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US Premiere for the Documentary “Making A Killing” – Scored by Christoffer Franzen

juni 8, 2022
Christoffer Franzén, Composer, Making A Killing

Making A Killing.

Throughout last year I had the privilege of working with director Alexander J Farell, scoring the documentary film Making A Killing, which deals with medical malpractice laws in the US, and the ramifications this have for families that are affected by it all across the country.

The film premieres this Friday at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood, as part of the Dances With Films film festival.

Soundtrack release TBA.

 

https://www.makingakillingfilm.com

https://danceswithfilms.com/making-a-killing/

 

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Christoffer Franzen - Endeavour Artwork

New album Endeavour out now

maj 21, 2021
Christoffer Franzén, Endeavour

Endeavour is out now everywhere music lives.

“What originally started out as minimalist pandemic piano pieces quickly morphed into something completely different. Throughout all the years of writing music, I have learned not to interfere with creativity and to simply let it go where it wants and not try to control it. I found myself writing expansive arrangements that wove in and out of multiple genres and moods, ranging from full orchestral suites to ethereal synthesizers and electronics. Then I began to incorporate a lot of subtle guitar-work halfway through the writing process. It was around that time and with that combination of colors when I felt it all click together and I could see the entire scope of the album clearly,” says Franzen.

Franzen continues, ” The end result is something I feel very proud of…a widescreen collage of songs that fit together while at the same time are able to stand on their own two feet as individual compositions. There is a red thread that runs through Endeavour, from the opening piano chords of And We Collide Into Nothingness to the final atmospheric swirls of Distorted Dreams. Both the arrangements and the production on this album have been meticulously crafted to the best of my abilities, in order to give the listener an immersive experience that hopefully can quiet the noise of the outside world, at least for a spell. I spent over a year by myself in a room writing and recording this album and I am really looking forward to sharing these new pieces with the world. The album is called Endeavour, because that is exactly what it represented to me.”

Listen to the album: https://orcd.co/franzen-endeavour

“Ghost Of You” – The new EP from Christoffer Franzén is out now

september 24, 2020
Christoffer Franzén, EP, Ghost Of You

Christoffer Franzén´s new EP “Ghost Of You” is out now everywhere where music lives digitally, on Deep Elm Records.

”Ghost Of You is a selection of songs I wrote sporadically throughout the past two years in between albums and film scores. They all have a certain melancholy to them, which I used as a through line when putting the mini-album together. Each of these five tracks were written during Swedish winters, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that sense of melancholy sounds very Nordic to me. The sound of these songs is stripped back and relatively sparse, painting a vivid picture in my mind of a dark snowy night in the silence of a Scandinavian forest. When I listen to songs, especially Tainted and Splinter, I perceive them to almost be balancing between the beautiful and the dark, and that is where I wanted this mini-album to live. I firmly believe they can be one and the same,” says Franzen.

Download / Purchase the EP:

 https://orcd.co/franzen-ghost

Ghost Of You Artwork

 

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Christoffer Franzén releases `Mountain´solo-album

april 26, 2019
Christoffer Franzén, Mountain, Solo-album

Christoffer Franzén has just released a solo-album under his own name, called `Mountain´. Coming in at 13 tracks, this album is based around a felt-piano, strings and ambient elements.

“I wanted to limit myself to using a very organic and minimalist sound palette, and to try and create a record that felt very up-close and intimate.”

Purchase / Download the album on all services: https://orcd.co/franzen-mountain

`Mountain´ Announcement Video
Listen on Spotify


In I Dimman Album Artwork

In I Dimman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

december 14, 2018
Anastacious Soulis, Anders Hazelius, Christoffer Franzén, In I Dimman

The feature film `In I Dimman´, directed by Anders Hazelius and produced by Zentropa Sweden, is released today in cinemas, with an original score by Christoffer Franzén. The score is available to purchase and listen to wherever music lives.

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Dear Avalanche

februari 15, 2017
Christoffer Franzén, Dear Avalanche, Lights & Motion

Dear Avalanche

After two years of work the new Lights & Motion album has finally been released into the world! Dear Avalanche consists of 14 songs, and was released on American independent label Deep Elm Records, January 20th, 2017.

“This new full-length album was a huge undertaking, and I couldn’t be more excited to share this with everyone after the years I spent making it. Your reception has been more then amazing, and being able to let these songs out into the world is the ultimate payoff.#

It is now available worldwide digitally.

Spotify

iTunes

Deep Elm Records

 

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