Sound Of North Frans Bak

• 1 Prologue 05:07
• 2 Giant Leap 06:45
• 3 Emil's Dream 06:16
• 4 A Little Piece Of Winter 04:32
• 5 Sarah’s Theme 04:42
• 6 Sad Theme 05:22
• 7 Singing the Truth 03:04
• 8 Gemma’s Theme 05:10
• 9 Morale Chorale 07:32
• 10 Theis & Pernille 02:39
• 11 Epilogue 03:38
• Total Runtime 54:47

Info for Sound Of North

Inspired by his surroundings and the people that dwell within them, Frans Bak is focusing his evocative powers on the wider elements of his home region, touchingly capturing its unique spirit and affecting atmosphere with a series of new compositions. This new, personal work from the Dane attempts to communicate the mood of his north, both geographically and philosophically.

“I really wanted to capture the Sound Of North because we have something up here that’s a little different: a coolness, a calmness, a mindfulness,”

The Royal Danish Academy Of Music graduate has crafted an album of a truly intimate nature. Sound Of North’s 11 tracks reflect this outlook as freed from actor’s lines, screen cuts or, in the case of his Nordic Noir work, (fictional) murder.

Recording the album, Bak adopted an open approach, partly inspired by his background as a jazz composer. Meshing together a string quartet with electronic loops, the ethereal vocals of singer Josefine Cronholm and his own piano playing to create an adventurous, forward-thinking work. While also mixing new compositions alongside re-imagined versions of themes he scored for the US and Danish versions of The Killing and Doctor Foster.

“Some of these pieces I’ve returned to after eight years and I was able to revisit the music and find new ways into it,” he explains. “What was really satisfying was the chance to give the music the space it needed and wanted, the time that wasn’t there for it on screen. When you do a soundtrack you’re only one part of the story-telling process. With this record the music was the whole story.”

“For me this is only the first chapter, I see it’s an on going work,” he says of Sound Of North’s scope. “I travelled to places like Greenland and got really inspired. There’s a lot of space out there and I hope people find that in the music. With no limits anything can happen.”

Frans Bak
is a film composer with 30 years of music experience in the Scandinavian television and film industry.

He was educated at the prestigious Royal Danish Conservatory. After graduation he went on to play in several Danish bands, appearing as bandleader in over 100 TV shows. In 1988 commercial television launched in Denmark and Frans began scoring commercials.

To date Frans has scored well over 100 commercials. In 1990 Frans began scoring for film and television, covering all genres from symphonic orchestras to smaller ensembles and electronic scores. In 2002 Frans recorded his first TV crime series, Den 5:e kvinnan (aka “The Fifth Woman”) for Swedish Television. Later that year Frans composed all 20 episodes of the Emmy award winning Danish drama Nikolaj & Julie (aka “Nicholas & Juliet”).

Frans also scored the 3 time Emmy nominated TV series Forbrydelsen (aka “The Crime”) and Forbrydelsen II (aka “The Crime – Season 2”). Frans is currently working on the score for The Killing (AMC) adapted from the Danish format Forbrydelsen.

During his career Frans has scored 3 Oscar nominated shorts: Ernst & Lyset, Helmer & Son and Skal vi være kærester?

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