The Legend of the Candyman, a son of slaves whose father became rich in 1890
after inventing a device for mass producing of shoes. The educated
Candyman was an artist, but when the daughter of a powerful man got
pregnant by him, her father hired some hooligans that saw off his right
hand with a rusty blade, took him to an apiary with dozens of hives with
hungry bees, smashed the hives and smeared honeycomb on his naked body.
Candyman was stung to death by the bees, then his body was burnt in a
giant pyre and the ashes scattered on Cabrini Green.
Rose's vision never was realized, he was jettisoned, the whole production got taken over by the studios who wanted to make it a run of the mill slasher flick. With that said, I really like Candyman and I actually think Rose' vision came across though it probably wasn't communicated to most people.
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Candyman is also tremendously important in the creation of Orange Mountain Music by artist Don Christensen. Christensen, a long-time friend of Glass was at a meeting one day, and he pointed out to Glass how the music for Candyman was a hot commodity on the bootleg market and that it should be considered for release. I believe at that time Glass had a record deal with Nonesuch who surely wouldn't have put such a thing out. So basically Glass told Christensen, "you want to put it out, put it out." Thus the creation of a record label able to release "archive" items like the score to Candyman. Candyman was the label's first release with the catalog number is OMM0003. Today, OMM's latest release is the Glass Chamber Players at OMM0069.
Glass had dismissed Candyman as bad in his mind because it seemed the experience of making the film and what he considered being duped was a negative experience for him. I'm very happy Christensen was so persistent.
The Candyman soundtrack begins with its most famous theme, that of the Music Box (Helen's theme.) I consider it one of the catchiest things Glass ever composed. Helen is a graduate student investigating the myth of the "Candyman."
Glass' sound palette for the film is a very gutsy one: chorus with organ. What was the last film score you remember being so limited and disciplined instrumentally? In this case it works. The only variation is the Music Box/Helen's theme is also played once on piano and once on celeste.
I really don't think the social commentary is lost in Glass' score. We are terrified of the boogieman along with Helen. However, the music drags us along with Helen as she wanders into the Cabrini Green projects in Chicago. The silly supernatural elements eventually engulf the story, but they mystery of what happened to Candyman remains. The artist who became immortal because of the injustice of his death which was caused by no other sin than love. These are all strong themes in Glass's other work as we were just discussing Orphe last week.
So here is "It Was Always You Helen" which appears at the close of the film combines Helen's Theme with the terrifying music for organ (Candyman) and a peaceful and harmonious chorus singing the film's second theme, as we watch the giant pyre burn in the projects we hear this music, something of a lullaby, as we (Helen) accept injustice as we die.
Im pretty sure that Glass did Candyman 2 because they had the right, as studios do, to use his music again for the franchise. He probably figured that since they were going to use his music anyway, and that there was nothing he could do about it, that he might as well be in charge of it and get paid for it while he was at it. To make something out of it especially after being duped on the first movie.
I have been searching for piano sheet music for any of the soundtrack songs from Candyman and have not been able to find any. Does anyone know where I can find any of them to purchase? In my opinion, Candyman has one of the best soundtracks EVER!
