THE LOST CITY Original Motion Picture Soundtrack By Pinar Toprak Is An Exhilarating Score Filled With Old-Style Hollywood Adventure

One of my favorite composers who has made a musical splash on the film score scene is Pinar Toprak. Being a collector of scores, whether it be TV of film, I’m a huge fan of hers and she has quickly become an active and reinvigorating composer in Hollywood. Toprak wrote the fantastic scores for DC’s Stargirl on The CW, and SY-FY’s Superman prequel series Krypton.

Today, Variety reported: “on Sunday she (Toprak) will be onstage at the Dolby conducting the Oscar orchestra for Billie Eilish’s performance of “No Time to Die.” Details about Sunday are otherwise under wraps. It’s said to be a new arrangement of the Oscar-nominated James Bond theme, and Eilish’s co-writer and sibling Finneas is expected to be onstage too. Toprak couldn’t comment.“

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La-La Land Records and Paramount Music has released Toprak’s original motion picture score to the Paramount Pictures action adventure comedy THE LOST CITY, starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Danielle Radcliffe, and Brad Pitt. 

The score soundtrack is available digitally from Paramount Music starting today (March 25, 2022), and on Limited Edition CD from www.lalalandrecords.com starting March 29, 2002. 

Also featured on the soundtrack are “Danza De Dos,” “Bolerito De La Isla,” and “Lágrimas Sin Fin (featuring lyrics by David Aguilar),” three new tracks written for the film by Grammy and Latin Grammy winning composer, arranger, producer and performer, Cheche Alara. 

In THE LOST CITY, brilliant, but reclusive author Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) has spent her career writing about exotic places in her popular romance-adventure novels featuring handsome cover model Alan (Channing Tatum), who has dedicated his life to embodying the hero character, “Dash.” While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes that she can lead him to the ancient lost city’s treasure from her latest story. Wanting to prove that he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her. Thrust into an epic jungle adventure, the unlikely pair will need to work together to survive the elements and find the ancient treasure before it’s lost forever. 

The film’s exhilarating original score bursts with full-throttle adventurous fun, action and romance. “Writing this score brought me back to why I fell in love with film scores in the first place,” says renowned composer Pinar Toprak, “The adventure, the romance, and most importantly the FUN. It’s been a pure joy paying homage to those classic adventure films I loved growing up while giving it my own contemporary signature. It’s my sincerest hope that this score, like the ones that inspired me as a child, will withstand the test of time as well.” 

Stream or Purchase: https://music.paramount.com/albums/the-lost-city/

TRACK LIST

1 – The Lost City of D
2 – Pinot Grigio on Ice
3 – Book Tour
4 – The Only Clue
5 – You’re Safe Now
6 – The Island
7 – Ruins Revealed
8 – People Eat Cake
9 – Gotta Go Up
10 – Highly Trained & Very Dangerous
11 – Contoured Scenery
12 – Hands out, Butt to Butt
13 – Alan Gets a Moped 
14 – Hammock Extraction
15 – Set Your World on Fire
16 – It’s Not a Metaphor
17 – Watch Your Step
18 – The Tomb
19 – Fairfax Escapes
20 – Dulcius Ex Asperis
21 – Got Your Back
22 – A New Adventure Beginning
23 – The Final Countdown
24 – Danza De Dos
25 – Bolerito De La Isla
26 – Lagrimas Sin Fin (feat. Cecilia Noel)
27 – Stage Mishap (Bonus Track)
28 – Book Trailer (Bonus Track)

Pinar Toprak is one of the most refreshing voices in music composition today with a diverse body of work spanning across film, television, and video games. She has composed for major superhero sagas like Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel, DC’s Stargirl, and SY-FY’s Krypton. She also scored HBO’s six-part docuseries McMillions, which earned her a 2020 Primetime Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score).” In addition, she has written music for Epic Game’s massively popular online video game, Fortnite. Away from the big screen, Toprak crafted the new main theme for Walt Disney World’s iconic EPCOT theme park, scored the celebrated 2021 Walt Disney Animation short Us Again, and wrote music for Christina Aguilera’s 2019 Xperience show in Las Vegas. Toprak was the recipient of the 2019 ASCAP Shirley Walker Award and also won the 2019 IFMCA (International Film Music Critics Association) Award for “Best Original Score for a Documentary Film” for her score to The Tides of Fate.

She had previously won two other IFMCA Awards for her work on The Wind Gods and The Lightkeepers which was on the Academy Award shortlist for “Best Original Score” in 2011. Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Toprak began her classical music education at the age of five. After studying composition and multiple instruments at the conservatory she moved to Chicago to study jazz, before continuing on to Boston for a degree in film scoring from Berklee College of Music. She then moved to Los Angeles and earned a master’s degree at CSUN in composition at age 22.