Angelo Badalamenti

The filmmaker David Lynch turned to his haunting work again and again, for “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and other neo-noir films.

Mr. Lynch, who described Mr. “It’s the dead of night,” Mr. He and Mr. The notes finally came to him in the shower, he recalled, and he hurried downstairs to his piano. Lynch met when Mr. “It has a violence and a sincere sentimentality — sadness but not despair.” “It’s very romantic but can be terrifying,” Mr. The station videotaped and broadcast the show, and the Monday after Christmas, Mr. [“Gordon’s War,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0fSppLA-qM&list=OLAK5uy_lJvJY_NqZlavvpd5Gi89q8Rt2CNvnoJG0) a 1973 blaxploitation film. [“I Hold No Grudge,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R24tPPzX0l8) in 1965. [she sang “Blue Velvet”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP-X1eZLEtQ) at the Slow Club in Lumberton, N.C., a flower-filled, picket-fence kind of town with a very dark side.

Badalamenti collaborated with an eclectic mix of singers in virtually every genre during his long career, including David Bowie, Nina Simone, Dame Shirley ...

After scoring a variety of mainstream films, including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Badalamenti once again collaborated with Lynch on the cult TV show, Twin Peaks. Throughout his long career, he collaborated with an eclectic mix of singers in virtually every genre, including David Bowie, Nina Simone, Dame Shirley Bassey, Patti Austin, Sir Paul McCartney, Liza Minnelli, Roberta Flack the Pet Shop Boys and LL Cool J. Badalamenti collaborated with an eclectic mix of singers in virtually every genre during his long career, including David Bowie, Nina Simone, Dame Shirley Bassey, Patti Austin, Sir Paul McCartney, Liza Minnelli, Roberta Flack, the Pet Shop Boys and LL Cool J.

Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to ...

He also wrote “The Flaming Arrow” Torch Theme for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the theme for “Inside the Actors Studio.” But it’s his work with Lynch that hovers above them all, which would include “The Straight Story,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive.” He wanted the music to be dark and abstract,” he said. He also wrote songs for films like “Gordon’s War” and “Law and Disorder” but his big break came in 1986 when, through a series of industry connections starting with unit manager Peter Runfolo, he was asked to help Isabella Rossellini sing “Blue Velvet” for Lynch’s iconic film. “They were shooting down in North Carolina, and so they flew me down to meet with Isabella and to see what I could do. He composed a Christmas carol for his students that ended up on PBS and essentially launched his career in entertainment, where he wrote songs for Nina Simone (“Another Spring”) and Nancy Wilson (“Face It Girl, It’s Over”). During the summers he would play piano at resorts in the Catskills for the Borscht Belt acts.

A tribute to Angelo Badalamenti (1937-2022), the legendary composer of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr.

[Roger Ebert](/cast-and-crew/roger-ebert) beautifully captured the tone of Badalamenti’s score in his four-star review, writing, “There are fields of waving corn and grain here, and rivers and woods and little bed barns, but on the soundtrack the wind whispering in the trees plays a sad and lonely song, and we are reminded not of the fields we drive past on our way to picnics, but on our way to funerals, on autumn days when the roads are empty.” Of all the tracks on that album, the one I treasure the most is “Rose’s Theme,” which we first hear as Alvin and his devoted daughter Rose ( [Sissy Spacek](/cast-and-crew/sissy-spacek)) savor a night sky filled with stars. Badalamenti is equally fearsome and oddly hilarious in his cameo as one of the thuggish suits in “Mulholland Dr.” who swoop in to take ownership of a director’s film, all the while criticizing the coffee offered to them in the most grotesque manner imaginable. The film’s score engineer and re-recording mixer, John Neff, told me earlier this year [in an interview](https://indie-outlook.com/2022/05/02/john-neff-on-the-straight-story-mulholland-dr-and-inland-empire/) how he recorded the score, mixed it, and then mixed it into the film in 5.1 surround. Whether she’s stepping out of the darkness or delivering her hopeful monologue about the robins, Sandy is the score’s ray of light, which contrasts with the melancholy glow of Dorothy ( [Isabella Rossellini](/cast-and-crew/isabella-rossellini)), whose crooning of the title tune is accompanied in the film by Badalamenti himself on the piano. Badalamenti and I shared a birthday, March 22nd, and it was in the year of my birth, 1986, that the composer forged his first phenomenally successful collaboration with Lynch in the director’s fourth feature, “ Anderson) snapping away to “Dance of the Dream Man,” Audrey Horne (

Badalamenti won a Grammy award in 1990 for the evocative soundtrack, and worked closely with the popular series' director David Lynch.

