Danny Elfman

Danny Elfman – Violin Concerto “Eleven Eleven” and Piano Quartet (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:02 minutes | 673 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Inspired by the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1, [Danny] Elfman’s concerto is dramatic, lyrical, highly rhythmic, percussive (especially given its unusual cadenza-like back and forth between the violin and percussion), thoughtful and playful. The score is high adrenaline business, taking us on a musical roller coaster ride from the heights to the sudden-drop depth of emotions… The physical and emotional energy she [violin soloist Sandy Cameron] put into the work was downright compelling, exciting and extraordinary…The reception given her [Ms. Cameron] — and JoAnn Falletta and orchestra which were exemplary — was wild and crazy and prolonged, of the sort found at sports events. No question about electricity in the air.” (The Virginia Gazette)

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Danny Elfman – Dumbo (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:09 minutes | 670 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST) from the fantasy adventure film Dumbo (2019). Film music composed by Danny Elfman (Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Soundtrack, Fifty Shades Freed, Men in Black, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Batman Returns, Fifty Shades Darker, Justice League). Dumbo is a 2019 American fantasy adventure family film, based upon a story written by Helen Aberson, and is inspired by Walt Disney’s 1941 animated film of the same name. The film written by Ehren Kruger, directed by Tim Burton, stars Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Alan Arkin.

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Danny Elfman – Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:33 minutes | 385 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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With music by the Grammy Award-winning composer Danny Elfman, ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot’ is written and directed by Oscar Nominee Gus Van Sant and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, and Jack Black. Four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman has established himself as one of the most versatile and accomplished film composers in the industry. He has collaborated with such directors as Tim Burton, David O. Russell, Gus Van Sant, Sam Raimi, and Peter Jackson. Elfman has scored a broad range of films including: Milk (Oscar nominated), Good Will Hunting (Oscar nominated), Big Fish (Oscar nominated), Men in Black (Oscar nominated), and Edward Scissorhands.

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Danny Elfman – Big Mess (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:21 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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Big Mess marks Elfman’s first solo collection in more than thirty years, but it’s no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot. The songs here call to mind everything from Nine Inch Nails, to David Bowie to XTC at times, balancing dense, harmonically complex arrangements with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. Elfman wrote almost all of the record during quarantine, and while the anger, frustration, and isolation of it all is palpable in his delivery, Big Mess is about more than simply blowing off steam. In making the space to truly sit with his emotions and write without limitations, Elfman achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, rediscovering his voice and reinventing himself all at once in the process. Born and raised in southern California, Elfman began his career as part of a surrealist, avant-garde musical theater troupe known as The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo. The group would eventually morph into the critically acclaimed rock band Oingo Boingo, whose high-energy performances and genre-bending sound garnered them a fanatically devoted cult following in the 1980s and ’90s. Among the group’s early fans was fledgling director Tim Burton and Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), who enlisted Elfman to score their first feature film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. The collaboration would prove to be the start of a long and fruitful partnership for Elfman and Burton, with Elfman going on to score a string of iconic Burton features like Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. To date, Elfman has scored more than 100 films.

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Danny Elfman – Bigger. Messier. (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:39:01 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Electronic, Rock
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Danny Elfman delivers Bigger. Messier., an ambitious double-album collection of remixed and reimagined tracks from his highly acclaimed Big Mess album.This sprawling, 23 track collection features tracks reworked by some of the most groundbreaking and subversive artists around today.

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