{"title":"Oliver Coates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver Coates is a talented musician who plays cello and laptop live, as well as creating records. Currently residing in Scotland, Oliver has gained recognition for his releases in 2017 on RVNG intl. His live performances have seen him collaborate with notable artists such as MF DOOM and Genesis P Orridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a unique blend of classical and electronic elements, Oliver's music captivates listeners with its innovative soundscapes. Drawing inspiration from various genres, his compositions showcase a diverse range of influences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoy the works of Kali Malone, Mica Levi, or Jonny Greenwood, you are sure to appreciate Oliver Coates' distinctive style. His music invites you on a sonic journey that pushes boundaries and challenges traditional notions of genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aftersun-original-motion-picture-soundtrack","title":"Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)","description":"\u003cp\u003e(Cellist, composer and electronic music producer, Oliver Coates’ score for \u003ci\u003eAftersun\u003c\/i\u003e, directed by Charlotte Wells and starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The score, lighter and more delicate than Oliver Coates’ previously released music, functions as shadows or half-glimpses, a glowing form of ambient music which adds emotional colour to the cinematography. \u003ci\u003eAftersun\u003c\/i\u003e features ‘One Without’, the much talked about piece of music used in the final scene and credits – the one that audiences have been known to sit in silence through the credits for. ‘One Without’ was made away from the film after the composer’s first meeting with Charlotte Wells, the director. On it, the strings are reversed and sped up a little, Each harmony has the next chord bleeding into it because of the reversed tails. The string vibrato is slightly unreal because the playback is faster and Coates explains that the “whole score is derived from the music within this final piece.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe film is a poetic meditation and gradual emotional arc towards the presence of absence, of another story not revealed. It is the light of the camera work, the physical gait of the actors and the music which come together in a climatic resolution. Coates’ score stands for memory within the film, a growing awareness that the film might be a memory trawl to try and make sense of trauma. The score makes the film feel like it is starting to become self-aware, like a film within a film. Over time the score develops and helps the viewer move beyond the naturalistic and the diegetic. It is made of simple elements, old synths, reversed and slowed down strings. These, the composer explains “gradually reveal the sluggishness in Calum’s (Paul Mescal) demeanour, suggesting something hanging over him.”  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Invada","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50442476912971,"sku":"2027436","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50442477273419,"sku":"2027441","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/LSINV303LP_Aftersun_3000x3000_Sleeve_3e36c497_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726999246"},{"product_id":"significant-other-music-from-the-motion-picture","title":"Significant Other (Music From The Motion Picture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOliver Coates' dense and unsettling score to \u003ci\u003eSignificant Other\u003c\/i\u003e is now available on vinyl. 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The smeared organum harmony is spread across two octaves and two 5th transpositions and is structured like a live action painting. The majority of the tracks on the album are single take live performances. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Oliver’s most important collaborators from 2019, \u003ci\u003eMalibu\u003c\/i\u003e, returns on the final track in a spoken word and auto-tuned singing capacity. 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Throb, shiver, arrow of time traces the familiar metallic anatomy and viscous string modulations of his 2020 release skins n slime, while cultivating his inner compulsions following a procession of lauded score writing projects, including the films Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022), The Stranger (Thomas M Wright, 2022) and Occupied City (Steve McQueen, 2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile working on Aftersun, Wells asked Coates how music could signal that someone is going on a trawl through their memory—a question that has stayed with him ever since and fosters a heartbeat running through the record. Throb, shiver, arrow of time is “all about inaccurate transmissions from our memories, overlaid with emotions from other sources,” says Coates. The release is imbued with the ache and glow of recollections mulched together, where the guttural dissonance of misremembering is shrouded by strange orbs of sentiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the record’s inner core is “Shopping centre curfew,” a swift yet cavernous track that emerged five years ago when two real world events, both occurring in South London during the pandemic lockdowns, became fused in a dream: the demolition of Elephant and Castle shopping center, and the discussion of a curfew as a real possibility for all men following a violent crime. A strange simultaneity occurred with this piece of music and Coates built the album out from there, a sense of temporal entropy refracting shimmers of lurking convulsions into lucid sonic topologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rvng Intl","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50949461180747,"sku":"2215680","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Throb_shiver_arrow_of_time_16de9ee2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1733683689"},{"product_id":"mary-george-original-series-soundtrack","title":"Mary and George (Original Series Soundtrack)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreeminent cellist \/ composer Oliver Coates follows his scores for \u003cem\u003eAftersun\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFoe\u003c\/em\u003e with a stately string and electronic orchestration for Tudor and Stuart-era period drama \u003cem\u003eMary \u0026amp; George\u003c\/em\u003e. Coate’s score draws on his roots in classical, electronic and club music to accompany an adaptation of the non-fiction book \u003cem\u003eThe King’s Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e by Benjamin Woolley, which outlines the romantic affair between King James VI and I and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe score sees Coates reaching for a suitably lavish palette of strings, from symphonic to puckered chamber arrangements, sometimes underlined with Burial-esque beats and choral pads, as in ‘France’, or alloying the two in a way recalling Nicholas Britell’s ‘Succession’ soundtrack. There’s enough harpsichord to make the ruffed-necks swoon, and Coates takes the license to distort sounds to taste when necessary, resulting a clear highpoint in his work, both solo and for film.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Invada","offers":[{"title":"LP - Red \/ Black","offer_id":51790079394123,"sku":"R8264-9274","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/OliverCoates-Mary_and_George.jpg?v=1746721975"},{"product_id":"pillion-original-soundtrack","title":"Pillion (Original Soundtrack)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOliver Coates’s original score for Pillion pressed on transparent teal vinyl, featuring lock and key transparent o-card.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A24","offers":[{"title":"LP - Transparent Teal","offer_id":56570287489355,"sku":"R6356-2671","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot2026-02-19at15.07.29.png?v=1771513662"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-sound","title":"The History of Sound","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the cinematic release of \u003cem\u003eThe History of Sound\u003c\/em\u003e earlier this year, London-based cellist, composer and producer \u003cstrong\u003eOliver Coates\u003c\/strong\u003e now releases \u003cem\u003eThe History of Sound (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)\u003c\/em\u003e. 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