Scott Walker Announces ‘The Childhood Of A Leader’ Soundtrack

Full score to gain standalone release...

Scott Walker has recorded the soundtrack for upcoming film 'The Childhood Of A Leader'.

The was film was partly inspired by the Jean-Paul Sartre novel of the same name, and it's billed as a tense psychological drama, set against the 1919 Treaty Of Versailles.

Scott Walker has recorded the score, his first soundtrack project since the remarkable 1999 release Pola X.

Long-term collaborators Peter Walsh (co-producer) and Mark Warman (musical director) helped piece the soundtrack together, with sessions utilising 46 string players and 16 brass.

Check out a snippet below.

'The Childhood Of A Leader' will be released on August 19th. Tracklisting:

A1. Orchestral tuning up
A2. Opening
A3. Dream sequence
A4. Village walk
A5. RUN
A6. Down the stairs
A7. Up the stairs
A8. The letter
A9. Versailles
B1. Cutting flowers
B2. Boy,Mirror,Cars arriving
B3. Third Tantrum
B4. Printing press
B5. On the way to the meeting
B6. The meeting
B7. Post meeting
B8. Finale
B9. New Dawn (synth layout for cut scene)

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