{"id":432,"date":"2013-01-17T02:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=432"},"modified":"2013-04-25T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:13:11","slug":"atli-orvarsson-fusing-musical-styles-in-hansel-and-gretel-witch-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Atli \u00d6rvarsson: Fusing Musical Styles in Hansel and Gretel &#8211; Witch Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2186623\/height\/300\/width\/300\/theme\/legacy\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After enjoying a successful music career in his native Iceland, composer Atli \u00d6rvarsson moved to the U.S. and studied music composition at Berkley. \u00d6rvarsson eventually landed a plum scoring position on the hit TV series\u00a0<strong>NYPD Blue\u00a0<\/strong>with veteran TV composer Mike Post (<strong>The Rockford Files<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>The Greatest American Hero<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Hill Street Blues<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Magnum P.I.<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Murder One<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Law and Order<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Orvarsson eventually joined Hans Zimmer\u2019s Remote Control Studios, learning the ropes of composing for a wide variety of genres until he eventually landed several auspicious solo ventures, where he delivered a heavy, percussive design for\u00a0<strong>Vantage Point\u00a0<\/strong>(2008), and epic orchestral sounds for\u00a0<strong>Babylon A.D.\u00a0<\/strong>(2008).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/e\/CD_0290_Eagle2011.htm\">The Eagle\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2845\">M<\/a>] (2011) is perhaps his strongest work, in terms of scope and experimentation with natural sounds and folk instruments, and in his latest work,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/h\/MP3_0418_HanselGretelWitchHunters.htm\">Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6050\">M<\/a>], Orvarsson creates a kinetic m\u00e9lange of orchestral, folk, and rock styles to match the transposition of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale from wandering kids to a pair of adult bounty hunters, under the direction of Tommy Wirkola (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/3489_DeadSnow2009.htm\">Dead Snow<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Released on his own label, the music from\u00a0<strong>Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters<\/strong>\u00a0will be available January 22nd online, including via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;site-redirect=&amp;node=130&amp;tag=kqco06-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. 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