Christopher Willis - Lamya's Poem (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '2023

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June 19th 2023, London. UK label MVKA and non-profit Unity Productions
Foundation announce the release of Lamya’s Poem (Original Motion Picture
soundtrack) by the Emmy-winning composer Christopher Willis Lamya’s Poem
is a full-length animated feature written and directed by cross-cultural
filmmaker Alex Kronemer and produced by Sam Kadi (The Citizen). The cast
features Millie Davis (Wonder) and Mena Massoud (Aladdin). Having premiered at
the 60th Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the film tells the tale
of 12-year-old Syrian girl Lamya who is forced to flee as war closes in on her
family home in Aleppo. Among the few possessions she takes with her is a book by
Sufi mystic poet Rumi, given to her by a kindly tutor. Facing grave danger,
Lamya finds more than just solace in Rumi’s words. Tumbling into a
mysterious and haunting dream world she meets the poet himself, as a young boy
running away from violence in his own time, the year 1221. Together they travel
through a fantastical land, battling the monsters that follow them from the real
world, as Lamya helps young Rumi find his calling and write the poem that 800
years later will save her life. Playing over the film’s opening credits,
‘Fireflies’ offers a graceful introduction to Willis’s
unique, imaginative score that interleaves lavish, melancholy set pieces
(‘The Dream City’, ‘The Parable of the Serpent’) with
disorienting threat (‘Storm Clouds’, ‘Jalal and the
Spear’) that sometimes erupts into violence (‘The Attack’,
‘Fighting Hate’). In conceiving the soundtrack, composer
Christopher Willis brought together chamber strings, harp, soprano, reed flute
and electronic sound design that draws on audio recordings of the sounds of
modern warfare, including bombs, tanks and breaking glass.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Christopher Willis - Fireflies (3:10)
1.02 - Christopher Willis - Listen To The Reed (1:20)
1.03 - Christopher Willis - The Attack (1:38)
1.04 - Christopher Willis - Meeting In The Dream World (1:38)
1.05 - Christopher Willis - Look Beyond This Moment (1:15)
1.06 - Christopher Willis - The Dream City (1:29)
1.07 - Christopher Willis - The Desert (2:00)
1.08 - Christopher Willis - Bombs (1:29)
1.09 - Christopher Willis - Leaving Home (2:18)
1.10 - Christopher Willis - Jalal And The Spear (2:14)
1.11 - Christopher Willis - The Beach (2:19)
1.12 - Christopher Willis - Storm Clouds (1:31)
1.13 - Christopher Willis - Into The Depths (1:33)
1.14 - Christopher Willis - A Song Of Separation (2:17)
1.15 - Christopher Willis - Entering The City (2:09)
1.16 - Christopher Willis - The Parable Of The Serpent (3:09)
1.17 - Christopher Willis - The Path Of Love (1:15)
1.18 - Christopher Willis - Fighting Hate (5:07)
1.19 - Christopher Willis - The Great Tree (2:31)
1.20 - Christopher Willis - Read, Lamya, Read! (1:42)

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