12 Years A Slave – Project Details

2013
12 YEARS A SLAVE, 2013, Directed by Steve McQueen

FILM CREDITS

Music by Hans Zimmer

Additional Music: Benjamin Wallfisch
Featured Musicians: Ann Marie Calhoun, Nico Abondolo & Tristan Schulze
Score Wrangler: Bob Badami
Music Production Services: Steven Kofsky
Score Coordinator: Czarina Russell
Music Editors: Catherine Wilson & Katrina Schiller
Technical Consultants: Brian Wherry, Chuck Choi & Victoria de la Vega
Digital Instrument Design: Mark Wherry
Score Mixer: Daniel Kresco
Recording & Mixing Studio: Remote Control Productions

Solomon Northup (1:55)
Main Title (0:28)
Bedtime (1:35)
Arrival In Washington (0:24)
Solomon In Chains (5:03)
Preparing For Travel (1:00)
Boat Trip To New Orleans (5:14)

Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch
Saragota Flashback (2:12)
River Rafting Claps (1:05)
Eliza Flashback (1:45)
Escape Sequence (1:32)
Time Passing Sequence (1:32)
Devasted Crops (0:51)
Plantation Life (Part A) (0:59)
Plantation Life (Part B) (0:56)
Judge Yarney’s Ball (1:10)
Letter Writing (0:52)
Solomon Burns The Letter (1:06)
Soap (3:38)
A Free Man (2:12)
Nothing To Forgive – End Credits (3:32)
12 Years A Slave

12 Years A Slave

2013 45'43 (Score: 3'56) Columbia Records
Release date : 11/01/2013
BOOKLET CREDITS

"Washington" & "Solomon"

Written by Hans Zimmer
Orchestrated by Benjamin Wallfisch
Keyboards: Benjamin Wallfisch
Violin: Anne Marie Calhoun
Cello: Tristan Schulze
Bass: Nico Abondolo
Mixed by Daniel Kresco
Assisted by Christian Wenger
Recorded & Mixed at Remote Control Studios

01 – Devil’s Dream – Nicholas Britell (0:29)
02 – Roll Jordan Roll – John Legend (2:47)
03 – Freight Train – Gary Clark Jr. (2:35)
04 – Yarney’s Waltz – Nicholas Britell (1:16)
05 – Driva Man – Alabama Shake (4:31)
06 – My Lord Sunshine (Sunrise) – David Hughey & Roosevelt Credit (1:13)
07 – Move – John Legend & Fink (3:50)
08 – Washington (0:25)
09 – (In The Evening) When The Sun Goes Down – Gary Clark Jr. (4:37)
10 – Queen Of The Field (Patsey’s Song) – Alicia Keys (5:37)
11 – Solomon (3:31)
12 – Little Girl Blue – Laura Mvula (4:30)
13 – Misery Chain – Chris Cornell & Joy Williams (5:08)
14 – Roll Jordan Roll – Nicholas Britell (1:57)
15 – Money Musk – Nicholas Britell (0:37)
16 – What Does Freedom Mean (To A Free Man) – Cody Chestnutt (2:41)

10 Comments

  1. Raphaelo August 16, 2018 at 6:39 pm - Reply

    @kiki: delete inferno for me aswell…

  2. Mephariel August 16, 2018 at 5:09 pm - Reply

    M:I2 is definitely a polarizing score. But I have to say, this is the first time I heard the criticism stylistically bland refer to this score. Because for most people who dislike the score, they think the score is too stylish.

  3. Mephariel June 4, 2018 at 8:45 pm - Reply

    Not sure if I agree. I understand the bigger point of your post that art house films have certain types of scores, but Britell's score for Battle of the Sexes was one of my favorites of last year, and one that touched me more than a lot of blockbuster film scores.

    Like I said, I get where you are coming from, but I don't agree with bashing "arthouse" composers and diminishing their accomplishments. They do genuinely great work from time to time.

    I also tend to love scores that are more restraint than most people, so maybe that is why I am excited about this. I love Solo, but not every score needs to sound like Solo.

  4. Mephariel June 4, 2018 at 5:13 pm - Reply

    Glad to see Zimmer doing a movie like this.

  5. Kent Öberg June 4, 2018 at 3:28 pm - Reply

    The trailer for Steve McQueen's new movie WIDOWS confirms that Hans is scoring it.

  6. Edmund Meinerts October 7, 2016 at 4:34 pm - Reply

    I know what it's called; doesn't mean I have to like it. ;)

    (And where you're hearing Part in this, I don't know…)

  7. JR March 10, 2014 at 8:03 pm - Reply

    as you said, one more "Time" ;)

  8. MacArthur March 6, 2014 at 4:31 pm - Reply

    Agreed I really liked 12 years score. It was very peaceful and moving.

  9. badbu January 14, 2014 at 3:53 pm - Reply

    mhh…don't like the score.
    wtf is "escape sequence"? :D

  10. trent easton navarro January 9, 2014 at 9:55 pm - Reply

    For me Nolan doesn't know how to use music in his films. The ones scored by Julyan are even worse. My fave Verbinski/Zimmer score is The Ring. One of the best horror scores of the last 10 years.

    yeah man, i love Goldsmith's original Star Trek score! Great theme, exciting action cues.That man knew how to score a film. No matter how terrible the film, Goldsmith usually always delivered the goods.

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