Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, another soundtrack

Nonesuch Records releases the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s film “After the Hunt”. The album includes the score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, a selection of songs by composer John Adams, as well as additional music from the film by Ambitious Lovers, Julius Eastman, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Everything But The Girl, among others. The complete trackslist at the end of the article.

The film’s images are accompanied by the original soundtrack by the two-time Oscar-winning duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. This is the fourth film that Reznor and Ross have scored for Guadagnino.

“I always show Trent and Atticus the complete film, without the music. Then we start talking about principles and ideas,” explains Guadagnino. “In this case it was about creating doubt. They brought me these extraordinary piano notes that underlined the question of whether or not to believe this person. This theme of doubt emerges in the first scene and continues to expand. And then, around the created structure, we inserted pop music and contemporary composers like John Adams.”

Adams’ music is present in almost all of Guadagnino’s works, starting with “Io sono l’amore” (2009). Inspired and set entirely to Adams’ pre-existing music, this was the first time Adams allowed his work to be used in this way. Guadagnino subsequently included Adams songs in his films “A Bigger Splash” (2015), “Call My Be Your Name” (2017), in the eight episodes of his miniseries “We Are Who We Are” (2020), as well as in the documentaries “Inconscio Italiano” (2011) and “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (2020).

“Adams’ music constantly permeates me. Discovering it was a transformative experience and forever changed my life as a director,” admits Guadagnino. “It is accompanied by the ability to interpret reality, the history of reality, the history of the United States and to understand even the boundaries of music, to become an astute exploration of the identity of human nature and the political relationship that binds us all.”

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross recently composed the scores for Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” and “Queer.” Both scores received widespread acclaim, with “Challengers” winning the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award, as well as a Grammy nomination. Over the years, the pair has composed music for a wide range of film and television projects, starting with David Fincher’s “The Social Network” (2010), which earned them an Oscar and a Golden Globe. Their next collaboration with Fincher, “Millennium” (2013), earned them a Grammy Award. Reznor founded Nine Inch Nails in 1988. Ross joined Reznor and the band in 2016.

John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of music. His works are among the most performed in all contemporary classical music, long appreciated by the most important orchestras and conductors, soloists and instrumental singers, choreographers and opera directors in the world. Nonesuch Records made its first record with Adams in 1985. That year he signed an exclusive contract with the label, and since then the label has released more than 40 first recordings and more than 30 albums entirely composed by Adams, including the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s “Io sono l’amore”, as well as 2022’s 40-disc “Collected Works” box set.

“After the Hunt” track list:

Disc 1
Clock, One
A Child Is Born – Tony Bennett, Bill Evans
Let’s Walk – Mark Harelik, Victoria Clark, Adam Guettel
After the Hunt, One – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
It’s Gonna Rain – Ambitious Lovers
6. György Ligeti: Piano Concerto: II. Slow and desert – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Asko Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw
7. Terrible Love – The National
8. John Adams: Gnarly Buttons: II. Hoe-down (Mad Cow) – John Adams, London Sinfonietta
John Adams: Gnarly Buttons: III. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me – John Adams, London Sinfonietta
10. After the Hunt, Two – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
11. Break With – Ryuichi Sakamoto

Disc 2
1. Clock, Two
2. Julius Eastman: Evil Ni**er – Julius Eastman, Frank Ferko, Janet Kattas, Patricia Martin
3. The meeting – Piero Ciampi
4. John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II: “It is as if our earthly life were spent miserably” – Kent Nagano, Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, The London Opera Chorus
5. John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II: Desert Chorus – Kent Nagano, Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, The London Opera Chorus
6. After the Hunt, Three
7. John Adams: City Noir: III. Boulevard Night – David Robertson, St. Louis Symphony
8. It’s Precise Perdoar – Ambitious Lovers
9. Nothing Left To Lose – Everything But The Girl

Soundtrack compiled by Luca Guadagnino & Matthew Rankin
Music supervisor: Robin Urdang