The very first sonic reference director Barry Jenkins sent to composer and frequent collaborator Nicholas Britell for “The Underground Railroad,” the epic 10-part Amazon series, was a c…
,” the epic 10-part Amazon series, was a cryptic audio message of a drilling sound.
The series chronicles Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South before the Civil War. After she escapes a Georgia plantation, she seeks the fabled railroad, and in this alternate history where the railroad exists, discovers it is full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath Southern soil that helps on her journey north and to freedom.
Britell added an inner descending chromatic element with chords that he further tinkered with, and in January 2020, when he was in Los Angeles with Jenkins, the piece became “Pillars.” He pushed the experiment further with a “shaking tremolo” on the strings which Jenkins loved.
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