Lele Marchitelli's Original Score for Paolo Sorrentino's HBO Series 'The New Pope' Available Now!

Available everywhere now, the album features score music written by Marchitelli for Paolo Sorrentino’s nine-episode original series starring Jude Law and John Malkovich. Also included on the album is the show’s theme song from Sofi Tukker and Charlie Barker, a special new edit of Afterhours’ “Voglio Una Pelle Splendida” recorded specifically for the show, Recondite & Henrik Schwarz’ techno classic “Motion” and more – full tracklist below. Created by Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (Youth, The Great Beauty) and his follow-up to 2016’s The Young Pope, The New Pope premiered on HBO in January and airs on Monday nights at 9:00pm ET.

Of the soundtrack, composer LELE MARCHITELLI says, “In soundtracks for cinema and TV, I think it’s not so much the music you use but how you use it. We could use the term ‘counterintuitive’ to describe certain musical choices that take an unexpected direction compared to what the audience expects. Paolo Sorrentino belongs to a set of directors who share this approach; his musical choices, regarding both pre-existing music and original scores, are extremely well thought out and incongruous with respect to the editing of the scenes. If the music says one thing and the dialogues, the acting or the scene in general don’t, it means it has achieved its goal: completing the director’s thinking.”

Track Listing:

1. Good Time Girl – Sofi Tukker feat. Charlie Barker (3:06)

2. Change the rule (1:18)

3. Bed Time (0:56)

4. Adios Amigo – KILNAMANA (3:50)

5. Higher Self – Karmic (3:47)

6. Forgive me (1:57)

7. L’Orchestrina – Paolo Conte (3:21)

8. Bee Dance – Agnes Obel (2:39)

9. In The Room (0:30)

10. Questo Corpo – La rappresentante di lista (3:11)

11. Night Running – Millie Turner (3:31)

12. Scarecrow – Be Svendsen & AYAWAKE (3:27)

13. The Box (1:44)

14. The Beauty (1:24)

15. Show Talked Windows – Sumie (3:26)

16. Time – Angelo De Augustine (3:55)

17. Come and See – Lean Year (3:39)

18. Unexpected Pope (2:11)

19. Lisette (1:51)

20. Semaphore – Flock of Dimes (3:46)

21. Mortified (2:31)

22. Curlews – Grasscut (4:39)

23. Once Again (1:47)

24. Motion – Recondite & Henrik Schwarz (6:07)

25. Sir John (1:15)

26. Bluebird – Lane 8 & Anderholm (5:26)

27. Voglio Una Pelle Splendida (The New Pope Version) – Afterhours feat. Samuel (3:25)