The "Dune" trailer release increased downloads of Pink Floyd's “Eclipse” by 1,750 percent.
Warner Bros.’ much-buzzed-about release of the “Dune” official trailer last week represented a full circle moment for the relationship between Frank Herbert’s science-fiction novel and the rock band Pink Floyd. Back when Alejandro Jodorowsky was attempting to mount a “Dune” film adaptation in the 1970s, the director courted Pink Floyd to write the original score. The film failed to materialize, but Pink Floyd found its way back to “Dune,” as the trailer for Villeneuve’s upcoming tentpole featured a cover of the band’s song “Eclipse” from the 1973 album “Dark Side of the Moon.”
A new report from Variety confirms it was Hans Zimmer himself who was behind the reworking of “Eclipse” for the “Dune” trailer. The Oscar-winner has spent a majority of quarantine finishing the original score for “Dune,” and he took a break from the main score to oversee the recording of the Pink Floyd cover. Working with a 32-voice Los Angeles choir, Zimmer held eight sessions with four vocalists at a time in order to maintain social distancing measures. Twelve vocalists performed the lyrics from “Eclipse,” while the remaining 20 recorded choral parts.
“He wanted to pay homage to the original, very back-phrased sound, a little spaced-out, so the vocals would not sound urgent,” choral contractor Edie Lehmann Boddicker told Variety. “There’s a kind of joy happening in the track, a lot of hopefulness. It’s not despondent, just very peaceful and sounding not of this planet.”
Boddicker, who worked with Zimmer during the recording of “The Lion King” score, added, “We followed all the [COVID-19] protocols. Everybody wore masks except when they were in their separate cubicles, divided by glass, all with their own mic’s, and everything was wiped down between sessions.”
Zimmer never even went to the studio and instead stayed at his recording studio at home and worked with the vocalists over FaceTime. While he recorded an entire cover of “Eclipse,” only 13 lines of the song are used in the official trailer. Per Variety, Zimmer also crafted the cover with help from programmer Steven Doar, Chinese-American cellist Tina Guo, Colombian bassist Juan Garcia-Herreros, and English guitarist Guthrie Govan
While Warner Bros. has yet to release Zimmer’s cover to music streaming services, the “Dune” trailer proved popular enough to drive up digital sales for Pink Floyd’s original “Eclipse” by 1,750 percent. The “Dune” trailer has earned over 22 million views during its first week. Warner Bros. is releasing the film in theaters December 18.
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Tiny_Tacosaurus_Rex on September 16th, 2020 at 16:09 UTC »
From an interview with Roger Waters in reference to Eclipse:
"I don't see it as a riddle. The album uses the sun and the moon as symbols; the light and the dark; the good and the bad; the life force as opposed to the death force. I think it's a very simple statement saying that all the good things life can offer are there for us to grasp, but that the influence of some dark force in our natures prevents us from seizing them. The song addresses the listener and says that if you, the listener, are affected by that force, and if that force is a worry to you, well I feel exactly the same too. The line 'I'll see you on the dark side of the moon' is me speaking to the listener, saying, 'I know you have these bad feelings and impulses because I do too, and one of the ways I can make direct contact with you is to share with you the fact that I feel bad sometimes."
Without wanting to spoil anything I feel like it fits very well with the struggle in Paul and the story of Dune.
BNS972 on September 16th, 2020 at 16:06 UTC »
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnssss ziiiimmmmmeeeeeeer.
Cut to black
DAWN. OF. THE. SEVEN.
Goodbye_Galaxy on September 16th, 2020 at 15:21 UTC »
But the sun is eclipsed by the Dune.