The Twin Peaks soundtrack won him the 1990 Grammy award for best pop instrumental performance. Badalamenti won a Grammy award in 1990 for the evocative soundtrack, and worked closely with the popular series’ director David Lynch. US composer Angelo Badalamenti, best known for scoring Twin Peaks, has died at the age of 85, his family has confirmed.

The New York-born composer was best known for collaborating with director David Lynch on the eerie scores of films including 'Blue Velvet', 'Mulholland Drive', ...

He also collaborated with artists like David Bowie, Nina Simone, Paul McCartney and even our own Dolores O'Riordan throughout his illustrious career, and even composed the opening theme of the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Badalamenti also scored a host of other famous films, including 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' and 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 3'. However, it is the music of 'Twin Peaks' that remains his most enduring legacy - and his score for Lynch's cult TV show bagged him a Grammy for 'Best Pop Instrumental Performance' in 1990.

With composer credits on over 50 feature films, Badalamenti started his film career as co-composer alongside Al Elias on Ossie Davis' 1973 crime drama Gordon's ...

His big break came in 1986, when David Lynch hired him to be Isabella Rossellini’s singing coach on crime mystery Blue Velvet. Badalamenti won the 1990 Grammy for best pop instrumental performance for the Twin Peaks theme. It was the first of 10 collaborations with Lynch, which included the Twin Peaks TV series which ran from 1990-1991, the 1992 feature Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and the show’s 2017 revival.

In addition to his work with Lynch, the American composer collaborated with the likes of Dolores O'Riordan, Nina Simone, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, ...

[December 12, 2022] [December 13, 2022] I wanted to cry because it just felt so familiar and beautiful and somehow sinister at the same time. But the music throughout the series calms me and soothes me so much "He taught me many things but primarily how to Enjoy the recording process. [yesterday's instalment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2FiFAuQOK8) of his Weather Report series, stating: "Today, no music." We laughed from the beginning to the end of the record we made together, never had a disagreement. Badalamenti earned the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his 'Twin Peaks Theme'. Honestly the first time I heard that theme tune it stirred something up within me. I love him."

Marianne Faithfull pays tribute to 'Twin Peaks' composer Angelo Badalamenti, who made her album 'A Secret Life' with her.

“He came to me with this idea and asked me to write the words, and I did,” she said. “He was really charming, and so, so talented,” she says. “I’m going to miss him a lot.” “And then he wrote the music and then it turned out really beautifully. “I really adored him,” she says. “It was just outstanding and so good and exactly the sort of music I wanted to do,” she tells Rolling Stone by phone from her London home.

Angelo Badalamenti, the composer behind several beloved soundtracks, including David Lynch's cult hit "Twin Peaks," has died at 85.

“I tried to make the music have a haunting feeling,” Badalamenti said in 2019 of his “Twin Peaks” score. “The advice was not to follow your dreams, that is too willy-nilly,” she said in a statement to CNN. “Today – no music.” And that’s what he did and now he leaves us with these gifts of true art, this beautiful, visceral art.” And even on those projects, Badalamenti injected some of his unique musical trademarks – namely, the subtle darkness he infused most of his scores with. When producers were seeking a composer to score the film, Badalamenti won Lynch’s favor with an original song, to which Lynch later wrote lyrics, called “The Mysteries of Love.” It’s how I use certain dissonant things, and I pride myself on that.” He taught at a Brooklyn public school after graduating from college and composed music for a televised production of “A Christmas Carol.” He The creative dynamos collaborated closely: While composing Laura Palmer’s theme for “Twin Peaks,” Lynch sat beside Badalamenti’s keyboard and set the scene: Lynch saw dark woods, heard a soft wind blowing through a sycamore tree and an owl hooting. It’s a far more hopeful, personal tale than typical Lynch fare, with a score to match. When Lynch finished dictating the scenes, he leaped up to hug Badalamenti. During this time, he often worked under the pseudonym Andy Badale.