Musician Tim Hecker has scored his first TV series, the upcoming BBC Two production The North Water, which is based on a 2016 novel of the same name by Ian McGuire.
Much like the series itself, the score will release on Friday Sept. 10. It will first release on digital platforms, coming to vinyl in early 2022 as a joint release between Invada Records and Lakeshore Records.
Hecker offers some perspective on his work:
The score for The North Water was written just before and during the pandemic in 2020, mostly over arguably one of the darkest winters of some memory in Montreal. The music was an attempt to add depth and texture to a five-hour doomed arctic journey that charts a trajectory from hardened optimism into abject futility. We worked with a primary palette of synthesizers, electronics, and treated cello, in rich live spaces as well as suffocating dead ones. This version of the score is an enhanced mix of some of the material that made its way into the project.
The series runs for 5 weeks.
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TRACK LIST:
Seasick
First On Deck
Delirious
Seasick II
Left On The Ice
Our First Whale
Ice Row
It’s A Mistake To Think Too Much
The Warmth Of Drax
Winter’s Coming
Loot
A Breather
Seasick III
Twinkle In The Wasteland
Staring Over Again
