The first new Broadcast music in three years, in the form of
compelling music for 2012’s most acclaimed indie film ‘Berberian
Sound Studio’.

Peter Strickland’s ‘Berberian Sound Studio’, one of the most critically
acclaimed indie films of the year, gained comparisons to the mastery
of David Lynch and Francis Ford Coppola with The Guardian, The
Telegraph and Metro awarding it five stars and Time Out saying that
the “stylistically ambitious, morally radical, thematically complex
work… deserves the highest praise.”

This turns out to also be an apt description of the film’s sublime
soundtrack, composed by Broadcast (aka Trish Keenan and James
Cargill), before Trish’s untimely passing last year. On its own, the
music sets a sinister and atmospheric tone that still exists well within
Broadcast’s sonic universe.
· The record also represents the first new music from Broadcast since
2009’s ‘Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The
Radio Age’.
· James Cargill wove in sound effects, screams and snatches of
dialogue in order to bring elements of the film back into the
soundtrack. The outcome is a rare piece of film music that not only
enhances the visual, but exists on its own as an independent work,
and one that is an invaluable edition to Broadcast’s inimitable history.

James Cargill (Broadcast) on his inspirations: “Speaking specifically
about Italian soundtracks I think it’s the sentiment and texture in the
work of composers like Morricone, Nicolai, Cipriani, Trovaioli (too
many great composers to mention) that I’m fond of… a lot of it
crosses over into the pop and psychedelic music of the time and I
like the way they develop strong musical themes and then play with
the arrangements, which was what we tried to do with Berberian