 Shavo
Odadjian, music video director, DJ, and bassist for the multi-Platinum,
Grammy Award-winning rock band System of a Down, will add film scorer to his
list of credits with his work on the upcoming sci-fi/thriller feature film,
"Babylon AD," starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Gerard Depardieu. The
film is being directed by Cannes Award winning French director Mathieu Kassovitz
("La Haine/Hate"), and will be released over the Labor Day (May) Weekend, 2008.
Working closely on the score with Academy Awarding winning composer Hans Zimmer
and composer Atli Orvarsson, Odadjian is collaborating with writing/scoring
partner, Wu-Tang Clan's The RZA, writing and scoring several tracks for "Babylon
AD," as well as various "futuristic-specific" musical themes and orchestration
throughout the film.
"Musically, our objective was to merge the sounds and
energies of hip hop with classical music, seamlessly melting them into an
unusual soundscape," explained Zimmer. "Shavo's unique talent, perspective and
ability have achieved exactly that, and then some."
Much of the music for the score is being performed by Achozen, the
musical alliance formed by Odadjian and The RZA.
As bassist for System of a Down, Odadjian has seen every one of the band's five
albums hit the Platinum mark with three debuting at #1 on Billboard's Albums
charts, and has sold in excess of 10-milliion albums in the U.S. alone. He has
written and/or directed the music videos for the band's "Toxicity," "Aerials,"
"Question" and "Hypnotize," and earlier this year, wrote and directed the Bad
Brains video for the song, "Give Thanks and Praises."
"I've been working 6 days a week for the last 2 months till I finished the
score and soundtrack for "Babylon" on Tuesday the 11th. Also I cleared "Metal
Health"--Quiet Riot..... RIP Kevin and "Dead Embryonic Cells"--- Sepultura for
the same film" Shavo Odadjian exclusively to SOADFans.com
You can follow-up the Film info on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364970/
Shavo has been recently jam'n/recording in the studio with
George Clinton, a set of photos taken by Greg
Watermann has been released on Shavo's official myspace page, you can check them
out here:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=40935077&albumId=1294937
or alternatively you check them out in the Forums:
http://www.soadfans.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-20996.htm
Photo credit(s): Greg Watermann
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