Brian Eno is releasing his Top Boy score from original series for the first time
Brian Eno's score for the original Top Boy series is being released for the first time.
To coincide with the final season of Top Boy coming to our screens on September 7th, Netflix are releasing a selection of the artist's recordings from his soundtrack to the show on vinyl, CD and digital formats.
Aside from two tracks included on Eno’s album, 'Film Music 1976 - 2020', this will be the first time any of this material from the entire five seasons has been made available publicly. Eno has been composing the show's score since its launch in 2011.
“From the beginning of Top Boy, I was given the freedom to work in the way I prefer,” says Brian, “making music and atmospheres and then giving it to the film makers to use as they saw fit. I try to absorb the idea of what a piece is about and from that I produce a lot of music, and say, ‘Here it is. Use it as you wish.’
He added: “If you’d been scoring it in the conventional Hollywood way, the temptation would be to up the excitement factor, up the danger factor, all the time. But Top Boy is really about children in a pretty bad situation. So I explored the internal world of the children, not just what’s happening to them in the external world. Quite a lot of the music was deliberately naive, it was sort of simple. The melodies were simple, not really sophisticated, or grown-up.”
‘Top Boy (Score from the Original Series)’ is available digitally from 1st September, and in physical versions from 29th September.
Listen to ‘Cutting Room I’ below:
