Here Before (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

by Adam Janota Bzowski

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1.	Bokeh 01:14	buy track
2.	Here Before 01:19	buy track
3.	Street Light 01:14	buy track
4.	Ketchup Face 01:18	buy track
5.	Reverie 01:14	buy track
6.	Secret Handshake 01:03	buy track
7.	Trumpet Dance 03:24	buy track
8.	Treehouse 01:30	buy track
9.	Green Head Band 01:08	buy track
10.	Get In The Car 00:53	buy track
11.	Trip 01:40	buy track
12.	Photos 01:04	buy track
13.	The Brightest Light 06:10	buy track
14.	New Skates 01:58	buy track
15.	Red Box 02:01	buy track
16.	Brendan 01:34	buy track
17.	Josie 05:01	buy track
18.	Coda 01:09	buy track

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HERE BEFORE (2021)
Directed and Written by Stacey Gregg
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Jonjo O'Neill, Niamh Dornan
Produced: Rooks Nest

I started working on the score for HERE BEFORE right when the world shut down in 2020, a time of intense claustrophobia, uncertainty and internal panic, which, can be felt heavily in the music.

Conversations with the film’s director, Stacey Gregg, provided a necessary calm amongst the chaos, and I began making a series of demos to provide an aural landscape for this haunting and mesmeric film.
After enlisting renowned violinist Dr. Victoria Bernath, together we generated a series of haunting motifs and noises which were recorded in the living room of my mum's house in Ealing, West London. Through subsequent tape manipulation and heavy effects processing I created what would be the sound palette for the film. Some of those demos remain largely unchanged in the final score.

Words from the writer and director Stacey Gregg:

Looking back over emails, early points of discussion with Adam were around entropy and the uncanny. Any creative relationship is a getting-to-know-you dance, but from the outset it felt like Adam and I were sharing a brain. It’s such a gift to work with someone who makes it seem effortless. I know how much energy that can take. We had to work entirely remotely due to it being the first wave of lockdown, and Adam just seemed to disappear and then deliver, and deliver magnificently, enriching the film as it emerged with his own elegant magic.

I immediately fell in love with ‘Coda’ and ‘Ketchup Face’, both of which captured a mood, a world. My persistent, crass note as we got more granular was “make it scrappier, weirder,” my taste for dissonance and disruption chafing productively against Adam’s natural cogency. ‘Josie’ took longer to find, but what we ended up with as we drop into that top shot over that house always feels rewarding. So too does ‘Here Before’, or ‘Ketchup Face’ when it plays across Andrea’s porcelain face – moments when all the elements slot together and you can no longer imagine the film any other way.

Once the film was released, the score quite rightly drew praise for its distinctive presence and soulful sympathy. Some composers score to timecode, and though Adam was across the emerging edit, cues tended to find their own place. This convergence and clashing often generated the key moments in this 90 minute cosmos we all created. I like to retain a certain amount of mysticism about the process and I think Adam does too. I hope that’s something we’ll continue to do together.

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released February 17, 2023

Violin // Dr. Victoria Bernath
Mastered // Rafael Anton Irisarri @ Black Knoll Studio

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Adam Janota Bzowski London, UK

SE London composer.

SAINT MAUD / HERE BEFORE / BLACK MIRROR (Loch Henry) / THE MARSH KING's DAUGHTER / FEMME / OUT OF DARKNESS

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