Making of the Music for Death of Evil

DEATH OF EVIL Movie Premier
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Regency Fairfax Cinemas
Los Angeles, CA 90039

When I first discussed the score for the film Death of Evil with the director, Damian Chapa, he was really passionate about a sound for the film. He mentioned the mood and feel of singer Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance).  I have been a fan of her voice and some of the soundtracks she has worked on, but I also saw an opportunity to bring some of my own inspiration from Wojciech Kilar (Bram Stroker's Darcula, The Ninth Gate) into the DNA for the score.


'Night Of The Gun'
Theme From Death of Evil
written and produced by Don Bodin


Unable to hear the track? Download the MP3 here.



Knowing that Damian really wanted a haunting/ethereal female vocal on the score, I wrote melodies and phases in latin and brought in my favorite operatic Soprano, Elif Savas (www.ElifSavas.com).

A few years ago I had the pleasure of sitting in on a film scoring class conducted by composer Charles Bernstein of Nightmare on Elm Street fame. Charles has an incredible way of breaking down music and the feelings they produce in simple and easy to communicate terms. As I focused on creating haunting and suspenseful themes for Death of Evil using pounding yet sporadic repetition in the rhythm and melody, I often reflected on some of the concepts Charles proposed.


With Elif's erie vocals set as the lead instrument, I took to creating a different group of instruments to perform the score and was drawn to the "junk yard" percussion sounds that Michael Blair made famous on Tom Waits's Rain Dogs album.
I loved how the harsh percussion was so jarring - the striking of trash cans and pots and pans under the traditional string orchestration playing traditionally as well as in contemporary styles with an ominous organ drone creeping below them all.

Death of Evil Film Premier

DEATH OF EVIL
Movie Premier

Location:
Regency Fairfax Cinemas

Date:
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Time:
6:30pm

Staring Natasha Blasick & Damian Chapa
Original Score by Don Bodin


'Night Of The Gun'
Theme From Death of Evil
written and produced by Don Bodin


Unable to hear the track? Download the MP3 here.

Campfire Companion Video

Linda Abbott (Blimpa Photography) made this video to my "Campfire Companion" song from the Radioactive Werewolf album

Vampiro Crawls from the Grave November 3rd

In July I had the pleasure of working with Director Jorge Ramirez Rivera and Editor Keita Ideno on the score for the film Vampiro.

The film was picked up for distribution before completion and is now scheduled for release on DVD on November 3rd 2009.

New "TuneCore" music player widget

TuneCore is now offering this very easy to make customizable music widget to allow users to sample music and access the iTunes music store right from the "Buy" button on the widget.

Easy to create, easy to implement into several existing social media website as well as custom web pages and emails.

It also allows the user to copy the code and share it on the social media website, blog or webpage!

I give it a big thumbs up!

Please share this widget that plays my new album on your blog or webpage, facebook, myspace page. . . it's easy. Hover over the album cover art work and just click on the "share" button (diamond shape) and choose the code you would like to generate.

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