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Shavo Scores "Babylon AD" Film |
Posted by ZAk on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 10:47 AM
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 Shavo
Odadjian, music video director, DJ, and bassist for the multi-Platinum,
Grammy Award-winning rock band System of a Down, will add film scorer to his
list of credits with his work on the upcoming sci-fi/thriller feature film,
"Babylon AD," starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Gerard Depardieu. The
film is being directed by Cannes Award winning French director Mathieu Kassovitz
("La Haine/Hate"), and will be released over the Labor Day (May) Weekend, 2008.
Working closely on the score with Academy Awarding winning composer Hans Zimmer
and composer Atli Orvarsson, Odadjian is collaborating with writing/scoring
partner, Wu-Tang Clan's The RZA, writing and scoring several tracks for "Babylon
AD," as well as various "futuristic-specific" musical themes and orchestration
throughout the film.
"Musically, our objective was to merge the sounds and
energies of hip hop with classical music, seamlessly melting them into an
unusual soundscape," explained Zimmer. "Shavo's unique talent, perspective and
ability have achieved exactly that, and then some."
Much of the music for the score is being performed by Achozen, the
musical alliance formed by Odadjian and The RZA.
As bassist for System of a Down, Odadjian has seen every one of the band's five
albums hit the Platinum mark with three debuting at #1 on Billboard's Albums
charts, and has sold in excess of 10-milliion albums in the U.S. alone. He has
written and/or directed the music videos for the band's "Toxicity," "Aerials,"
"Question" and "Hypnotize," and earlier this year, wrote and directed the Bad
Brains video for the song, "Give Thanks and Praises."
"I've been working 6 days a week for the last 2 months till I finished the
score and soundtrack for "Babylon" on Tuesday the 11th. Also I cleared "Metal
Health"--Quiet Riot..... RIP Kevin and "Dead Embryonic Cells"--- Sepultura for
the same film" Shavo Odadjian exclusively to SOADFans.com
You can follow-up the Film info on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364970/
Shavo has been recently jam'n/recording in the studio with
George Clinton, a set of photos taken by Greg
Watermann has been released on Shavo's official myspace page, you can check them
out here:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=40935077&albumId=1294937
or alternatively you check them out in the Forums:
http://www.soadfans.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-20996.htm
Photo credit(s): Greg Watermann
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Comments
anniemannie3
16.12.07, 13:02
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Ooh . . . heaps cool :D
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vitaminfromthesky
16.12.07, 14:22
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amazing, this is great
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Mikke
16.12.07, 16:18
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Cool:D
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Farry
16.12.07, 17:17
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This is nice. I like Shavo work's out of SOAD because they are really "professional".
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ez2dj
16.12.07, 18:39
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GOOOO Shavo im impressed very
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tiffanyevett
16.12.07, 20:50
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same where aswell farry, i luv his work to , i think he does a really good job on a lot of things in his life, lol, and it is all professional like crazy, lol, good job shavo :)
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Serj'sLUVER-YEA
16.12.07, 21:55
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hehe, for a second I thought they said that he was gonna be in the movie. I was gonna go crazy, but I was so wrong. But still what he's doing is cool. (Man I feel like an idiot.) Oh well, GO SHAVO!
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koly39
16.12.07, 22:18
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after reading this i just wondered, why shavo wasn't one of the people serj chose to direct one of his music videos??
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Rainbow_Chile
16.12.07, 22:48
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Koly he was probably too damn busy for that! Though I'm sure he'd have done a great job at that as well. Multi-talent. =)
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katherinechile
17.12.07, 01:19
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Wonderful! Every day I am surprised more individual members of soad .. Each of them have a lot of talent! Wow! Shavo .. Good luck in everything! They are really professionals!
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DaroNa
17.12.07, 07:10
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Great! Shavo lol. You right katherinechile, SOAD members are have a lot of talents. Thats why I love them.
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Crack||
17.12.07, 17:36
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Can't w8 til i hear the sounds!
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sodomizer
17.12.07, 23:35
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shavo plays drums..?
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obeythegiant
18.12.07, 05:19
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sweet.
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ZAk
18.12.07, 15:25
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I was wondering the same thing, why Shavo wasnt one of the 12 directors of Serj' songs!!?
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lyonguitar
19.12.07, 22:54
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shavos fuckin awsum
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cute-girl
02.01.08, 18:15
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waw cool
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shotgunjoe
11.01.08, 23:24
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I can't wait to hear Achozen! I love hip hop!
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