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Home , Cezary Skubiszewski, Crowded House, Peter Jones (drummer), Powderfinger

Composer Cezary Skubiszewski

Music Supervision Chris Gough, Mana Music

Music Editor Lee Smith

Music performed by

Guitars Shane O'Mara, Barry Palmer, Gregor Jordan Sax and Bass Clarinet Tony Hinks Bass Steven Hadley Drums Vibraphone Craig Beard Beatmaster Andy Baldwin

Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra (Members of Symphony Orchestra)

Orchestration & Conducting Daryl McKenzie

Recorded and Mixed by Michael Letho at Sing Sing/Platinum Studios, Melbourne

Orchestra Recorded by Robin Gray at Allan Eaton Studios, Melbourne Additional Recordings Engineered by Adam Rhodes at C-Zee Studios Love Theme Composed by Cezary and Jan Skubiszewski 'Score' © 1998 by Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd

SONGS

'Belter' (Powderfinger/Fanning) Polygram Music Publishing Performed by Powderfinger Courtesy of Australia Under License for Polygram 'Heavenly Sublime' (Tracky Dax) Control Performed by Tracky Dax

'Dark State of Mind' (Skerik/Harwood/Martin) Polygram Music Publishing/Control Performed by Tuatara Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment

'Stadium' (Scott/Larkin/Sutherland/Sutherland/ Searies) Sony Music Publishing Performed by Skunkhour Courtesy of Velvet Sound Recordings

'What Does It Matter' (Mitchell/Fonti) Control Performed by Primary Courtesy of Warner Music Australia

'24-7' (Scott/Larkin/Sutherland/Sutherland/ Searies) Sony Music Publishing Performed by Skunkhour Courtesy of Velvet Sound Recordings

'This Guy's In Love' (Bacharach/David) New Hidden Valley Music/ Rondor Music/Casa David Administered by Rondor Music/ MCA Music Australia Performed by Courtesy of

'Lucky Star' (Wasiliev) Rondor Music Performed by Alex Lloyd Courtesy of EMI Music Australia

'Two Hands' (Middleton) Egg the Nest Songs Performed by Courtesy of Polydor Records Australia Under Licence for Polygram Pty Ltd Kate Ceberano Appears Courtesy of

'These Days' (Powderfinger/Fanning) Egg the Nest Songs Performed by Powderfinger Courtesy of Polydor Records Australia Under Licence for Polygram

'Down In Splendour' (Brough) Mushroom Music Performed by Straitjacket Fits Courtesy of Flying Nun Records

'Kare Kare' (Finn/Hester/Seymour/Hart) Mushroom Music/Control Performed by Courtesy of EMI Music Australia

Soundtrack available on Bestboy Records Distributed by Festival Best Boy logo Festival ® logo Lyrics:

Head credits:

The song which runs over the head credits is ’s Belter. Lyrics as heard in the film:

You go I feel like dropping bombs between your eyes But not today Too slow I feel like sinking arrows in your mind You're all the same You don't have to reveal it You get trouble concede You don't have to reveal it …

(the song fades out under sound effects and the visual descent into hell, so that the repeats at the end of the song aren’t heard in the film)

Are you feeling right Are you feeling right Are you feeling right Are you feeling right A defeated sight Are you feeling right

Instead of these repeats, the soundtrack continues with dark jazzy music, as The Man grapples with the rock face, then turns to camera and addresses the audience:

Man: If you’re going through some sort of shit in your life, chances are someone else has been through the same thing before ya …and … they’ve written it down. Some poet or philosopher has been through the same type of crap, and they’ve written about it. And when you find that poem or that piece of writing, and you think, bloody hell, this bastard’s just summed it all up … it’s kinda comforting, know what I mean?

(The film cuts away to Jimmy having a bareknuckle fight, then back to the man in his cave)

Man: The Chinese reckon that man is a bridge between heaven and hell, the middle ground between the yin and the yang. (Then over the boxing match) The yin, and the yang (as Jimmy knocks out his opponent, who topples to the ground) Me and my little brother Jimmy here, we got these tattoos one day. (As Jimmy checks his knuckles, the camera slides over to see the yin-yang tattoo at the top of Jimmy’s arm) One side is white with a little bit of black, and the other side is black with a little bit of white. You see, something that’s good can still have a little bit of bad in it, and something that’s bad still has a little bit of good.

