WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER

If you are a fan of the emotionally sophisticated scores of such brilliant composers as Thomas Newman or Johan Soderqvist, you will surely enjoy Spanish composer Cesar Benito's gorgeous score for this heartwarming/heartbreaking Spanish/English co-production. Benito, who hails from Marbella but lives and works in Los Angeles, has composed a score which combines different uplifting elements (including driving piano music) with quirky instrumentation (including marimba) and soul-stirring orchestral themes.

Continuing and expanding on our recent devotion to high quality Spanish film music, we are excited to work for the first time with the very talented Los Angeles-based composer Cesar Benito. His score for Gustavo Ron's film adaptation of the Sally Nicholls novel Ways to Live Forever is a very beautiful and sensitive score which combines optimistic quirkiness with soulful seriousness in a way that recalls the finetuned drama music of such masters as Thomas Newman, Mychael Danna and Johan Soderqvist.

Although the story has a lot of very sad elements, the director wanted the music to be light, bright, even uplifting. The composer says that he tried 'to be inventive', combining 'the sounds of a symphony orchestra with other ethnic, less common, instruments and musical effects to portray the lively and imaginative personality of the protagonist'. The result is a score that is very engaging, moving and simply beautiful. ---MovieScore Media

1 The Idea for the Book 1.40
2 Works of Art 0.58
3 Some Information 2.46
4 Mom & Dad 1.49
5 Annie Dracula 1.40
6 Worms 1.06
7 Questions 2.03
8 Kayleigh 1.22
9 Ghosts 3.27
10 Ouija Board 2.39
11 Perfect 2.30
12 Best Things in the World 2.02
13 Strange Dreams 4.26
14 Even Better 1.09
15 Don't Ask Questions 1.21
16 Pictures 2.34
17 When I Was Gone 2.11
18 It's Not Fair 5.09
19 Tones of Cards 2.25
20 Remember Forever 6.10