Sigur Rós Frontman Jónsi and Composer John Powell
Release Lyric Video for "Where No One Goes" From Official
Relativity Music Group and DreamWorks Animation have released a lyric video for Sigur Rós Frontman, Jónsi, and Composer John Powell's "Where No One Goes." Watch the lyric video now here: http://bit.ly/1qjeTMZ. "Where No One Goes" is off the soundtrack for DreamWorks Animation's "How To Train Your Dragon 2," which was released on June 10th.Following the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for 2010's original, How To Train Your Dragon, featuring collaborations from composer John Powell and Jónsi, the duo returned to the studio to charm audiences once again.
- Go behind the scenes in-studio and read an exclusive interview with John Powell over at TIME here.
- Purchase How To Train Your Dragon 2: Music From The Motion Picture on iTunes here.
- Purchase the ZinePak edition of the soundtrack exclusively through Walmart here.
- Purchase How To Train Your Dragon 2 Soundtrack on Amazon here.
Critically acclaimed composer John Powell has contributed original compositions to over 50 film scores including "Happy Feet", "Shrek," "PS. I Love You", "X-Men: The Last Stand", "Rio", "Ice Age: The Meltdown", "The Bourne Identity" series, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "Robots", and numerous others. Powell's outstanding work on 2010's "How To Train Your Dragon" landed him two International Film Music Critics Association Awards (Score of The Year, Best Score for an Animated Feature) andearned him his first Academy Award nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards.
About his time in the studio with Jónsi the second time around, Powell tells TIME, "It was like him and me were having a baby... It was exactly between our two musical natures."
Jónsi, internationally known for being the guitarist and vocalist for Icelandic post-rock band, Sigur Rós, isn't new to the scoring world. In addition to composing the score for "We Bought A Zoo," his original song, "Sticks and Stones" for 2010's How To Train Your Dragon, skyrocketed into a worldwide hit. His new release, "Where No One Goes" off the upcoming soundtrack has already garnered praise from the likes of Pitchfork, Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, Death + Taxes, KEXP, NME, Rolling Stone, Filter Magazine and more.
Relativity Music Group recently released soundtracks for DreamWorks Animation's Mr. Peabody & Sherman, The Croods, Safe Haven, Millennium Films' Olympus Has Fallen and The Iceman as well as Focus Features' Hyde Park on Hudson and Promised Land.
For more information on How To Train Your Dragon 2, please visit www.howtotrainyourdragon.com. You can also follow the film on Facebook and on Twitter through #HTTYD2.
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