Morricone Youth

Morricone Youth
Origin	New York, New York, United States
Genres	rock and roll, surf rock, bossa nova, progressive rock, jazz,
Years active	1999––
Labels	Country Club Records
Associated acts	Creedle The Rugburns Crash Worship Palomar Pretendo Pain Teens Yellowbirds Fruit Bats Pronto
Website	morriconeyouth.com

Members	Devon E. Levins John Castro Dan Kessler Kenny Shaw Eric Reeves Evan Francis Brian Kantor Fraser Campbell Sami Smith

Past members	Robert Conroy Dreiky Caprice Karla Moheno Jefferson Rabb David Spinley Frank Molina Tony Roth Dale W. Miller Steve Walls Nervous Neal Smith Timur Yusef Sal A. Mander Greg O'Keeffe Ayo Awosika

Morricone Youth is a New York City band formed in 1999 dedicated to writing, performing and recording music written for the moving image (e.g., film and television soundtrack and library production music). The band is composed of present or past members of Creedle, The Rugburns, Crash Worship, Palomar, Pretendo, Pain Teens, Yellowbirds, Fruit Bats and Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco's Pronto.

The band regularly composes and performs original music to projected films (e.g., silent films, midnight movies, animated films) in live settings including Jean Rollin's Fascination (1979), David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977), Rene Laloux's Fantastic Planet (1973), Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), Ron & Valerie Taylor's Inner Space (1972), Robert Clouse's Enter The Dragon (1973), Jack Hill's Foxy Brown (1974), Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik (1968), Saul Bass's Phase IV (1974), George Miller's Mad Max (1979), Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) and Sunrise (1927). In addition to composing its own compositions and themes for such films, the band is committed to reinterpreting portions of the original score for each film it performs. Morricone Youth is currently in the process of recording and releasing a vinyl (and digital) LP or EP for each of the fifteen live scores it has performed to date. The first two, EPs for "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," were released in September 2016. A full length LP for "Mad Max" was released in January 2017 and the "Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans" LP is scheduled for release on August 9, 2017.