Morricone Youth

***MORRICONE YOUTH was formed in 1999 with a mission statement to compose, re-interpret, perform and/or record "music written for the moving image" (film/tv soundtracks, library music, etc.) in all incarnations from playing shows dedicated to specific composers/film genres in rock clubs/performance spaces with projections to live scoring films in theaters. Over the years, they've released CDs, toured and had residencies at the Knitting Factory, CBGB, Tonic and, most recently, Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg. Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned the group to write an original score to Hitchcock's The Lodger performed Halloween 2013. Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioned a piece for its Marcel Duchamp exhibit in 2012. Band members have scored for documentaries, short films, etc. and include current/past members of bands CREEDLE, CRASH WORSHIP, PAIN TEENS, PRONTO (Wilco side band), aMINIATURE and THE RUGBURNS. Morricone Youth's original six song (31:44 min.) score for Lotte Reiniger's 1926 German animated silent film is now available in an edition of 500 copies with download.