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Sound of Cinema: Episode 146: First Contact

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First Contact

Episode 146

Episode 146: First Contact

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Music for films about contact with new worlds, new people and extra-terrestrials.

Matthew Sweet presents music for films about contact with new worlds, new people and extra-terrestrials in the week of the relase of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi film Arrival.

Matthew Sweet with music for films about contact with new worlds, new people and extra-terrestrials, in the week of "Arrival", a new Sci Fi film with a score by Jóhann Jóhannsson.

The programme features music from "The New World"; "1492 - Conquest of Paradise"; "The Mission"; "The Abyss"; "First Men In The Moon"; "The Terrornauts"; "The War of the Worlds"; "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"; "ET - The Extra Terrestrial" and "Arrival".

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