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Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Episode 390: John Carney On The Music Of Flora And Son

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6754 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As Edith has noted before, our latest guest on Soundtracking has effectively created his own genre of naturalistic musical cinema, in which the songs featured feel organically rooted in the landscape of the narrative. John Carney is the man who brought us Once and Sing Street - and now blesses us with Flora And Son, which you can watch on Apple TV and in selected cinemas. It tells the story of a mum struggling to deal with her rebellious son, whose fortunes start to change after she rescues a beat-up guitar from a skip. John enlisted the help of Gary Clark of Danny Wilson fame for the original songs and the score, and you'll hear examples of his music throughout the conversation.

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0:00.0

Hi folks. Happy hump day. I wonder where that came from actually. Humph day. It's middle of the week.

0:08.6

And we're normally with you at the start of the week giving you a brand new episode. But if you listened to

0:13.6

Monday's episode with the brilliant Gareth Edwards, I told you that we've got some extra episodes

0:20.2

coming your way and we've got one of those for you right now.

0:23.9

That's because there's an abundance of great stuff around at the minute.

0:28.5

So we want to try and capture that as much as we possibly can.

0:33.7

So massive thanks to Ben for all the extra work behind the scenes and putting it all together.

0:39.2

But we've got something really great to share with you for a crack in wee film actually.

0:43.6

You might have seen the posters for Flora and Son or advertising around it.

0:47.6

It's got the brilliant Eve Hewson in the lead role as a single mum trying to navigate her own life as well as her teenage sons.

0:55.7

And music sort of surprises them both and forms a massive part of their life and their relationship moving forward.

1:04.4

And as I've said before, our latest guest on soundtrack and has kind of created his own genre of naturalistic musical cinema in which the songs featured feel kind of organically rooted in the landscape of the narrative and the characters lives.

1:22.6

John Carney is a man who's brought us once and Sing Street and now Flores' son, which you can watch both on Apple TV now,

1:30.9

or if you want that cinematic experience, it is in cinemas as well.

1:34.8

And as I said, it tells the story of a single mum struggling to deal with her rebellious son

1:39.8

whose fortune started to change after she rescues.

1:44.1

It's a brilliant scene, actually. She rescues a beating

1:46.1

up guitar from a skip. It's very funny. John enlisted the help of Gary Clark of Danny Wilson

1:53.5

fame. If I say, say, it's the only time I'm going to do that. And he's worked with them before,

1:59.2

but they worked on original songs and score

2:01.3

and it's with Gary's cue

2:02.6

Flora Watches Max

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