To match this tale of generations of a family, set in the golden light of late summer on an Adirondack lake, Ethan Gold's soundtrack creates a quietly interwoven emotional force, driven by water and silence, and nostalgia for and release from the past. Gold's original title song, arranged in differing styles of the 1930s and 1940s and sung by John Grant and the Staves, transports us to the glamorous time of America's ascendance. The body of the score is piano-driven, meditative, and nostalgic, with Gold's e-bow, Jon Hassell's trumpet, Fred Frith's paintbrush guitar providing undercurrents of dread. The characters, both living and ghostly, echo and mingle through the grand lodge, and out on the quiet lake under sun and moon. The music creates it's own dream-like world that both heightens reality and helps one drift away from it. - Cultured Vultures

Tracklist:

Sway Lake (Lost Record Version) (Feat. John Grant)
Sway Lake (Big Band Version) (Feat. the Staves)
Pure Water Opening
An Empty Lodge
Ghost at the Dock
Ollie's Dream
Glimpses
Hal's Hands
Starlight Reveries 1
Guide Boat Daylight 1
Guide Boat Moonlight 1
Nikolai's Dream 1
Hallways 1
Nikolai's Row 1
Pure Water Pills 1
Charlie's Shame 1
Dust 1
Hidden in the Attic 1
Ghost in the Mirror 2
Orphan Waking 2
Kiss on the Point 2
Wet Walk 2
Orphan Usurper 2
Betrayal Reveries 2
Pure Water Tears 2
The Old Watch 2
Blood in the Water 2
Sway Lake Finale 2
Issa Intermezzi (Issa El-Saieh) 3
Bittersweet J 3
Bittersweet Orchestra 3
Bittersweet Finale 3
Drone Symphone 3
Orphan Orchestra 3
Orphan Finale 3
Pure Water Dark Opening 3
Quiet Lake Orchestra 3
Quiet Lake Finale 3
Small Combo 4
Family Piano Exercise 4
Orphan Steps 4
Mice 4
Hymns on the Lake 4
Ripples Electric 4
Timmy Theme 1 4
Timmy Theme 2 4
Ghost Theme 4
Sway Lake (Swing Demo) 4
Sway Lake (Rhumba Demo)

UPC: 784103529728
Label: Electrik Gold
Release Date: 10.26.18
Format: CD

Gold, Ethan - The Song of Sway Lake (Original Soundtrack) (CD)