Fleet Foxes Frontman Robin Pecknold On Creating The Music For Amazon’s Documentary ‘Wildcat’ – DeadlineSoundAndScreen
Pecknold appeared on a panel at Deadline’sevent following his performance alongside a 60-piece orchestra to discuss his process creating music for the December 30 release.
“In my songwriting process, I usually start with melody,” he said. “Then I write a bunch of small little things and don’t really think about how to put them together until later when I end up with like a chorus that started as a bridge for something else. Or with things that take surprising directions in different combinations, that’s usually how it goes.”Thanks to his years writing folk music, Pecknold found he connected with the story behindand its connection to nature.
Pecknold credits Brazilian musician Tim Bernardes, whom he has worked with prior on music for Fleet Foxes, for his contributions in the creation of “beautiful melodies, vocals, and electric guitars” in the original song fortitled “A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen.” The pair recorded in Amsterdam in between the band’s tour dates across seven studio days, which he says is relatively quick.
He says his approach to scoring for film is similar to how he writes music for Fleet Foxes albums, particularly with what inspired his starting point. “It’s wonderful to have something to react to. It’s a great challenge to think about how some British folk elements mixed with some wild elements have a wild structure that feels unpredictable in the way that a cat’s behavior might be hard to gauge. Trying to think about how to relate to the story lyrically, and musically in ways that weren’t totally obvious but that are still creatively generative,” he said. “That’s sometimes how I approach songwriting, too.
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