The American composer has died at the age of 85, his family announced to the American media. He had signed the soundtrack of “Twin Peaks”.
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HASngelo Badalamenti died at his family home in New Jersey, his niece confirmed to the New York Times and at Hollywood Reporter. The American composer has died at the age of 85, American media announced on Tuesday, December 13. He was the author of the languid soundtrack of the cult series Twin Peaks by David Lynch. Born in 1937 in New York, he studied classical music. In 1986, he began his work with the filmmaker David Lynch on the highly acclaimed “Blue Velvet”, a collaboration that he continued on the feature film with Sailor and Lula, Lost Highway and A true story.
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“The notes arrived like this”
But his arguably best-known work with the American director is that around Twin Peaks, a seminal television series from the early 1990s that revolutionized the genre. Angelo Badalamenti writes a suspended theme, calm and sinister, in the image of this “disturbing strangeness” that David Lynch excels in creating in a small imaginary town bordered by giant pines in which telephones ring in the void.
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“The notes arrived like that,” he told the magazine. Spirit and Flesh in 2015, recounting the creation of this soundtrack with the director. “David was amazed, and so was I. He had his arm hair standing on end and was pulling a tear, saying “I see Twin Peaks, I’ve got it” And I said, “I’ll go home and work on it. – Rework it? Don’t change a note!” And of course I never changed anything. »
Angelo Badalamenti has also composed music for Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, David Bowie and Paul McCartney.