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Jonny Greenwood records soundtrack for Murakami adaptation
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 9 March 2010
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood will provide the soundtrack to the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel ‘Nowegian Wood’. The score will be based on a composition written by Greenwood for the BBC Concert Orchestra, which was debuted at Maida Vale Studios last month.
Speaking about the piece, Greenwood said: “I wrote [it] mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead. This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I can’t think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written”.
The film is expected to be released in the autumn. It is being directed by Oscar nominated French director Tran Anh Hung and stars Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi and Kiko Mizuhara.
