Clinton Shorter – versatile Canadian composer (+ playlist and Notes)
Shorter was asked to score Blomkamp’s 2009 sci-fi film District 9 as “something ‘gritty and dark’ but still retaining its African roots.” The resulting music has been described by reviewers as “rhythmic” and “gorgeous”, as a “mournful ethnic composition”, and as having a “pseudo-exotic atmosphere, and a post-modern theme of loss”. The soundtrack was released separately on CD. In 2014, Shorter wrote the music for the action film Pompeii. He subsequently wrote music for the television series The Expanse and Colony.