Milan Records announces the June 5 release of Barkskins (National Geographic Original Series Soundtrack) With Music By Grammy® Award-winning saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer COLIN STETSON.
A highly-coveted collaborator to Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, Tom Waits, LCD Soundsystem, The National and more, Stetson brings with him an expansive body of work that includes both genre-defying, avant-jazz records as well as critically-acclaimed original scores for major film, television and game titles (Ari Aster's Hereditary, Red Dead Redemption 2). Available for preorder now, the album features music written by Stetson for National Geographic's new eight-part limited series based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Annie Proulx. Transporting viewers to the wild frontier of the late 17th century, BARKSKINS airs on National Geographic Mondays at 9/8c with back-to-back episodes over four weeks and next day release on HULU.
Of the soundtrack, composer COLIN STETSON says, "The ‘sound of the forest' was what I was first tasked with in generating the overall aesthetic and character of the score for Barkskins. Taken both literally and metaphorically, I based much of the sonic backbone on two pillars: Of an essence and feeling of wild and heavily wooded places, I combined the sounds of low bowed strings and my own voice, in unison and extreme glissando, to create an undulating melodic bed, deeply creaking and airy, as trees swaying in the wind. And literally, the actual sounds of the forest, those of red squirrels, finches, ravens, and I think a sea lion (whoops) all twisted and modified into a supporting sonic landscape within which to compose."