The Damned Don't Cry [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

by Nadah El Shazly

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This is the third release by Asadun Alay Records.
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1.	Claustrophobic Love 03:11	buy track
2.	Fight With Auntie 01:09	buy track
3.	Run 00:58	buy track
4.	Counting Money 01:05	buy track
5.	Mausoleum 03:18	buy track
6.	Adi 07:12	buy track
7.	Riad 03:23	buy track
8.	More Lies 02:13	buy track
9.	Breakup By The Sea 03:06	buy track
10.	Cadeaux 02:44	buy track
11.	Haircut 02:24	buy track
12.	End Credit 02:53	buy track

about

In the midst of the deep Montréal winter of 2022, I received an email from Fyzal Boulifa, asking me to compose the score for his beautiful film “The Damned Don't Cry”. Fyzal had heard my debut album “Ahwar", and felt a deep connection with the music he was imagining for his film. His desire was that the music needed to be singular, like the film’s characters, and perhaps a little impolite, avoiding a banalizing effect which would diminish the characters’ depth. We experimented with many different musical avenues but eventually discovered that improvisation was the key to establish the precariousness and improvised quality of the characters’ existence. Gradually, this improvisational backdrop would gracefully evolve into something more refined and melodious, evoking a direct emotional response as the film unfolded. Towards the culmination of the story, the score would unabashedly embrace a classical melodrama, fully embodying the essence of the film - Nadah El Shazly

“Egyptian musician Nadah El Shazly’s score works as a finely calibrated counterbalance, becoming lusher and more classical when the story is at its grittiest, and even resolving into its most melodic moment at just the point that the characters are flying apart in opposite directions.” - Jessica Kiang (Sight and Sound, October 2022)

“Fyzal Boulifa’s follow-up to his acclaimed debut "Lynn + Lucy", "The Damned Don’t Cry" is impressive on every level. The performances are full-blooded and lived in; the camera finds a painterly beauty even in moments of despair and squalor. And the score, a discordant duel between cello and harp, cleverly evokes the disharmony between mother and son.” - The Guardian (July 2023)

credits

released March 29, 2024

Nadah El Shazly - composition, arrangements, voice
Sarah Pagé - harp, electronics
Jonah Fortune - double bass
Nicolas Royer-Artuso - violin

Recorded and mixed by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango, April 2022.

Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering.

Artwork and typography by Yazan Al Zubi.

This is the third release by Asadun Alay Records.
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