We’re thrilled to share a new Mark Isham score: Soul On Fire, based on the incredible true story of John O’Leary, who overcame the odds after surviving a 100% body burn accident. Soul On Fire—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack releases digitally today December 19 via Lakeshore Records, featuring music by Grammy® and Emmy® award winning composer Mark Isham (Judas and the Black Messiah). Isham’s soaring orchestral score provides an uplifting backdrop to the inspiring theme of the film. Listen to “The Cards Game Is Playing” from the album, below.
Notes Isham: “John O’Leary’s story is so inspiring and Sean McNamara’s telling of it is so joyful and compelling! It was a true pleasure to contribute to this exhilarating and uplifting tale.”
Soul On Fire is currently available on VOD.
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Track List
- The Cards Game is Starting
- We Are Ready For You
- Playing With Fire
- Fire
- The Tub Room
- Why Me?
- Walk With Me
- Prison
- Preparing To Stand
- Friend Zoned
- Missing Fingers
- Teaching Gratitude
- Beth Practices
- Ahead Of Schedule
- Intentionally Living
- Look At That Beautiful Face
- John Bares His Arms
- Leaving The Hospital
- A Gift From Jack
- New Digs
- Bigger Office
- Road Trip
- John’s Wall
- Goodbye Jack
- I’m Glad They Found You
- Breaking News to Dad
- Pregame
- First Pitch
- Rounding The Bases
ABOUT MARK ISHAM
Mark Isham is an electronic music innovator, jazz artist and prolific film composer. Isham’s ability to create unforgettable melodies, combined with his willingness to experiment with innovative musical palettes, has earned him accolades including Grammy and Emmy awards, and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
Isham’s inimitable musical voice is evident in his memorable scores for award-winning features including the Oscar-winning Judas and the Black Messiah, Crash and A River Runs Through It (Oscar nomination) along with Golden Globe winning Bobby, and Nell (Golden Globe nomination). For The Black Dahlia, Isham was awarded “Best Score” by the International Film Music Critics Association.
He has collaborated with top directors and artists including Shaka King, Lynn Shelton, Swizz Beatz, Jodie Foster, George Tillman, Robert Redford, Forest Whitaker, Tom Cruise, Brian De Palma, Chick Corea, Robert Altman, Sting, Will.i.am, Sidney Lumet, and Mick Jagger.
Most Recently, as well as the aformentionaed Judas and the Black Messiah for Warner Bros, Isham has scored Victorian Sci-Fi drama series The Nevers for HBO, and his second season of EPIX series The Godfather of Harlem. Other recent projects include Bill and Ted Face the Music, Togo for Disney+, and Hulu’s limited series Little Fires Everywhere, for which he garnered his sixth Emmy nomination.
In 2020, Isham made Cannes Film Festival history as the first film composer to perform a live in-studio concert of some of his most beloved scores, for the inaugural film music summit of the Cannes Film Market, the business counterpart of the prestigious festival.
Watch the trailer for Soul On Fire:
Directed by Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer, Reagan), written by Gregory Poirier and based on O’Leary’s bestselling memoir, On Fire, this film is an emotional and faith-filled portrait of resilience as O’Leary not only battles to survive but ultimately discovers what it means to truly live.
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