As reported a few days ago by Pitchfork, fan of Westerns and bad-ass moustaches alike, Nick Cave and loyal Bad Seed/Dirty Three maestro Warren Ellis have collaborated on the score to new film The Road, due out in mid-November. If the pair's previous two collaborations, soundtracks for The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, are anything to go by, music fans will be in for a treat. Cave's delicate piano and Ellis' mournful violin combine to create lush soundscapes, tailor made for the big screen.Based on American author Cormac McCarthy's 2006 Pulitzer prize winning novel of the same name, The Road "is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted years before by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and, seemingly, most life on earth." (Wikipedia)
If that isn't an awesome premise upon which to write a dreary but beautiful score, I don't know what is!
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