Clint Mansell

 
Artist:

Clint Mansell

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  • Period: Contemporary (1950- )

Biography

Frontman for the sadly defunct Pop Will Eat Itself, among other things, Clint Mansell (b. January 7, 1963, Coventry, England) has played a lot of music. Affectionately known as Clint Poppie, he started out in 1981, forming a group called From Eden, which included future members of Pop Will Eat Itself, in the English industrial city of Stourbridge. After several years, the band broke up (they argued over who had performed better on The Tube). Mansell, along with future Poppies Adam Mole and Graham Crabb, then recruited the fourth Poppie, Richard March, and proceeded to release an EP as Wild and Wandering. On their next EP, self-released, the band finally came to rest with the name Pop Will Eat Itself, stolen from an NME article.

Signed to Chapter 22, Pop Will Eat Itself put out a series of singles and a pair of albums, attracting much attention. Eventually, they signed to RCA. After three albums, innumerable singles, and a fair amount of critical and commercial success, RCA dumped the Poppies. They immediately signed with their former A&R man's label, Infectious. After another pair of albums, the band began to fragment. Crabb split for his own project, Golden Claw Music, and in 1996 Pop Will Eat Itself split up.

Mansell moved to the U.S. after the breakup. He then proceeded to write the score to the movie Pi, and he produced a limited-edition U.K. remix 12" of the movie's theme. In addition, he has worked with Trent Reznor, both helping with remixes and appearing on Nine Inch Nail's album The Fragile, and has pursued film scoring aggressively, including the scores for Knockaround Guys and Requiem for a Dream. Finally, he is currently at work on a solo album, to be released on Nothing Records. ~ Joshua Landau ~ Joshua Landau, All Music Guide

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Actor:

Clint Mansell

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  • Active: 2000s
  • Major Genres: Thriller, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Fountain
  • First Major Screen Credit: Pi (1998)

Biography

Composer and musician Clint Mansell left behind a career in a groundbreaking British pop group to break just as many rules -- and find nearly as much success -- writing musical scores for motion pictures. Born in Coventry, England, in 1963, Mansell first rose to fame as singer, guitarist, and leader of the band Pop Will Eat Itself, whose deliriously rude blend of punk, pop, hip-hop, electronic, and dance music made them one of the most influential British groups of their day. The "Poppies" (as their fans called them) released seven albums between 1987 and 1996, but as the various members of the group became involved in side projects, PWEI began to splinter, and they decided to call it quits after the release of their final album, Wise up Suckers. After the breakup, Mansell moved to the United States, and began devoting himself to purer electronic sounds as he investigated the possibilities of film composition. In 1998, Mansell completed his first film score, for the acclaimed independent feature Pi; Mansell's score received wide acclaim, and Pi's director, Darren Aronofsky, tapped Mansell to score his ambitious follow-up, 2000's Requiem for a Dream. The success of Mansell's scores for Aronofsky quickly made him an in-demand film composer, and he scored six films in 2001 and 2002, including Knockaround Guys, The Hole, and Murder By Numbers. ~ Mark Deming ~ All Movie Guide

 
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Clint Mansell

Background information
Birth name Clinton Darryl Mansell
Born 7 January 1963 (1963-01-07) (age 45)
Origin Coventry, England
Genre(s) Rock, Film score
Occupation(s) Musician, Composer
Years active 1981–present
Associated acts Pop Will Eat Itself
Website clintmansell.com

Clint Mansell (born Clinton Darryl Mansell, 7 January 1963, Coventry, England) is a Golden Globe-nominated musician and composer and former lead singer and guitarist of Pop Will Eat Itself.

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Career

Pop career

Mansell was the lead singer and guitarist of the British band Pop Will Eat Itself. After the disbanding of PWEI in 1996, Mansell broke into the world of film scoring when his friend, director Darren Aronofsky, hired him to score his debut film, π.

Soundtrack composer

Despite critical acclaim, Mansell's score for π went widely unnoticed by the general public. However, the soundtrack release, placing Mansell's work alongside tracks from Autechre, Aphex Twin, Orbital and Roni Size, did win many fans from the IDM and electronica communities.[citation needed]

Mansell's score for π was followed up by his score for Aronofsky's next film, Requiem for a Dream (see Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)), and the score became a cult hit. The trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers contained a rearranged version of the track "Lux Aeterna," utilizing a full orchestra and choir. The piece, named "Requiem for a Tower", was made just for the trailer. The orchestration was arranged by Simone Benyacar, Dan Nielsen, and Veigar Margeirsson.

"Lux Aeterna" has since become popular, with both the original and the orchestration having appeared in a wide variety of commercials and trailers, including the trailer for the Red Sox-Yankee games in the 2007 baseball season, and trailers for the films Zathura, The Da Vinci Code, Sunshine, Babylon A.D. and the TV series Lost. It is also used on Sky Sports News and as the theme for Soccer Saturday.

Other notable achievements include the theme for the film The Hole, the music for the pilot episode of CSI: NY, and the score for Aronofsky's latest film The Fountain, which was nominated for Best Original Score in the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards.[1] Mansell has most recently contributed the score to HBO's Voyeur. The song was also used as the base theme for the song "Throw It Up" by Lil Jon.

Mansell has garnered a cult following for his soundtrack work, so much that Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan admits to receiving "blatant threats" when the soundtrack was released without much of Mansell's score for the film.[citation needed] This led to releasing a platinum edition soundtrack which is all Mansell's music. The album included the following insert explaining the situation:

Clint Mansell likes it rough... ...no, I mean it. We engaged him on 'Smokin' the way you would a contract killer. Here's a name and a photo...now bring us back a body...that's about as much he was given to go on. Well that and about six weeks to compose the entire score... ...and I think he prefers it that way. If you have NO times and innumerable complications, then Clint Mansell is your man. THE man. All clutch. He's that freak from the bomb squad who sits, pliers perched, waiting for the countdown clock to hit '00:01' before he starts snipping wires. And he killed this one. Somehow managing to stitch the most wildly divergent disassociative elements of 'Smokin' Aces' into a singular theme. Bravo old boy. You've earned every last bottle of beer I piled into your fridge...and then drank before you did. I'm most pleased and selfishly so i might add, that Lakeshore decided to give the score its own separate album. The amount of blatant threats and promises of bloodletting I received from this cultish, hardcore fan base that claim Clint as their pagan savior was enough to drive me into hiding. I hope 'Clint Crazier' are so sated by their master's latest musical offering and would only ask that they stop driving by my house in the middle of the night, playing the 'Requiem' score at full volume. I get it, you were pissed, but now the neighbors are circulating a petition so knock it off. JC

The song "Death is the Road to Awe" from his score for The Fountain was featured in a trailer for the 2007 film I Am Legend, and the trailer for the film The Mist, as well as the trailer for the upcoming film, Frost/Nixon.

Scoring credits

References

  1. ^ 64th Golden Globe Awards nominations

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