The aspiring journalists at Pitchfork Media are reporting that Interpol bassist Carlos D. (née Dengler) reportedly wants to become an aspiring film composer. Awww, isn’t that adorable? Not content with simply being the most syphilis-ridden bassist in indie-rock, Dengler has started a new website where he has already assumed the title of “Film & Television Composer” (that’s cute, we’re going to add MD. to our bio too).
The up-and-comers at Pitchfork have posted his online bio which has that can-do spirit similarily championed by folks like the Special Olympics.
“Carlos is an aspiring film and tv composer in addition to playing bass and keyboards in Interpol. His understanding of harmonic principles and an ear for colorful orchestration have contributed notably to the Interpol sound and are integral to his work as a composer. Although working in a different musical environment, Carlos utilizes the same skills in scoring as he does in Interpol.
Carlos’ influences include film composers Angelo Badalamenti, James Newton Howard, Alexander Desplat, and classical composers Henryk Gorecki, Arvo Pärt, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
How could you possibly turn away that cover letter? Hire this kid, stat! The entrepreneurial musician has posted clips online of films like “X-Men 3” and Werner Herzog’s Kuwaiti oil fields burning documentary “Lessons of Darkness,” and ever so inventively, infringed existing copyright and replaced the existing music, with his own music! Very clever.
People this kid can compose like nobodies business. Personally, we think his peppy version of “The Devil Wears Prada” totally trumps the original. It’s probably only weeks away until Interpol are auditioning new bassists on Craigslist and Dengler is thanking his former chums from an Oscar stage.
Dengler composed the real score (as opposed to the make-believe ones to actually exisiting films) “Golgatha” made by his “friend” Daniel Ryan and it is very deep and dark and makes you go, “hmmmm….” Although he already has two budding careers, the altruistic bass player has also been managed to find the time to help save animals.
Watch: “Golgotha”
Download: Interpol – “The Heinrich Manuever”
