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Res dej inte! [stay down]
Full length CD, 29 tracks. Neuropa Records 2009
Original motion picture soundtrack for the featurette "Res dej inte!" aka "[stay down]".
The film is directed by talented Swedish director Richard Jarnhed, who has directed films, written scripts and worked in the Swedish film industry since the early 90s. The film was written by Erik Bolin, Sebastian Ylvenius and Richard Jarnhed.
The film is produced by Blue Monkey Univeristy and Fundament Film in collaboration with Studiefrämjandet NS-STHLM.
The project started as the brain child of Erik Bolin.
Read more about the project... (In Swedish)
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Story
A young guy is brutally beaten by a gang; a girl is threatened for her life to stay silent. Soccer hooligans plan the revenge. But who is really guilty?
A dark, realistic story, the film follows three youth gangs and their time spent on the streets and their lives. Over a relatively short span the characters deal with paranoia, pain, violence and more. This film is powerful and grim. The last scenes are totally unforgettable. The plot comes to a sudden end and there are no truths about what really happened. More than a film, Res dej inte! is a comment about the ongoing violence in society. Financially the film was supported by The Swedish Inheritance Fund and several other important organizations working with youth criminals, brain damage and more.
The film will have it’s opening at the Gothenburg International Film Festival in early 2010 and will also be broadcasted on Swedish National TV, in other film festivals throughout Europe and in Swedish schools for a long time. It will also be sold on DVD.
The music was composed with great care and it creates a darkness and focus as much as being authentic, organic and filled with suspense.
Here follows what director Richard Jarnhed wrote for the soundtrack release. The text can be found within the booklet.
A note from the director
"When Erik Bolin asked me if I wanted to do a film about street violence I felt no hesitation what so ever. Many subjects in life are important but few things have shaken and formed me more than street violence. When we researched and met experts, victims and perpetrators I was thrown back in time to my youth. I got a bitter taste in my mouth and realized, with severe hand sweat, how close I once were to pass away; something I had never understood before. Now, some 20 years later, this realization landed within me and I thought: ”This film is so important!”
For me, the dark inner sides of man are incredibly interesting. Foremost men’s evil and violent sides. Earlier I have dissected the evil that men do in a novel I wrote and now I got the opportunity to visualize it on film.
The leading words I gave the team were:
- timeless
- hard realism
- grey zones
- no real heroes
My musical references were close to my first leading word: timeless. I wanted to capture the sound and atmosphere of emptiness, the big city, primal forces, crawling malevolent ominous rumbling and darkness. The Didgeridoo and the pump organ were key tools I wanted used.
• During a walk in Balboa Park in San Diego I once heard a suggestive melody that dragged me further into the park. The experience became like a real life film scene. In the middle of the park promenade sat an elderly black man playing the didgeridoo with a mini hi-hat keeping the rhythm. When I passed and left coins the man changed the melody as thanks and smiled. I brought that feeling home and put it on Simon´s music table.
• I started to love the pump organ on Springsteen´s spiritual”Devils and Dust” tour. Springsteen alone on the stage with a couple of tools. The last song was Suicides”Dream Baby Dream”. The experience was suggestive and touched me as Springsteen created a magical and life-affirming hymn.
I conveyed the emotion a scene was supposed to have, I gave sounds and instruments as references and Simon could say: ”Ah, you want to portray the emptiness of Adrian. I will then go out and capture the sound of my trash shute. It will be awesome.”
The journey with Simon could be like this:
I conveyed the emotion a scene was supposed to have, I gave sounds and instruments as references and Simon could say:
”Ah, you want to portray the emptiness of Adrian. I will then go out and capture the sound of my trash shute. It will be awesome”
Truly. It came out great.
Other times I could act out the scene with rather strange descriptions and he always caught the ball. The strangulation scene is a good example. I told him how I as a 24 year old intervened when three guys tried to drag a girl inside a boat cabinet. The biggest of the guys had tribal tattooed biceps and got an iron grip around my throat. The feeling I felt is something I will never forget. That crazy adrenaline filled moment when I approached the bad guys and what followed, Simon captured in an uncanny and suggestive way which was totally perfect and cemented the scene to become what I was after.
When I sat down with Simon the first time I had a long list of things and sounds I wanted to be melted down into the soundtrack. I also had several soundtracks as references such as ”The Escape from New York”, ”Twin Peaks” &”Jacobs Ladder”. We were just about to begin the meeting when I saw that he had my favorite in his DVD collection: David Lynch´s ”Twin Peaks”. I immediately felt safe and at home. Then Simon opened with ”Do you like Jacobs Ladder”?
Check, double check. Jackpot again. ”Jacobs Ladder” is one of my absolute favorites. I could sit back and enjoy the journey with Simon. The journey into the dark and suggestive music that came to capture everything I wanted in ”Res Dej Inte!”.
I had found a music brother, as nerdy as myself.
Thanks Simon!
Director and Music Supervisor - Richard Jarnhed, Stockholm 2009