NEWS FROM COSTA COMMUNICATIONS & SCREEN ARCHIVES


Sorry I have been absent the past few days, but other projects have had to take priority, I'm afraid. Besides, I have very little to review for you at the moment - it usually goes a little quiet in terms of CD releases this time of year. Anyway, here's some news:-

From Costa Communications:-

THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS and BMI

Present an evening with GRAMMY WINNING songwriter and composer JESSE HARRIS and singer ROCHA

Featuring a screening of ThinkFilm's THE HOTTEST STATE followed by a Q & A

TUESDAY EVENING, July 31, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

The screening will take place at:

Pacific Design Center
Silver Screen Theater (2nd floor)
8687 Melrose Ave (Melrose and N San Vicente Blvd)
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Jesse Harris wrote all the songs and composed the score for ThinkFilm’s "The Hottest State" soundtrack and serves as the album's co-executive producer along with the film’s writer/director Ethan Hawke. Together they assembled a peerless group of artists to record Harris' songs: Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, Cat Power, Bright Eyes, Feist, The Black Keys, M. Ward, Brad Mehldau, Tony Scherr and Argentinean newcomer, Rocha, who sings throughout the film and on the soundtrack in English and Spanish. Jesse Harris also appears in the film. The soundtrack will be released through Hickory Records.

Harris, who has known Hawke since the early 1990s, has released six albums as a solo artist. His songs have been recorded by Madeleine Peyroux, Pat Metheny, and Lizz Wright, and in 2003, he won a Song of the Year Grammy, for writing Norah Jones' smash hit "Don't Know Why."

Harris met Rocha, in Buenos Aires while he was on tour. Harris was looking for someone to sing the parts for the lead actress Catalina Sandina Moreno and asked Rocha to sing the songs for the film into a cassette recorder. He
played the tape for Ethan Hawke, who loved the innocence of her singing and immediately made arrangements to fly her to New York.

Adapted by Ethan Hawke from his own novel of the same name, THE HOTTEST STATE is a bittersweet romance that distills the joy, pain, erotic highs, and emotional lows of first love. Ethan Hawke directs and co-stars in the film along with Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Laura Linney.

THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) is the primary organization for actively-working professional composers and lyricists, with a distinguished
60-year history in the fine art of creating music for motion pictures and television. Current SCL Members include the top creative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused on many of the creative,
technological, legal, newsworthy and pressing issues of the film, television, game music industry today.

Now marking its 65th year in business, BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and publishers in all genres of music. With a repertoire of more than 6.5 million musical works from around the world, the non-profit-making corporation collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it then distributes as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents.

SCREEN ARCHIVES PRESENTS FOUR NEW DVDS ON FILM MUSIC AND FILM MUSIC COMPOSERS

For more detailed information, click on this URL:

http://www.screenarchives.com/email.cfm?eid=3