Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys’ chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear
ave you ever thought what walking into a sweaty, dusty club on one of Star Wars’ desert planets would sound like? About what plays on the radios in the casinos on those Las Vegas-like planets? What do the merchants and miscreants of Tatooine listen to when they’re not working the moisture farms or fending off Tusken Raiders? Pondering questions like that has been Cody Matthew Johnson’s life for the past few years.
, and what she listens to, but more about the underworld she is existing in during the story – it’s not only the music enjoyed by the underworld subculture of Toshara, Akiva, Tatooine and Kijimi, but also the musicThe result is a full album’s worth of tracks that clocks in at over an hour, and it represents more than 10% of all diegetic – or “in-universe” – Star Wars music ever made.
To generate the spirit of collaboration and “we’re all in it together” attitude at the centre of so much alternative, underground music, Matthew Johnson needed a band. “It’s the joy of my life to be able to collaborate with my friends,” he explains. “It was a dream gig for every person I had the pleasure of bringing on to the project: musicians, engineers, instrument designers and more.
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