I just watched a film called “Kill the Irishman” about Danny Greene defying the Mafia in 1970’s Cleveland, Ohio.
There were some very nice tunes on Uilleann pipes and tin whistle.
To my delight, and surprise it was our very own Michael Eskin in the credits!
They did not give credit to the piper though. Anyone know who did the piping? Maybe Michael?
Anyway, an enjoyable film made more so by the Trad tunes in it.
Cheers! Richard
A quick Google search takes me to his LinkedIn page, where I find this:
Soundtrack for the motion picture “Kill the Irishman”
2009 to 2010
Team Members: Michael Eskin
Working remotely with soundtrack composer Patrick Cassidy, I recorded all the Uilleann pipes, whistle, and Irish flute tracks for the movie “Kill the Irishman” with Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, and Val Kilmer. I’m now listed in the IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4527116/
There ya go!
I played all the Uilleann piping tracks for the movie, working with composer Patrick Cassidy. They screwed up the credits, and in spite of appeals by both me and Patrick, they did not fix them for either the DVD release or IMDB. Oh well.
The process was really interesting. I did the entire project from my home office/studio. Patrick would email me orchestral backing tracks and sheet music, there were about 32 in all. I’d overdub my tracks on top of the orchestral tracks and send him back to result with my playing on one channel and the backing track on the other. Sometimes it was full melodic lines, sometimes just noises or descending scales. You hear a lot of that when someone you’re supposed to care about dies in one of the many car-bomb explosions in the film. :- )
He’d take what I’d send him and drop it into the Logic Audio based project then sync it all up to the film using timecode. After we had completed the project, during final editing the producers decided that they really wanted to use Bonny Portmore instead of many tracks we had recorded so we had to redo many of the tracks nearly a year after the first round of recording.
I didn’t actually meet Patrick until the movie was out in the theaters, took a little side trip to his cottage studio up in West Hollywood, it was amazing seeing how movie music is actually mixed.
That movie should win an award for the overuse of one piece of diaoluge that goes like this:
“…because I’m Irish!”