How would Calexico have scored No Country For Old Men?
We’d take our cue from the director and the theme of the movie. I wouldn’t want to play it necessarily so Southwestern. I like the soundtrack to There Will Be Blood because has that sense of organic instrumentation. The harmonies and everything tap more into this deeper theme, rather than like a superficial surface connection. That’s what I think I would’ve wanted to do with that. There’s really some dark dialogue and themes. I wouldn’t necessarily come out blazing with this huge Morricone style. That’s not really what we’re into doing anyways. But for a movie, it becomes more about what the director wants. This movie that we’re being asked to do, we’re being asked for all the right reasons—which makes it the more enjoyable to want to do. I would really want to take it to some dark places—more treated sounds, prepared guitar, mix things like that in. More effects and more textures. Something that you would expect to hear from an earlier Calexico album: producing sounds and tones throug
