Over the Rainbow

by HTRK

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Beautiful soundtrack to a great documentary.

C.S. Nicholson Easy to forget or dismiss an instrumental soundtrack release, but as a filmmaker myself, "Anti-Twilight II" is an evocative music dream come true. Ambient heaven. Now, anybody know where I can watch the film? Favorite track: Anti-Twilight II.

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1.	Flower and Fruit 01:48	buy track
2.	Over the Rainbow 04:28	buy track
3.	Department Store 03:22	buy track
4.	Unselving I & II 01:54	buy track
5.	Unselving III 00:45	buy track
6.	Pressed in Glass I 02:48	buy track
7.	Pressed in Glass II 02:31	buy track
8.	Wonders of New Technology 02:14	buy track
9.	Anti-Twilight I 02:03	buy track
10.	Anti-Twilight II 05:10	buy track
11.	Aboard the Apollo 01:50	buy track
12.	Light 02:20	buy track
13.	Bio 01:20	buy track

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'Over The Rainbow’ is HTRK's soundtrack to Jeffrey Peixoto's Scientology documentary of the same name, providing us with a rare all-instrumental showreel that's testament to a haunting soul that’s long lurked under the hood of their singular, hugely evocative sound.

'Over The Rainbow' strips away HTRK's signature vocals and drum machines in a commission to fit the mood of Peixoto's feature - a film that seeks to better understand Scientology through a range of perspectives, from psychologists to former members. Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang use their considerable knack for conjuring haunting, heavy-lidded feels and ohrwurm hooks to map the mood, deploying a trademark, incisive sense of detachment that colours the film’s intersection of real beliefs and ideas of Scientology as a sect.

In the absence of Jonnine Standish’s vocals and Nigel Yang’s 808 boom, HTRK’s musick is pared to its essence of synths and electronics and painted in hazy, illusive strokes from a palette of smudged pastels mutual to both South California and the band’s native Australia. The result is a 13 part mosaic tiling hazy blue cues with aqueous ambient pads and baroque themes, playing out like the atmospheric strokes to LA noir in a way that silhouettes the film’s probing narrative and rhetoric and also reflects its fascination with American culture and the supernatural in a similar way to Eno’s ambient classics or Lynch flicks and their scores.

Ultimately ‘Over The Rainbow’ is an instant play-it-again entry to HTRK’s catalogue, one that supplies a sort of crystal ball window onto their practice and most subtly illuminates the duo’s masterful control of tonal sensitivity and floating, chamber-like composition.

Originally released via Boomkat Editions on 2 October 2019.

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released October 2, 2020

Written and recorded in Sydney and Melbourne, 2017-18.
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering Berlin.

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