The music of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks was my gateway to the show. I borrowed the official soundtrack from my local library in September 1993 before I even saw a frame of the series. I was obsessed with the haunting score composed by the late Angelo Badalamenti. Today, there is always [Twin Peaks] music in the air in the Miller house. That is one reason why I’m thrilled that long-time Twin Peaks fan and talented author Scott Ryan is writing a new book about the incredible music. Available for pre-order now as it will be published in May 2025.
ALWAYS MUSIC IN THE AIR: THE SOUNDS OF TWIN PEAKS
As soon as Scott Ryan (Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared, Blue Rose Magazine, The Last Days of Letterman) heard the Little Man From Another Place tell Special Agent Dale Cooper, “…and there’s always music in the air,” he wanted to live in that place as well.
There was just one small challenge – most of the music from Twin Peaks was not released when the show first aired in April 1990. There was only one soundtrack from the series, and one from David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
It wasn’t until 2011 until director David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti opened the Twin Peaks Archives and released nearly every track from the show and film as MP3 files. These tracks were never officially released on an album or compact disc. You can find a playlist on YouTube today.
For this new book, Scott interviews band members who performed the songs, music editors and directors from the series, as well as uses archive interviews from the late Badalamenti and singer from the series, Julee Cruise.
This book takes a look at all the music that was in the air from Cruise’s 1989 release Floating into the Night, through all the Twin Peaks soundtracks, the 2011 online releases, as well as the releases from the Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017.
He conducts brand new interviews with Dean Hurley (Composer for The Return, curator of the Twin Peaks Archive), Mark Frost (Creator, Director) Tim Hunter (Director), Lori Eschler (Music Editor), David Slusser (Composer, Music Editor), Kevin Laffey (A&R for Julee Cruise), Duwayne Dunham (Editor, Director), Kinny Landrum, (Keyboards) and Al Regni (Saxophone), and excerpts from Ryan’s 2018 interview with Julee Cruise. Plus quotes from David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti from previously printed interviews throughout the years about the music of Twin Peaks.
Pre-order the book now releasing in May 2025 at BlueRoseMag.com.
Congratulations Scott! I can’t wait to read it!
