- Film And TV
- 02 Feb 22
The soundtrack will feature a brand new song; the last worked on by Fergus O'Farrell before he passed away.
A soundtrack album for the documentary Breaking Out, about the Cork singer/songwriter Fergus O'Farrell, has just been revealed.
Released exclusively on Bandcamp today, the music will be eleven tracks "chosen to represent some of Ferg’s best writing."
All of the songs featured have been remastered by Bob Ludwig of Gateway Mastering. as well as "restored, re-engineered and mixed by long-standing interference producer Dan Dan Fitzgerald in his studio Sound Sound in Cork Ireland," according to a press release accompanying the news.
The album has also come out on the anniversary of frontman Fergus O'Farrell passing away at the age of 46 from muscular dystrophy, on February 2, 2016.
Breaking Out: The Soundtrack also features the brand new song ‘I Owe You Nothing’, the last song Fergus worked on before his death.
"Written by Fergus and Malcolm MacClancy the song is heavily featured in the film where we see Fergus and Glen with other members of the Frames recording the song, in Ferg’s home in Schull west Cork, some two weeks before he finally lost his battle with Muscular Dystrophy," the press release also states.
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"The song was completed by Karl Odlum with a little help from James O’Leary and Glen Hansard before being shipped off to Bob Ludwig in Portland Maine, USA to be mastered alongside the other ten tracks chosen for the album."
The full tracklist for the soundtrack to Breaking Out is as follows:
- Gold
- Breaking Out
- Wild Bill’s Circus Scene
- Something Right
- American Townland
- Vaj Vaj
- Looking For Someone
- Cain & Abel
- Sail On
- I Owe You Nothing
- Dark Days.
Listen to the album below.