Albums
Room 2 Dream (2023)
'Golden Hour of Home' from the Room to Dream Album is now digitally released, and available on all major music platforms.
Room2Dream is an immersive music and 360 film installation made by young people across the world, exploring the theme of Home.Young people from fourteen centres across the world have worked together on a cycle of shared songs. Through the eyes of young people, we are taken on a journey from Zimbabwe, Rwanda, South Africa, Gaza, Syria, India and Nepal to England and Scotland as they explore what home means for them.A year’s collaboration between schools, children’s hospices, hospital schools and refugee centres involved creative writing, song making and 360 filmmaking.
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Tin & Tina (2023)
Jocelyn Pook’s soundtrack to the Spanish psychological thriller film ‘Tin and Tina’ has just been released digitally and is available on all music platforms.
‘Directed by Rubin Stein, the film is set in Spain in the 1980s and tells the story of Lola and Adolfo, a young couple who decide to adopt when they are told by a doctor that they can’t have children. They visit a nearby convent where they have the pick of children to adopt. Initially, their intention is to select a baby but when Lola’s heart goes out to twins Tin and Tina, who she immediately feels sorry for when she hears them say nobody loves them, they decide to take the blonde-haired kids back to their home. The new parents soon regret their decision. Tin and Tina have a strong belief in God and the Bible but they take this belief to literal extremes.’
Jungle Book reimagined (2023)
Jocelyn Pook’s new album Jungle Book reimagined will be out on 31 March 2023 via Real World X.
Akram Khan’s Jungle Book reimagined is an extraordinary re-rendering in ballet of Rudyard Kipling’s short stories for a world facing an environmental crisis, with a score that emerges from it fully-formed – whispering, sighing, calling, roaring.
Coinciding with Jungle Book reimagined’s run at Sadler’s Wells, with some of the score reworked boldly and beautifully to let the music soar without dialogue, Pook’s album takes us out of the theatre and deep into the sonics of the journey of Mowgli.
Jocelyn Pook : John Smith, Blight (2022)
JOCELYN POOK had composed and recorded only one film score before she was commissioned by STANLEY KUBRICK for Eyes Wide Shut - and that was Blight by JOHN SMITH. Newly remastered, the soundtrack is presented here in full for the first time, with an additional track composed by POOK (revisited and extended for this release): Tango with Corrugated Iron.
This record has been produced to coincide with JOHN SMITH: INTROSPECTIVE (1972–2022), the most complete survey of his film work to date, presenting 50 films from a 50-year career. INTROSPECTIVE will launch at the ICA on October 1 with POOK and SMITH in conversation, and a music-themed film programme.
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Drawing Life: Remembering Terezin (2021)
“This is music that comes straight from the human heart, that is, with its sufferings, hopes, and
fleeting joys.”
Jocelyn Pook releases the album Drawing Life: Remembering Terezin, commemorating the 15,000 children interned in the concentration camp, established 80 years ago in 1941.
Featuring singers Melanie Pappenheim and Lorin Sklamberg, Drawing Life: Remembering Terezin was inspired by the drawings and artworks of the children interned in Terezín concentration camp. These works were featured in the 1994 collection I Never Saw Another Butterfly, named after the poem by the young Pavel Friedmann who was held in the camp.
The Wife (2018)
“Jocelyn Pook’s understated musical score may well be the film’s true hidden genius. We are carried along the slow pace simply because we are soothed by Pook’s music...”
Jocelyn Pook’s soundtrack to the The Wife has just been released digitally and is available on all music platforms.
With an original score by Jocelyn Pook, The Wife is a 2017 drama film directed by Björn Runge and written by Jane Anderson, based on the novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. Starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater, the story follows a wife who questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, who is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Staircase (2018)
“Jocelyn Pook’s resonant, haunting music”
The Staircase is an award-winning docu-series which centres on the trial of author Michael Peterson who, after the mysterious death of his wife, watches his life go under the microscope. The series premiered in 2004 in France on Canal + and the following year on BBC Four with eight episodes in the UK and on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. The real-life courtroom thriller offers a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial and an examination of contemporary American justice.
All episodes are available on Netflix.
King Charles III (2017)
King Charles III, with music by Jocelyn, has been adapted by Mike Bartlett from his Tony-nominated stage play, becoming part political thriller, part family drama, and a timely examination of contemporary Britain. The score includes a combination of the music Jocelyn created for the stage play, as well as the development of new material to fit the television drama. Featured on the soundtrack are singers: Harvey Brough, Melanie Pappenheim, Voya Zivkovic, Belinda Sykes, Jocelyn Pook and instrumentalists: Preetha Narayanan, Flora Curzon (violin) Clare Finnimore, Jocelyn Pook (viola) Nick Holland, Anna-Helena McLean (cello) Belinda Sykes (oboe) Susi Evans (clarinet) Lois Au (bassoon).
This adaptation retains the daring verse of the original text while fully realising on screen the ambitious scale and spectacle suggested by the play - from Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace to the restless streets of London. The late Tim Pigott-Smith (Downton Abbey, The Hour) reprises the role of Charles from the acclaimed West End and Broadway production, while Charlotte Riley (Close to the Enemy, Peaky Blinders) stars as Kate Middleton. Olivier award-winner Rupert Goold (The Hollow Crown, True Story) directs, and it is produced by Drama Republic.
Jocelyn has won the BAFTA TV Craft Award (2018) for her score to BBC/Drama Republic’s King Charles III.
Untold Things (2013)
“Jocelyn Pook is what you might call a thoroughly Post-Modern composer… [she] delights in breaching the boundaries between high art and popular culture. Her work glides effortlessly between classical, pop and world music, and incorporates elements of dance, film and theatre.”
The breadth and depth of influences and instrumentation incorporated into her work is almost unprecedented.
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DESH (2011)
“Jocelyn Pook’s recorded score is haunting and magical, excited and angry…
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In 2011, Jocelyn collaborated with Akram Khan on his new project, DESH (homeland), creating a “musical score that surprises at every turn, mixing found material from field trips in Bangladesh with lyrical chants and hymns” (Luke Jennings, The Observer).
“We began in the capital, Dhaka, a place full to bursting with vividness of life and colour. All around there were teetering piles of freight pushed on bicycles, tangles of wires overhead and a loud soundtrack to all this chaos and hustle and bustle of human toil: bells and hoots, car horns, ship sirens, clanks and clashes of metal in the shipyard; then in quieter moments, the sound of children singing, and the gentle squealing of hungry river otters.”
This is a visceral and evocative collection that moves from fragile, intimate works to large scale orchestral pieces, lifting rhythms from the urban chaos captured in Jocelyn’s field recordings. Featuring the singers Melanie Pappenheim, Sohini Alam, Natacha Atlas and Tanja Tzaragoza, the work includes Jocelyn’s piece, Hallelujah, described by one critic as “so beautiful it could break your heart” (The Times).
Brick Lane (2007)
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Untold Things (2001)
Flood (1999)
“Pook draws upon the cultures of Christ-ianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam as well as musical styles spanning both millennia to weave a potent collection of haunting melodies. All are wonderfully performed by a collection of angelically effective voices.”
Deluge (1997)
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“ a suite of stunning invention and sheer beauty””