Candyman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2021 film of the same name. Featuring the film's score composed by Lichens who credited under his original name Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, the score consisted of vocal performances by the composer as well as acoustic instruments sampled and manipulated through recordings of various sounds at live locations. The album featured 34 tracks released through digital, CD and vinyl formats on August 27, 2021 through Back Lot Music and Waxwork Records.[1]
Director Nia DaCosta wanted the film as well as the score to be distinguished from the original 1992 film, but also unique and surprising as Philip Glass' soundtrack to the film. Instead of collaborating with mainstream composers in Hollywood, she chose experimental musician Lichens (credited as Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe) particularly because of his voice which was "so intense" and "on another level".[2] In the early conservations, DaCosta discussed about capturing multiplicity of voices as Candyman was not about singular person but being a continuity of people and wanted to capture it in the score.[3][4] Most of the vocals were performed by Lowe himself. In the recurring theme, "Rows and Towers", he stacked layers of his vocals on top of each other, serving as the theme for Cabrini-Green, the former public housing project in Chicago, the birthplace of Candyman.[5] He wrote it "not even thinking about the city in a broader context [...] but really honing it into the multitude of humans and their histories inside of this particular location. I think that was, for me, what was most representational, and having that piece as all voices. You get these different qualities of voices, different registers of voices inside, because you do have that multiplicity there."[6]
Lowe used his vocals, from low to high range from his diaphragm or the inside of throat or nasal cavity to produce different timbres.[7] In a sequence, where Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) sees his reflection in a mirror as Candyman, he performed 18 passes of various vocal tracks, sitting in an isolation booth in a studio. Lowe felt having a cacophony as there are multiple voices coming into Anthony's head, and felt important to have this cluster of sound, where the plays being multiphonic and multitimbral. The soundscape was filled with elements of what "one would think of as being in the realm of horror" but also influences avant-garde classical music where he performs them aleatorically.[8][9]
Lowe recorded non-vocal sounds on location, included the buzzing of electrical boxes and insects around Chicago being sampled, and taped some lines of the cast speaking, and stretched and manipulated them into "an unrecognizable, freakishly skittering sound". His friend and composer Hildur Gunadttir performed cello as well as providing background vocals. Some of the acoustic instruments were coaxed with instruments like contrabass and violin bow, which is produced in a sound similar to hurdy-gurdy.[8] The main title theme "Music Box" served as a nod to Glass, where the four main notes of the original theme "Helen's Theme/Music Box" played in an unchanged tempo with a pseudo-random movement, with Lowe incorporating contrabass notes in his front title. It was the last theme he performed as "I wanted to make sure I established my own voice and built my own world so the score can breathe on its own as more of an organism inside of the film."[8]
Charlie Bridgen of The Quietus wrote "It's always a challenge to talk about a score to a horror movie when you haven't seen the film, but the varied layers of Candyman make it fascinating to listen to. Yes, it's terrifying, but it's also beautiful and sad and challenging."[10] Music critic Jonathan Broxton wrote "In the end, if you found yourself being fascinated by scores like Arrival or Chernobyl or Under the Skin, if you see depth and meaning in the gimmicks of recording the hums of electrical outlets, or if you prefer your film music to be almost entirely free of melody, harmony, narrative structure, and diverse human emotion, then Candyman might be your score of the year."[11]
The score briefly made the shortlist for the Best Original Score at the 94th Academy Awards,[14] described by Variety as the "rare horror film" to compete for the list.[15] However, it could not make the final list of nominations.
Considering the absurdist theme, the actors do a pretty good job dealing with the script and storyline. I mean, come on, even as kids we thought apparitions in the mirror were kind of crazy. But this kudos to the actors is for the first two-thirds of the movie alone.
The original Candyman released, in 1992, had an iconic soundtrack from composer Philip Glass, including the Candyman's theme "Music Box." In the 2021 remake, the soundtrack has been composed by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, who took inspiration from the first movie as well as its Chicago setting.
"I went to the row houses in Cabrini-Green taking ambient recordings of the location. I went inside certain buildings to get the natural sound of the empty spaces as well as the insects, the wind, the helicopters going overhead.
The basic premise of Candyman is that there is some sort of mysterious figure with a hook for a hand that supposedly comes out when you say his name five times in the mirror. This leads a nearby grad student named Helen to investigate the rumors. Helen then begins relentlessly searching for answers in the nearby housing project of Cabrini-Green.
Based on the characters of Candyman and Helen we can see that the film has a large amount of racial commentary, yet most of it is very indirect. Someone just trying to watch it as a traditional horror movie could do just that and pick up very little political commentary. Not that it is especially subtle, just that it is more often within the visual design, cinematography, and editing, and less so in the actual dialogue between characters. In that way, it is up to the viewer to interpret the film and its themes for themselves. 152ee80cbc