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With all eight episodes now available to stream on Disney Plus, the music for all episodes by Michael Abels is now available on a number of platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon. Below is the playlist from DisneyMusicVEVO on YouTube, and the campaign starts here for a physical release for this glorious suite of music. [amazon box="B0D9HY4S44"]

The music from the first four episodes of The Acolyte are now available on Disney Music VEVO on YouTube and on Apple Music, which means you can bask not only in the glorious music of composer Michael Abels, but really delve into the Acolyte era again and again. Here's what Abels had to say about the score. "The instrumentation of the score is classic orchestral with 21st-century innovations. The multi-cultural percussion is live and virtual with heavy use of Taiko drums. Some of the wind instruments are also virtual, to achieve a sound that is of this world and beyond. Sonic textures and processed effects were incorporated to create terrifying musical moments, giving those sounds an organic quality, rather than electronic. Voices are a crucial element with a limited use of a large choir, but throughout the score, there is a featured group of diverse female voices representing the twins' home planet and the culture in which they were raised." [amazon box="B0D7BHPS5X"]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kPoBKsu9qXs?feature=share The music of The Acolyte is one of many elements of the show being praised by the fandom, and here composer Michael Abels discusses the musical beats of the opening scenes of the very first episode, what's already become known as the Noodle Fight. Composer Michael Abels discusses creating the sounds of the opening noodle shop fight. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WaZsA97XgaE?feature=share Abels also delves into the music of the third episode Destiny. Composer Michael Abels discusses the music of Episode 3. [amazon box="B0CQTQP5YX"]

In a busy day for Collider, as well as claiming to know the 'tentative' arrival date of The Acolyte, they also claim that composer Michael Abels has been 'tapped' to compose the score for the series which if their dates are correct will arrive on Disney Plus in just 105 days time. Collider can also confirm that Michael Abels, the composer best known for his work alongside Jordan Peele in his three feature films Get Out, Us and Nope, has also been tapped to produce the score for the upcoming series. Abels also composed the opera Omar, about the life of Omar ibn Said, based on his autobiography A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said, written in 1831, mostly in Arabic. For his work on Omar, Abels—alongside composer and librettist Rhiannon Giddens—was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2023. Abels' score for Us received countless end-of-year nominations at numerous awards ceremonies, while it was named "Score of the Decade" by The Wrap. You'd think with the show long since completed and a launch date just over 3 months away the score would be in place - and as ever, until confirmed by Lucasfilm it's very much unofficial - but a composer with Abels pedigree scoring a Star Wars project is an enticing thought, and we'll be sure to discuss it on future episodes of Making Tracks. [amazon box="0593597958"]

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