Blending the raw, rhythmic soul of 
South American folk with high-end cinematic grandeur comes La Casa De Los Espíritus (Banda Sonora Original De La Serie De Amazon Prime) or The House of the Spirits (Original Soundtrack From The Amazon Prime Series), featuring a sweeping and innovative score by composer Tomás Videla. Timed with the premiere of the highly anticipated Prime Video series, already hailed as a Variety Critic’s Pick, this marks the first-ever Spanish-language adaptation of Isabel Allende’s iconic novel.
Videla has created a “Cinematic Folk” score, merging an elite Budapest orchestra with the authentic grit of local South American guitars and percussion. The resulting score is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling: by incorporating specialized tango techniques directly into the orchestral string writing, Videla captures the Trueba family’s multi-generational saga of passion and political unrest.
Videla notes, “Finding the musical identity for The House of the Spirits meant honoring the South American musical roots of the setting while embracing the show’s massive cinematic scope. We established the main theme early on, often centering it around the guitar, allowing it to transform through different instrumental voices to match different characters and the passing of time across the family’s history. The orchestra served as the emotional glue, connecting the different generations of women in the Trueba family through every era. We treated the ‘magical realism’ not as a separate element to be highlighted, but as the very fabric of the score trying to mirror Isabel Allende’s prose. The soloists truly brought that South American spirit and magical realism to life with their performances. Being part of this adaptation was truly an honor, and I couldn’t be happier with how the series and its sound have come together.”
“Encontrar la identidad musical para La Casa de los Espíritus significó honrar las raíces musicales sudamericanas abrazando al mismo tiempo la escala cinematográfica de la serie. Establecimos el tema principal desde un principio centrándolo muchas veces en la guitarra y permitiendo que se transformara a través de distintos instrumentos para acompañar a los distintos personajes y el paso del tiempo en la historia de la familia. La orquesta funcionó como el hilo conductor emocional conectando las distintas generaciones de mujeres de la familia Trueba a través de cada época. Tratamos al ‘realismo mágico’ no como un elemento separado a resaltar, sino como parte del tejido mismo de la música, intentando reflejar el universo de Isabel Allende. Los músicos solistas realmente le dieron vida a ese espíritu sudamericano y al realismo mágico con sus interpretaciones. Ser parte de esta adaptación fue un verdadero honor, y no podría estar más feliz con el resultado final de la serie.”
La Casa De Los Espíritus (Banda Sonora Original De La Serie De Amazon Prime)
Tracklisting
- Cuadernos De Anotar La Vida – Tomás Videla
- Barrabás Llegó Por Vía Marítima – Tomás Videla
- Deja La Vida Volar – Manuel García
- Rosa La Bella – Tomás Videla
- Blancaluna – NIKOKONT
- Las Tres Marías – Tomás Videla
- Las Gallinas Y El Zorro – NIKOKONT
- Silencio Roto – Tomás Videla
- Las Sufragistas – Tomás Videla
- Aguardiente – Tomás Videla, Ari Mason
- Dicen Que Soy Flor De Otoño – Villamillie
- Tentación – Tomás Videla
- La Niebla – Tomás Videla
- Tango De La Que No Volvió
- Dos Blancas – Tomás Videla, HunOak Park
- Cúpula – Tomás Videla
- Un Tren de Trocha Angosta – Tomás Videla
- Astros Combinados – Tomás Videla
- Presente Triste – Tomás Videla
- Golpe – Tomás Videla
- Himno Del Pueblo – Angelo Pierattini
- Del Valle – Tomás Videla
- Perrera – Tomás Videla
- Gran Rompecabezas – Tomás Videla
- Cuando Te Vayas De Mi – Villamillie
- Si Te Mudas De Este Valle – Villamillie
ABOUT THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
The House of the Spirits is a magnificent family saga that tells the epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family’s passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.
ABOUT TOMÁS VIDELA
Tomás Videla is a Los Angeles based composer for film, television and media, who creates highly elaborate orchestral music often mixed with hybrid and electronic elements. He is also an experienced orchestrator and skilled conductor.
Most recently, Tomás composed the lush original score for The House of the Spirits, the first Spanish-language adaptation of Isabel Allende’s iconic novel, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. His versatile body of work also includes music for the Apple TV+ documentary series The Dynasty: New England Patriots, Mattel’s He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe on Netflix, Disney’s LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales, and Netflix’s A Tale Dark And Grimm. Additionally, he contributed music to HBO’s documentary series The Invisible Pilot, the Emmy-nominated Netflix feature documentary Kangaroo Valley, and the Emmy-nominated National Geographic feature Retrograde.
As a composer for independent film, Tomás has scored several award-winning shorts. These include Jeong, which won “Best Original Score” at the Vermiose Film Festival, and Prom Night, which has garnered over 5 million views on YouTube. His concert piece Midwest Tango was nominated for Best Instrumental at the 2022 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA).
As an orchestrator and conductor he is featured in the documentary shorts Cities of the Future (narrated by John Krasinski) and Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels (narrated by Matthew McConaughey), for which he also composed the music and received a HMMA nomination, the film American Traitor: The Trial Of Axis Sally (starring Al Pacino) nominated for Outstanding Original Score at the SCL Awards, Sand And Snow, Mucho Mucho Amor (screened at Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest Film Festival and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and now streaming on Netflix), and Force Of Nature, starring Mel Gibson.
Tomas has collaborated with several musicians, such as award-winning composers Michael Kramer, H. Scott Salinas, Jeff Morrow, Dino Meneghin, Theodore Shapiro, Peter Golub, Brandon Campbell, David Wingo, Nathan Wang, Kubilay Üner and Adam Dib, singer-songwriter Jessica Childress, composer and pianist Nico Posse and Sebastian Huydts, and conductors Arturo Rodriguez, Allen Tinkham and Angel Velez, to name a few.
