Music composer Angelo Badalamenti (“Twin Peaks”) is dead
He has written some of the most beautiful film scores of the last forty years. Composer Angelo Badalamenti has died aged 85.
What would “Twin Peaks” be without the soaring and melancholy music of Angelo Badalamenti? Inseparable from the work of David Lynch, the composer knew how to create his own sound, synth pads sometimes accompanied by an ethereal voice which had the ability to plunge us into the world of dreams and nightmares of the brilliant director. on stage. Born in New York in 1937, Angelo Badalamenti began as an arranger, notably for Nina Simone, before turning to film music.
It is of course David Lynch, also a musician, who will give him the first chance, for “Blue Velvet” and the magnificent song “Mysteries of Love”.
From then on, he chained collaborations until the mid-2010s, working with Paul Schrader, the duo Caro and Jeunet (“The City of Lost Children”), Jean-Pierre Jeunet alone (“A Long Engagement Sunday”), Danny Boyle (“The Beach”) or Jane Campion (“Holy Smoke”). Beautiful scores but which, without the images of David Lynch, do not have the same evocative power.
Because with Lynch, to conclude, he formed one of the most beautiful composer-director duos in the history of cinema, on the level of Nino Rota-Federico Fellini or Bernard Hermann-Alfred Hitchcock… A final example: the theme from “Mulholland Drive”,
