Test Pattern

Jay McCarrol

Test Pattern

Show Notes

Musician, composer and Nirvanna the Band the Show co-creator Jay McCarrol joins Angus Truskett to discuss Tony, the new A24 film starring Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain.

It’s a conversation about movie scores, creative instinct and nearly two decades of making things with Matt Johnson.

We get into: the E.T. score that changed everything for Jay, finding the sparse and creaky sound of Tony, how he knows when a piece of music is actually working, his shorthand with Matt Johnson, The Sopranos, what’s next for Nirvanna the Band—and the Canadian film everyone should watch.

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Music by Gab Strum.

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