(The writer/director credit then slides into view with a sound effect, and we’re in Kings Cross with Jimmy - Heath Ledger - and Les - Kiri Paramore)

Tail credits:

The final slaughter is conducted to the song These Days, performed by PowderFinger.

This is followed by a song which runs over the tail credits - Kare Kare, performed by Crowded House. Lyrics as heard in the film:

I was standing on a wave Then I made the drop I was lying in a cave In the solid rock I was feeling pretty brave ’Til the lights went off Sleep by no means comes too soon In a valley lit by the moon… (guitar led interlude) We left a little dust, on his Persian rug We gathered up our clothes, got the washing done In a long forgotten place, who'll be the first to run? Sleep by no means comes too soon In a valley lit by the moon Ooh yeah (instrumental interlude featuring guitar) I was floating on a wave Then I made the drop I was climbing up Waiting for the band to start You can say the magic words I've got my senses on And this is the only place That I always run from Sleep, by no means, comes too soon In a valley lit by the moon … Ohh noo noo nah … (more hard to decipher, distorted words echo in the distance, with assorted ahhs at the end)

CD release:

The score was released on CD: CD Festival/Manamusic D32052 1999 Album mastered by David Macquarie at Studios 301, , Australia These Days Powderfinger Lucky Star Alex Lloyd Walking Kings X Cezary Skubiszewski What Does It Matter Primary Stadium Skunkhour Dark State of Mind Tualara Belter Powderfinger Staircase Cezary Skubiszewski Down in Splendour Straitjacket Fits Heavenly Sublime Tracky Dax Fletcher's House Cezary Skubiszewski Two Hands Kate Ceberano Love Theme Cezary Skubiszewski This Guy's in Love The Reels Kare Kare Crowded House

Composer:

Cezary Skubiszewski is too well-known a composer to dwell on at length here. Skubiszewski was listed at move here, had a reasonably detailed wiki listing here, and his own eponymous website here, which contained information about his works, YouTube links, awards, recordings, etc, as well as this short CV (Skubiszewski won an APRA Music Award for Best Film Score in 2000 for his work on the film):

Cezary Skubiszewski is an Australian film and TV composer whose work has claimed numerous awards. Cezary’s first film score was for Lilian’s Story (1996), directed by fellow Pole Jerzy Domaradzki and staring Toni Collette. This was followed by (2000) and La Spagnola (2001), for which he collected Best Original Music awards from Film Institute. His other early works include Black & White (2002), The Brush Off (2004), The Book of Revelation and Blessed. His work on the 1999 film Two Hands saw Cezary collect the Best Film Score Award from APRA at the annual Screen Music awards. This was followed in later years by the mini-series After the Deluge (2003) starring Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths, and (2007) for which he also received Best Film Score Awards. He then went on to compose scores for The Book of Revelation (2006) and Blessed (2009). His latest work composing for Night (2008) Bran Nue Dae (2009), Red Dog (2011) and The Sapphires(2012) – which received critical acclaim at an international level, have seen him win awards from Inside Film and the Film Critics Circle of Australia. In last few years Cezary composed music for Serrangoon Road (2013 APRA AWARD), The Broken Shore (2014) (APRA AWARD) Parer’s War (2014), Jeziorak (2014 Polish Film Festival Best Music Award) Turkey Shoot (2014), Women H'e Undressed (2015) , Karbala (2015) Oddball (2015), Red Dog - True Blue (2016) and USA film Tiger (2016). In 2017 Cezary Received ACCTA Award for Best Music in a documentary for his score to Monsieur Mayonnaise. Cezary just finished scoring TV mini-series Picnic At Hanging Rock. In 1981 Cezary composed the symphony Home at Last and in 1991 created musical theatre multi-media production Soundescape which was performed at Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals. (2015) Cezary has also composed music for a number of adverts,including Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Football Finals, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Carlton Draught Big Ad campaign and the VB Bottle Symphony which became a worldwide hit. In 2008 1nd 2011 Cezary was the Musical Director of APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards. Cezary is the Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 "For Service to Australian Society and Australian Film Production" and Film Circle of Australia (FCCA) 2010 Award "in recognition of contribution to Australian Cinema".

(Below: Cezary Skubiszewski)

In 2010 Albert published a collection of Skubiszewski’s soundtrack work, and track 3 was “Staircase/Fletcher’s House” from Two Hands, running 5’14”. There were some 18 tracks from a variety of films on the CD:

Skubiszewski’s discography can be checked at Discogs here - the site had this list of tracks for his Filmworks album: