Luzzu [official soundtrack], by Jon Natchez

Luzzu [official soundtrack]

by Jon Natchez

supported by

Alex Ruder / Hush Hush Records thumbnail

	/

Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Featuring new artwork taken from the movie stills.

EU orders are shipped within the EU - no customs fees!

Includes unlimited streaming of Luzzu [official soundtrack] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

Purchasable with gift card

£17 GBP or more
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£6 GBP or more
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music Phantom Limb releases, including 30 back-catalog items, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to subscriber-only exclusives. Learn more.

Subscribe Now £6.50 GBP/month or more

1.	Not Even God Will Stop It 00:59	buy track
2.	The Care He Needs 01:33	buy track
3.	Knock Him Into The Sea 01:29	buy track
4.	Need Any 01:30	buy track
5.	Fill Their Nets 01:19	buy track
6.	Scraping Off 01:32	buy track
7.	The Foreign Chill 02:30	buy track
8.	Give Me The Rope 02:30	buy track
9.	Afternoon Nap 01:17	buy track
10.	Like The Other One 01:11	buy track
11.	Happy 01:38	buy track
12.	Once There Was A Boat 04:04	buy track
13.	End Credits 03:26	buy track
14.	That's The Normal Kind 01:07	buy track
15.	This New Hawker 01:25	buy track
16.	All I've Got 01:37	buy track
17.	The Swordfish 01:22	buy track
18.	A Good Bit of Work 01:31	buy track
19.	Nothing's Biting Today 05:34	buy track

about

“Stirringly nuanced and dazzlingly humanistic…an unaffected triumph with a simmering power”
Los Angeles Times

“A new benchmark in Malta’s little-heralded film industry.”
Variety

LA composer and musician Jon Natchez (The War On Drugs, Beirut, David Byrne, St. Vincent) scores stunning, award-winning Maltese independent movie Luzzu for Phantom Limb’s Geist im Kino soundtrack imprint.

Maltese screenwriter and director Alex Camilleri’s glorious Luzzu sits at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. “All submerged,” writes Carlos Aguilar for the Los Angeles Times, “in Jon Natchez’s enrapturing score.” Composed for strings, flutes, clarinets, brass, synthesiser and the masterful harp of acclaimed artist Mary Lattimore, Natchez’s work for Luzzu celebrates, reflects, and glues together the gritty, loving agony of Camilleri’s staggering directorial debut.

The film tells the story of a young fisherman struggling under the scorching Maltese sun. He battles the sea’s diminishing returns, his newborn son’s illness, his partner’s judgemental family, and the slow death of a tradition his family has practised for generations. As money worries tighten their grip, Jesmark - magnificently portrayed by undiscovered nonprofessional actor Jesmark Scicluna - finds himself caught between morality and tradition, survival and responsibility. Camilleri’s screenwriting is challenging and potent, his portrait of rural Malta alive with vibrancy and colour.

Jon Natchez’s soundtrack expertly interweaves these themes. Barely-whispered woodwind chords light up dusty trails of synthesis. Propulsive percussive layers chatter with heady Mediterranean clamour. Mary Lattimore’s harp peeks out from clouds of sunwashed strings. In one profoundly stirring scene, the local priest wordlessly blesses the multitude of tiny, solo fishing vessels (the luzzu of the movie’s title) heading out for the day’s catch, guarding them against the tempers of the sea as he rows from one boat the next. Natchez makes the sequence both intense and tender with gently flowering Baroquish melodies.

credits

released May 6, 2022

license

about

Phantom Limb Brighton, UK

Weird jams
Since 2017

All orders sent domestically from UK, EU, or USA depending on customer location!

contact / help

Contact Phantom Limb

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Luzzu [official soundtrack], you may also like:

everything is alive
by Slowdive

supported by 6 fans who also own “Luzzu [official soundtrack]”

Shoegaze ist die Kunst des Dröhnens, doch „Everything Is Alive“ setzt diese Elemente nur sparsam ein. Statt Hall- und Zerr-Sounds aufzutürmen, schäumt die Musik in feinen Bläschen über. https://tortue.substack.com/i/140348114/slowdive-everything-is-alive-dead-oceans Daniel Welsch
go to album
Building Something Beautiful For Me
by Loraine James

supported by 6 fans who also own “Luzzu [official soundtrack]”

Beautiful beautiful album. Electronics and vocals for the soul. Much love to Loraine James for putting this out there. The world is now a better place and I'm a better human ❤️ mathattack
go to album
Konec
by Viul & Benoît Pioulard

supported by 6 fans who also own “Luzzu [official soundtrack]”

Oh, would I, wood eye! Brutalist_Receptacle
go to album
WITCH HOTEL O.S.T
by ACQUISITIONS

As you might guess from the title, this is strange and eerie synth music meant to conjure a mystical film where all is not what it seems. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 14, 2023
go to album
Recordings 1987-1991 Vol. 2
by Valentina Goncharova

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 15, 2022
go to album
Kobzareva Duma, 1976
by Shapoval Sextet

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 7, 2022
go to album
Living Torch
by Kali Malone

supported by 6 fans who also own “Luzzu [official soundtrack]”

My heart is beating slower and faster at the same time kwellou
go to album