As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of Brian Reitzell‘s music for NBC’s “Hannibal“. It’s a delightfully eerie blend of phantasmagorical dissonance with almost heavenly ambient beauty, perfectly accentuating the shockingly gruesome beauty that the show offered. And for Season 3, Reitzell crafted wondrous music that brought depth and fascination to stories that took us around the world in pursuit of Dr. Lecter as well as into the mind of Francis Dolarhyde, aka “The Red Dragon”.
Talking about the song “Love Crime”, which featured Siouxsie Sioux and was used to close out the series finale, Reitzell explains:
It will be quite emotional, for the fans, and I wanted them to have a souvenir. I wanted them to have a song. I wanted them to have a melody, because I’ve not been able to really do that with this show. But since we’re leaving — or at least taking some time away from the show, whatever the future is — I felt like I needed to give them something. Siouxsie was a fan of the show and she absolutely nailed it.
Reitzell also worked with Marc Almond (Soft Cell, Flesh Volcano) on the track “Snake Charmer”. He describes how this relationship came to be:
I had done a track built around the Mason Verger character and the notion that he was a bit inhabited with this lunatic / Brian Jones / Moroccan / LSD vibe. Marc was at the London premier along with Siouxsie and I think Bryan Fuller playfully asked if I was going to do a song with him. After the show ended I turned the Mason Verger piece into a song and sent it to Marc. He loved it and went into a studio and recorded a bunch of vocals that Ken Sluiter and I then took to finish the track… It’s a fun song, the opposite or maybe the flipside of what I did with Sioux which is fitting for the show with its dreamy yet totally absurd reality.
Today, we’re thrilled to offer all of you an exclusive listen to the soundtrack for Season 3, which, just like the previous two seasons, is split into two parts. Below are two videos that each tease their respective volumes.
You can order Volume 1 and Volume 2, both via iTunes.
