Bryan Weller - Anthem: Homunculus (Original Soundtrack) '2019

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Today Ghostlight Records releases the soundtrack to Anthem: Homunculus, created
by award-winning writer/director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry
Inch, Shrill) and composer/writer Bryan Weller, featuring original music and
lyrics by Weller & Mitchell. Anthem is an edgy anthology series produced by
Topic (Missing Richard Simmons) and distributed by Luminary, that tells a unique
American story through a distinct musical voice. A groundbreaking and ambitious
new podcast that combines music, drama, film and theater, Anthem: Homunculus is
the first of its kind to offer audiences an original, Broadway caliber
production in podcast form starring top talent, including Cynthia Erivo, Glenn
Close, Nakhane, Patti LuPone, Laurie Anderson, Marion Cotillard and Denis OHare.

In the premiere season, Homunculus, a broke, solitary, and bitterly funny
shut-in, Ceann Mackay (Mitchell), launches the worlds first online radio tumor
telethon to crowdfund his brain cancer care. The audience is taken on a darkly
hilarious journey of his life story through flashback and song until sudden fame
arrives when he realizes that what is killing him may be the very thing that
could save us all.

Anthem: Homunculus is a 10-episode podcast series produced by Topic and released
on Luminary. The soundtrack - featuring over 30 original songs by Bryan Weller
and John Cameron Mitchell, with Weller serving as producer - is out today. It
covers a range of genres including indie-rock, jazz, R&B, folk, soul, country,
baroque, dream pop, contemporary classical, and avant-garde.

Bryan Weller: When John and I set out to start working on the story and music,
the idea wasnt to write in an episodic format. But as the story grew in
magnitude, so did the scope of the music, with it being clear that all these
different characters in this world would have their own sound. So the songs came
to make up an eclectic, expressive world of contrasts and variety all their own.
The real songwriting began right after the presidential election of 2016, so
while this informed many aspects of the narrative, much of the lyrical content
and musical tone also reflect this. Theres anger and fear, but also resolution
and defiance, and ultimately hope.

Tracklist:
01. John Cameron Mitchell - Homunculus (4:14)
02. John Cameron Mitchell - Gog & Demagogue (3:21)
03. John Cameron Mitchell - Bend You to the Left (2:37)
04. John Cameron Mitchell - Toy Train (3:16)
05. John Cameron Mitchell - State Road (3:04)
06. John Cameron Mitchell - The End of Love (4:30)
07. Cynthia Erivo - Everybody Look (2:42)
08. James Monroe Igelhart - Whats So Wrong with That? (3:07)
09. Patti LuPone - Second Glance (3:41)
10. John Cameron Mitchell - If You Were Born (5:25)
11. Patti LuPone - I See What I Am (5:35)
12. Cynthia Erivo - Love You for Free (4:02)
13. Cynthia Erivo - The Cloud of Unknowing (Joan) (4:33)
14. Cynthia Erivo - Nobody Blink (3:45)
15. Cynthia Erivo - The New Messiah (4:34)
16. Cynthia Erivo - Hymn to Life (4:18)
17. Christopher Hanke - I Exist (3:25)
18. Denis OHare - Philosophers Stone (4:26)
19. Glenn Close - Dissolve Me (3:11)
20. Mari Moriarty - Duet with America (2:55)
21. Karl Saint Lucy - Father Angus Theme (1:50)
22. Karl Saint Lucy - Metaphor (3:55)
23. Nakhane - Prayer of the Mandrake (5:36)
24. Nakhane - Unborn/Unsound (4:28)
25. Nakhane - The Cloud of Unknowing (Jairo) (3:08)
26. Bryan Weller - Jairos Theme, Pt. 1 (3:41)
27. Nakhane - The Quiet Savior (4:27)
28. Bryan Weller - Solar Mass (6:46)
29. Laurie Anderson - The Unnameable (5:24)
30. Glenn Close - Move from Me (4:22)
31. Nakhane - The End of Love (Reprise) (2:39)

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