Dead Calm Music Credits
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Original Music Graeme Revell "Who Stole the Isopropyl Alcohol" Written & Performed by Tim O'Connor Copyright © 1988 Kennedy Miller Productions Pty. Ltd. "No-Mad" Written & Performed by Tim O'Connor Copyright © 1988 Kennedy Miller Productions Pty. Ltd. "New York Turnpike" Written & Performed by Tim O'Connor Copyright © 1988 Kennedy Miller Productions Pty. Ltd. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Peretti/Creatore/Weiss/Stanton (Essex Music) Performed by The Tokens Courtesy BMG Music International "Wired For Sound" Revell (Regular Music) Performed by SPK Courtesy Regular Records Soprano Nicholas Ferner-Waite Contralto Jolanta Nagajek Composer Graeme Revell: Composer Graeme Revell is too well known to detail at length here. He has a relatively detailed wiki here, and his management, here provided this short CV for his career: Since his first appearance on the film scene with the chilling score to Dead Calm, Graeme Revell has gone on to score films for such high-profile directors as John Woo, Wim Wenders, Robert Rodriguez, Ted Demme, and Michael Mann. He has scored such films as The Experiment, Unthinkable, Days of Wrath, andPineapple Express. He also composed the music for the political documentary Darfur Now. Revell’s work can be heard in the popular film adaptation of the graphic novel series, Sin City, as well as in Blow, Grindhouse, The Chronicles of Riddick, Daredevil, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Insider, The Siege, The Negotiator, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Crow, and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. Proving that his sound can successfully cross both genres and platforms, Revell scored the first season of the television series CSI: Miami. Most recently Revell completed his first film trilogy with the box office hit Riddick directed by David Twohy and starring Vin Diesel. Graeme’s most recent work can be heard in the the Australian TV series Old School and the critically acclaimed Fox TV series Gotham. A native of New Zealand, Revell received classical training in piano and French horn, but it was in an Australian mental hospital where his career as a composer began. He incorporated recordings of the sounds and rhythms of patients at the hospital (where he worked as an orderly) into the songs of his band SPK, whose music in turn landed him his first film scoring gig on Dead Calm. Since then he’s written scores for over 100 projects, earning an ASCAP award and 7 BMI Film Music Awards. He was also honored by BMI with the Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement. (Below: Graeme Revell) The score for Dead Calm has apparently never been officially released, but Revell had much work to do generating atmosphere and tension for this on- water thriller and accordingly devoted followers have prepared a track listing of his score: Enthusiasts might like to check out the 1986 SPK album which attracted attention to Revell’s work: .