L’OISEAU DE PARADIS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

L’OISEAU DE PARADIS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Director Paul Manate

Music composed by Olivier Mellano

Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd

Distribution Digitale The Orchard

Distribution Physique Sergent Major Company Ltd

CD Digital & CD Physical Limited Edition

A young Métis, amoral and seductive parliamentary assistant, Teivi once saw Yasmina, a distant Maori cousin with mystical powers, who made a strange prediction. But in the grip of hallucinatory malaise and entangled in a real estate corruption case, Teivi loses his footing. Convinced that Yasmina can cure him, he goes in search of him and walks to the phantasmagorical peninsula of Tahiti. The Bird of Paradise tells of an intimate and legendary Tahiti, Métis and alive. A mystical and contemporary tale about the most beautiful of lost paradises.

"In composing this soundtrack, I wanted to invent a traditional fantasy music that quickly became that of nature and its nocturnal spirits braided with the dark forces of human ambitions by prolonging the disturbing strangeness that innervants this fascinating film."

Olivier Mellano

L'Oiseau de Paradis (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Olivier Mellano

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"At first, I had only one certainty, I didn't want a music that was simply folk and exotic, that would stick to the Polynesian territory, illustrate it stupidly. I wanted something that evokes the inner journey of my heroes, magical sounds, based on breaths, tribal percussion and synthetic notes to make people feel the phantasmagorical history and the mystical mutation of my characters. Like an elusive spirit that prowls and radiates the whole story, a "voice" that tells and disturbs. Very quickly, from the first editing version, Olivier offered me a complete musical aesthetic, on the whole film, sometimes on sequences where I did not imagine music. We then refined the rhythm and thickness of each piece to find a métis balance, both modern and legendary, telluric and digital. A creation that, I believe, amplifies and magnifies the narrative joints of the screenplay.

Paul Manate