[Thor Joachim Haga]

Trond Bjerknes conjures up a beautiful score for this 2014 children’s film (a pretty decent film, too). Broad and atmospheric, largely electronic, to capture the arctic environment. Heck, it would fit perfectly in the “Film music for freezing cold?” thread too.

Bjerknes was actually the first film composer I met. A lunch in the early 2000s, as I was working on my master thesis, and I needed to chat with him about a few things. We never met again, but have stayed in occasional touch via e-mail. He’s a talented guy who broke through while working for director Harald Zwart in the late 90s (who would later go to Hollywood for moderate success, although without his old composer comrade). But in the last decade or so, the assignments have been few, alas.