Ramin Djawadi – in the world of music of the Wild West and Game of Thrones (+ playlist and notes)
Ramin Javadi (19 July 1974, Duisburg, Germany) is an Iranian-German composer and music producer. He is known for his score for the 2008 Marvel Studios film Iron Man and the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he received Grammy Award nominations in 2009, 2018 and 2020. He has composed music for films such as Clash of the Titans, Pacific Rim, Warcraft, A Wrinkle in Time and The Eternals, and television series including Prison Break, Person of Interest, Jack Ryan. , House of the Dragon and Westworld, as well as video games such as Medal of Honor, Gears of War 4, and Gears 5. He won two consecutive Emmy awards for Game of Thrones: in 2018 for the episode “The Dragon and the Wolf” and in 2019 for “The Long Night.”
Clinton Shorter – versatile Canadian composer (+ playlist and Notes)
Shorter was asked to score Blomkamp’s 2009 sci-fi film District 9 as “something ‘gritty and dark’ but still retaining its African roots.” The resulting music has been described by reviewers as “rhythmic” and “gorgeous”, as a “mournful ethnic composition”, and as having a “pseudo-exotic atmosphere, and a post-modern theme of loss”. The soundtrack was released separately on CD. In 2014, Shorter wrote the music for the action film Pompeii. He subsequently wrote music for the television series The Expanse and Colony.
Hans Zimmer – Oscar-winning film composer (+ playlist and Musical notes)
Hans Zimmer is a composer, author of music for popular films (“The Dark Knight”, “Angels and Demons”, “The Da Vinci Code”, etc.). Winner of an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Original Score (The Lion King, 1994), Zimmer received his second Golden Globe for the score for the film Gladiator (2010). The composer was also nominated multiple times for an Oscar for his compositions for the films “Rain Man”, “The Priest’s Wife”, “As Good As It Gets”, “The Thin Red Line”, “The Prince of Egypt”, “Sherlock Holmes”, “Inception”. In 2010, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Marilyn Manson – aesthetics of the ugly (+playlist)
January 5 marked the 55th anniversary of one of the most shocking, and even shocking, rock musicians in the world. Brian Hugh Warner, better known as Marilyn Manson, celebrates his birthday. Over the years of its activity – and the Marilyn Manson group was founded back in 1989 – its leader and only permanent member has gained a reputation as a fan of the cult of Satanism, which mocks people, mocks traditional values, and has a bad influence on young people: in a word, a person for whom nothing is sacred. That did not, however, prevent many of the band’s albums from achieving gold and platinum status.