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“#Travel<\/a>ogue Volume 1 \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"Michael<\/p>\n

Academy-award winning composer\u00a0Michael Giacchino\u00a0<\/strong>has finally made his debut album. Travelogue Volume 1<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0by Michael Giacchino and his Nouvelle Modernica Orchestra tells the story of an alien\u2019s journey on Earth. Each song opens with a narration of the alien describing her experience before Giacchino and his orchestra launch into snapp<\/a>y, melancholic, or adventurous foot-tapping and finger-snapping tunes.<\/p>\n

The album is a throwback to the old radio shows the composer grew up loving, the sound both nostalgic and modern. It is pure Giacchino fun with a side of darkness influenced by the unfortunate state of the world. The composer behind classic Pixar films,\u00a0Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/em>, and\u00a0the\u00a0most recent\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Planet of the Apes\u00a0<\/em>films orchestrated a sci-fi album for the times. As Giacchino told us over a zoom call from his beautiful workspace, the alien\u2019s story and his solo career won\u2019t end with volume one.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a snazzy office.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

This is where I work. It\u2019s behind my house, so it\u2019s nice that I have a separate place to come and work and hang out all day.\u00a0Those cabinets [behind me] are filled with things from my childhood, toys that I played with as a kid, and things that I got off the movies<\/a> that I\u2019ve worked on. It\u2019s a bunch of memories and goofy things.<\/p>\n

Which items make you especially proud?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are my Star Trek<\/em> action figures that I played with when I was nine or eight years old. There\u2019s my Planet of the Apes<\/em> action figures that I played with when I was a kid. There\u2019s a Speed Racer<\/em> toy that we had. Of course, there are all my Star Wars<\/em> figures in the case, and they\u2019re all original, and they are mine from when I played with them as a kid. There\u2019s a\u00a0Spider-Man puzzle that I had as a little kid, too. It\u2019s so weird \u2014 it\u2019s almost as if everything that I got as a little kid, I ended up working on in some way.<\/p>\n

Predestined. Congratulations on Travelogue Volume 1, by the way.<\/strong>
\nThank you.<\/p>\n

Was this a long time coming?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been wanting to do this for so many years. The problem was that I just didn\u2019t have the time. I couldn\u2019t because of work. It was a movie, after movie, after movie, after movie. For the past 15 years, it\u2019s been nonstop. Anytime I wanted to do something for me, it required a Herculean effort to get it done. I did the short with Patton Oswalt and Ben Schwartz, and then I did the Star Trek<\/em> animated short for them, but every time I did one of those, it had to be shoved in between all of these other things.<\/p>\n

Then COVID comes around and shoves everyone in their house, and all the movies that I was supposed to be working on got pushed into who knows when. I thought, well, why not use this time? That\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do. Every day I just came up here and treated it like another project that I had. I worked on it every day because it was in my head. I knew what I wanted to do for so many years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I got started, simply because I suddenly found myself with an open space in the schedule that I could either just sit around and do nothing, or actually be creative and keep my mind off of events going on. Then hopefully, pass that experience onto other people who could then do the same. Spend an hour listening to it, forget about the rest of the world, and hopefully, you have a moment of peace and creativity that they can be a part of.
\nIt was fun to do something that wasn\u2019t just an album, that also had a story to tell as well. I love old radio shows so much. I listen to them a lot. In particular, there\u2019s one called \u201cX Minus One,\u201d which is one of my favorites. I think you can get that from iTunes, but it\u2019s from the fifties and it\u2019s such great stories. I thought, can I blend that with my love of music, like that Martin Denny and Esquivel and Les Baxter, can I mix that all together and create some weird experience that I can then put out into the world? That\u2019s what I tried to do.<\/p>\n