Universal
Music/ABC released La Spina’s “Always You” album hitting top #1 in the
Australia’s classical charts, arranged by Roger Julià.
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wrote nine of the 12 tracks on the album, and among the three cover tracks
there is Iron Maiden’s “Run To The Hills”, David Foster’s “The Prayer” and the
celebrated “Time To Say Goodbye”. It was recorded in Australia, performed by the
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
The Catalan Academy of Cinema awarded Roger Julià the Petit Gaudí. This was the first edition of the awards, which the Academy gives to Catalan people working in the Hollywood industry. The ceremony happened at the Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles. Other awardees are actress Claudia Bassols ("The Eagle Path"), producers Julio and Carlos Fernandez ("The Machinist"), the animators Jordi and Carles Grangel ("The Corpse Bride"), and the animator Xavier Pineda ("The Simpsons").
Roger completed the music for the feature "The Garden Of Eden", directed by John Irvin (Hamburger Hill, Shiner), starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Caterina Murino (Casino Royale), Jack Huston (Factory Girl), and Carmen Maura (Volver).
The film is about a suspenseful romance set in the jazz age years, prior to the depression, and follows a successful young American writer, David Bourne (Huston), and his beautiful new wife, Catherine (Suvari), on their honeymoon in the Mediterranean coast of France. Catherine soon becomes restless and starts to test her husband's devotion, pushing him to the limits of her imagination, up to the point that Catherine brings a sultry Italian girl, Marita (Murino), to spice things up. How will this romance "a trois" finish? We will have to find out on the big screen.
The book by Hemingway has a parallel story to the romance between the Bournes and Marita, about the hunt of an elephant during David Bourne's childhood, and his relation with his father (Matthew Modine of Full Metal Jacket). Roger wrote an original combination of African percussion, choir and other ethnic instruments, and the orchestral legacy of occidental music.
Roger wrote half the score at his studio in Los Angeles and the other half at Dean Street Studios in London. The score features some extremely beautiful erotic-dramatic melodies for symphony orchestra. Some of the music was recorded in London and all the orchestral music at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland.
Legendary mixer Dick Lewsey, of John Barry's James Bond 007, mixed the score at Phoenix Sound, from Pinewood Studios in London. Mark Stevens conducted the orchestra and Don Gallacher supervised the scoring.
