And in the end of episode eight, it really connects them. But throughout the season, it builds and builds. It’s electric guitars, actually, playing the broken children’s tune that comes up kind of sad. It’s definitely in the instrumentation and the baby’s theme that we gave him in the first season, which is kind of the first hint of pure human emotion that we play for Mandalorian. And I think that’s what the music is trying to portray.Īnd how do you create that feeling? Is it in the types of instruments you use or the tempo? For a layperson, how would you explain what’s happening in the music to create that sense in the viewer? Should he take the baby, and get his money, and give it to the bad guys? Or should he keep it and protect it? It’s a constant struggle. The music is more playing just struggles that the Mandalorian’s going through when he’s dealing with this thing. It turns out to be the thing that gets him these feelings that he doesn’t understand in the beginning. It’s a struggle for him because the baby turns out to be the thing that makes him human. What are you doing with the instruments and the composition to create that feeling the Mandalorian has, which I would say is sometimes annoyance, sometimes puzzlement, right? It felt like you really were trying to do something very, very different. It seemed like you were trying consciously also to go a different direction than the John Williams score. That was a magic power that Ennio had, to be able to make these interesting combinations. But immediately when you hear it, it resonates with your whole body. In The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, it’s a similar idea, is that it’s two notes. Just the way he experimented in production, the way he brought in different styles of instruments combined with each other, and he really pushed the envelope so far and he made it also sound so simple and so close. I don’t know how you can be in this field and not be inspired by his achievements and his music. We’re talking the day after he passed away, so I wondered, was his music, particularly with Sergio Leone’s films, as big an influence on you as it appears? The first time I heard your music, we hear that lonely recorder as the Mandalorian steps through the doors…it reminded me so much of Ennio Morricone. My first step to score this was to add all these organic instruments: guitars, bass, piano, flutes, recorders, because I knew that that was an important element to bring into this world, is the organic human feeling. I think the contrast with this wind instrument, as you said, sounded like a wind, or it sounds like a tree. Yeah, it’s so organic, compared to all the other elements that are in the show visually. The sort of sound of whistling through trees or the call of some lonely animal. It almost sounds like the wind, doesn’t it? Like something you would hear out on a plain or in a canyon. Well, for me, it always resembled or made me think of a lone man’s journey. What emotions does that instrument conjure for you? And you hear the orchestra coming in, and you see the ship.
On top of the theme, in the middle of the video, you see the world expanding. And then the third element is a huge orchestra, which I wanted to get the soul of Star Wars. When I started receiving the episodes and saw the scope of the show and the different planets they went to, and all the different creatures, I started expanding the sound, adding the tech elements, a lot of synthesizers, a lot of program beats and modern production.
And I created these songs, but that was just me playing all the instruments. The music is the facial expression, telling how he feels going through this journey. You’re following this character throughout the show, and he wears a helmet, so he doesn’t have any facial expressions. Was there was a loner aspect to the recording of this theme? Is that a fair way to look at it? I thought it was striking that you have a show that’s about this loner character, and here, the score, which sounds like a great many people, was actually performed by its composer. I wrote about five songs, and these songs became the material that I used throughout the show. And then I went to the guitars, and then I went to the drums. And I went to the piano and played something else. I’d start with a recorder, and thanks to those instruments, I got inspiration. The music, especially, had such an impact on me. I wanted to get back a little bit into that mentality, because I remember watching Star Wars for the first time as a kid.
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