the mind that the suitable approach to tackle such a score would be to "get into the headspace of John Wick" as well as understanding the tone and essence of Wick's story too, as opposed to jumping right into composition straight away without any emotional attachment. Of the opening sequence, Richard stated, "[It] was the first scene tackled. It was originally much longer and contained elements from the end of the film."Le Castle Vania, who are long-time collaborators of Bates and Richard, made their film scoring début by contributing several pieces of original music which was written specifically for various high energy scenes in the film.
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