William Ryan Fritch - Freeland (Original Soundtrack) '2021

Tracks list

William Ryan Fritchs original soundtrack for the award-winning film FREELAND is
out March 5th on Lost Tribe Sound. 

Directors Mario Furloni and Kate McLean created a captivating film about a woman
named Devi (Krisha Fairchild), who has been breeding legendary pot strains for
decades, farming by day and getting stoned by night, fully expecting to live out
her days on the remote homestead she built herself. But when cannabis is
legalized, the fragile balance of her whole idyllic life is thrown into
disarray. Forced to confront the rapidly changing realities of the weed
industry, she fights to go legal in an increasingly hostile landscape that is
threatening her whole livelihood.

This score was a labor of love, with Fritch working closely with the directors
for over two years while the script was still being written in order to find the
right musical identity for the film. The time certainly seems worth it, as it
produced perhaps the most original and otherworldly music he has ever created.
If youve paid attention to Fritch’s output over the last year with the
releases The Letdown and At Once, There Was No Horizon, the Freeland
OST’s radical exploration of horns, percussion, woodwinds and tape will
be a welcome next chapter. 

Film critics have lauded Freeland’s score with Variety saying, William
Ryan Fritch’s ethereal score invaluably contributes to a tale that feels
texturally just right.” This music does indeed evoke the films striking
redwood covered landscape in the emerald triangle. Its sound is a damp, dank and
mossy thing steeped in the mood and physical majesty of the beautiful, yet
severe topography of its Northern Californian setting. With waterlogged horns,
splintering clacks and wheezing reeds that at time evoke hints of Tom Waits,
Moondog, Colin Stetson, and Yair Elazar Glotman at their most guttural and
coarse, Freeland’s soundtrack is a bold and satisfying sensory feast. 

Tracklist:
1 01. William Ryan Fritch - Devis Last Deal (02:28)
1 02. William Ryan Fritch - Bygones (02:38)
1 03. William Ryan Fritch - Cited (01:42)
1 04. William Ryan Fritch - Threshing Floor (01:52)
1 05. William Ryan Fritch - Siren Call of the Land (01:17)
1 06. William Ryan Fritch - Outed (05:32)
1 07. William Ryan Fritch - Dropped (02:51)
1 08. William Ryan Fritch - What Youve Built (00:53)
1 09. William Ryan Fritch - Gnawing Away (03:42)
1 10. William Ryan Fritch - The Old Commune (02:10)
1 11. William Ryan Fritch - Husk (03:24)
1 12. William Ryan Fritch - Outmoded (04:22)
1 13. William Ryan Fritch - Submersion (06:54)
1 14. William Ryan Fritch - Resurface (01:51)

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