The French-based musical collective Oiseax-Tempête has scored Ala Eddine Slim‘s new film ‘TLAMESS (Spell)‘. The critically-acclaimed Tunisian director first met the collective in the Fall of 2018, a few months before shooting was to begin. Discussing the film’s synopsis with the group, the director gave the collective musical “carte blanche” in composing the soundtrack with one caveat: the score should act as an evolving character in the film rather than as an ambient accompaniment to the movie.
Oiseax-Tempête’s core members Frédéric D. Oberland, Stéphane Pigneul, Mondkopf and Jean-Michel Pirès (Bruit Noir) began work on the score in the winter of 2018 and into the Spring of 2019. Using rushes from the film to guide them, the quartet recorded the soundtrack at Mikrokosm Recording Studios in Lyon with Benoît Bel, as well as on their own at Magnum Diva in Paris. While the collective’s music has been used in various film and media projects through the years, this was Oiseax-Tempête’s first original score.
Below, you can listen to the track “Drone Alpha.” Look for the soundtrack to ‘TLAMESS (Spell)’ to come out on February 14th via Sub Rosa/Differ-Ant. After the Soundcloud embed, you will also find a brief synopsis of the film.
‘TLAMESS (Spell)’ Synopsis: “S, a young Tunisian soldier, is told that his mother has died, and given a week’s leave. But thenhe starts to drift and doesn’t return to his military base, instead locking himself away in hisparents’ house. This passive form of desertion culminates in a manhunt through the outskirtsof the city. In the second part of this hypnotic diptych, a young woman, F, is also fleeing anoppressive situation. Married to a rich man and pining away in a luxury solitude she decides toflee the golden cage and disappears into the nearby woods. Eventually the two characters willmeet inside the strange forest”
