Earlier than he died in August at age 80, Robbie Robertson scored Martin Scorsese’s new film, Killers of the Flower Moon. In the present day, Sony Music Masterworks has launched the late Band musician’s official soundtrack for the movie. Take heed to it beneath.

Killers of the Flower Moon, launched in U.S. theaters at present (October 20), relies on David Grann’s 2017 ebook of the identical title. The movie facilities on the murders of Osage folks within the Twenties after oil was found on tribal land.

Robbie Robertson’s mom was of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, and he was raised on the Six Nations Reserve close to Toronto. In a posthumously printed press assertion, he spoke in regards to the significance of his heritage in composing the film’s rating:

I used to be gathering photos in my head of music I heard as a baby on the Six Nations Indian Reserve. My kin are all sitting round with their devices, and one man would begin a rhythm, after which anyone would begin singing a melody to that, and it was simply haunting. The sensation of the music beside you want that, buzzing and droning—the groove and the texture of it bought underneath my pores and skin and it lives there perpetually.

Robertson added:

I really feel that the rating is sudden in some ways and genuine to the center of the story. For me, it’s form of perfection to have the ability to go all the way in which round this massive circle. Beginning at Six Nations when music comes alongside in my life, after which to my historical past with Martin Scorsese and all the films main as much as Killers of the Flower Moon. The truth that we’re attending to do a Western in our personal method, you actually couldn’t have written this. We’re in awe ourselves that our brotherhood has outlasted all the things. We’ve been there, we’ve been by way of it. I’m so pleased with each our friendship and our work. They’ve been a present in my life.