Lakeshore Records is set to release 
John Wick: Chapter 4—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally March 24 with an original score by Tyler Bates (John Wick, Guardians of the Galaxy), and Joel J. Richard (John Wick, The Andromeda Strain). Bates and Richard, their scores an integral part of the success of the first three installments of John Wick, return with another masterclass in high intensity compositions that feature an array of instruments – including treated piano, mandolin, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, harmonica orchestra, synths, and found object percussion. Bates also produced songs performed by Lola Colette with Nick and Sam Wilkerson of the punk band White Reaper on drums and bass respectively, as well as tracks with In This Moment and Manon Hollander. In addition, the track written and produced by Bates with vocals by Avant pop phenomenon and cast member Rina Sawayama, “Eye For An Eye,” is available digitally today, March 22. The Lionsgate film directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Scott Adkins and Ian McShane is in theaters and IMAX March 24.
John Wick (Reeves) uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Says Bates: “It’s an honor to work with my brother Joel Richard in creating the musical landscape for a decade of John Wick! Thank you, Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves, for having us on board and making these films with such fire and passion!”
Track List
- Big Wick Energy
- Nowhere to Run – Lola Colette
- Sand Wick
- Change Your Nature
- Continental Breakfast
- Wick in Osaka
- High Table in Osaka
- A Grave Accusation
- Grief on a Train
- I Would Die for You – In This Moment
- Of Mincing & Men
- A Grave Situation
- To Get Back In
- Killa’s Teeth
- Ambition and Worth
- Dog Lover
- JW, Loving Husband
- Stairs Arrival
- Marie Douceur, Marie Colère – Manon Hollander
- John Wick Rises
- Paris Radio Intro
- Chess Club
- Urban Cowgirl
- Quite the Mess You’ve Made
- The Ex Ex
- The Ex Ex Chapter 3
- Arc De Triomphe
- Wrong Train
- Sacré-Coeur Sunrise
- Pistol Procession
- Ten Paces
- Twenty Paces
- Helen A Handbasket
- Eye For an Eye – Rina Sawayama
- Cry Mia River
ABOUT TYLER BATES
Tyler Bates regularly transitions from scoring some of the world’s biggest film and television franchises, such as Guardians of the Galaxy and John Wick, to rocking massive audiences in the world of rock music, and back to the studio again writing and producing records with artists like HEALTH, Bush, In This Moment, and Starcrawler, to name a few.
In 2004, he created the menacing audio backdrop for the popular Zack Snyder reboot of Dawn of the Dead, beginning a string of nearly a dozen box office number one’s that have contributed to well over 5 billion dollars cumulative worldwide box-office gross for his projects. Bates then teamed up with Snyder again for the films 300, Watchmen and Sucker Punch. His oeuvre expanded to include films like Atomic Blonde, The Devil’s Rejects, The Day the Earth Stood Still, William Friedkin’s Killer Joe, and TV Shows like Californication, Punisher, The Purge, Kingdom, Salem, The Exorcist and more.
More recently, Bates scored the blockbuster Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, Deadpool 2, Jamie Foxx’s Dayshift, Ti West’s 2022 releases X and Pearl, The Spy Who Dumped Me, plus Genndy Tartakovsky’s acclaimed animated series’ Samurai Jack and Primal on Adult Swim. After scoring Cirque du Soleil’s R.U.N, Bates embarked on the 2022 world tour in support of Jerry Cantrell’s latest album Brighten, which he also co-produced. With more new projects on the horizon including Agent Elvis, Tyler Bates will undoubtedly continue to redefine what a composer is as a shapeshifting artist who’s architected one of the most kaleidoscopic resumes in music.
ABOUT JOEL J. RICHARD
At age 5 Joel J. Richard was obsessed with three things: The Muppets, The Shining, and his grandparents’ upright piano. His passion for music evolved with the purchase of a 4-track recorder and an electric guitar. By his late teens he found himself touring with bands in the New York hardcore rock scene, simultaneously citing 20th-century classical music, art-rock, hip-hop, and Americana among his creative influences. Composer and producer Joel J. Richard’s unorthodox music background would go on to shape his sound—fusing time-honored musicality with moving atmospheric experimentation.
Joel’s knack for inventive hybrid composition is evident in his scores for Ridley and Tony Scott’s Emmy nominated THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, ABC’s QUANTICO, Blumhouse/Hulu’s INTO THE DARK: SCHOOL SPIRIT, Brannon Braga & Seth McFarlane’s Fuzzy Door productions’ BOOKS OF BLOOD, and the Lionsgate blockbusters JOHN WICK I, II and III.
Joel J Richard’s versatile talent serves raw and unbridled industrial rock-influenced compositions, and beautifully intimate acoustic ensemble scores.
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