North Carolina folks singer Jake Xerxes Fussell and Chicago-based guitarist James Elkington have collaborated on the soundtrack for Rebuilding, a brand new movie directed by Max Walker-Silverman. The duo’s first original score arrives November 14 by way of Fat Possum, coinciding with the movie’s New York theatrical launch. Hear two choices—”Considering the Moon” and “Glow within the Darkish”—under.
“I may hear the cinema in it straight away,” producer Dan Janvey mentioned of Fussell in a press assertion. “His music is rooted firmly in all of the folkloric traditions I really like however by no means nostalgic. And that was very similar to the movie we had been making; a narrative by which the previous is throughout however firmly of the right here and now. And since a lot of his music has no lyrics, Jake already understood the problem of telling a narrative by way of instrumentation alone.”
Elkington added: “I feel Max had a suspicion that we’d be capable of improvise a few new items within the room, whereas watching the image, which turned out to be true. A few of our favourite cues had been written that approach—within the room whereas watching the image.” Elkington has produced Fussell’s final two albums—2022’s Good and Green Again and 2024’s When I’m Called, in 2024—and shared his personal newest solo album, Pastel De Nada, earlier this yr.
Rebuilding is Walker-Silverman’s first directorial effort since 2022’s A Love Tune. The movie follows Josh O’Connor as a cowboy whose southern Colorado ranch has burned down in a wildfire. It additionally stars Lily LaToree, Meghann Fahy, Kali Reis, and Amy Madigan.
