All Hat - O.S.T.

Product Description The soundtrack was produced by Lee Townsend, the band is comprised of many of the musicians Bill played with on his Grammy®-winning East West live album--Greg Leisz on pedal steel, Viktor Krauss (Alison's virtuoso brother) on bass, Jenny Scheinman on violin, Scott Amendola on drums and Mark Graham on harmonica. From the Artist In conversation with All Hat's composer, Grammy-winner Bill Frisell "It's hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell. Mixing rock and country with jazz and blues, he's found what connects them: improvisation and a sense of play. Unlike other pastichists, who tend to duck passion, Mr. Frisell plays up the pleasure in the music and also takes on another often-avoided subject, tenderness." --The New York Times Q. What first attracted you to work on All Hat? The script--All Hat is such a great story--and the chance to actually work on a film from beginning to end. In the past I've contributed songs to films, but nothing where I was in on it from beginning to end and doing the score. It's so interesting to work from the script stage, in this case I started working at script stage and was looking at scene edits before the film was finished shooting, and then took various passes during the editing. Q. Describe your approach to scoring the film. I write lots and lots of music with a vague idea of what I'm after, inspired by characters, a small detail, a sunset, will inspire melodies. It's hard for me to write one thing on command. I won't write one melody for a character, I'll write twenty and then sift through it all. When Len and Jenn first came down to see me I had narrowed it down to a few major themes which I played for them, and then I gradually honed in on what seemed right.I was able to bring in a bunch of people that I play with regularly and we sat down and jammed in front of a cut in Seattle, I had written the music, but it was such a luxury to have these people in front of me, we would take music I wrote for a scene but experiment with it quickly because we are so familiar with each other, and make changes to make the music work. Q. Is your approach to making a soundtrack different from making an album? There's a lot of similarities, though with the film you can't let the music just completely take off at any moment, the music is shaped by what's going on on the screen. When you're making an album you can let the music decide where the ups and downs are, whereas with a film you follow the ups and downs of the film--that's what I like about it, the film can push the music in ways that you wouldn't necessarily think of if you were just playing which to me feels like an education in music. The soundtrack was produced by Lee Townsend, the band is comprised of many of the musicians Bill played with on his Grammy®-winning East West live album--Greg Leisz on pedal steel, Viktor Krauss (Alison's virtuoso brother) on bass, Jenny Scheinman on violin, Scott Amendola on drums and Mark Graham on harmonica.