Hello all, Adem here

Toward the end of last year I was overjoyed to receive a call from comic genius Armando Iannucci. He is responsible for a lot of my favourite funny stuff; if you don't recognise the name, search it - you'll certainly recognise the work. I was invited to score his cinematic debut 'In The Loop'. Those of you who have seen 'The Thick of It', from which it comes will know what to expect - excellent writing, outstanding semi-improvised performances and a hand-held style all lit up by the most spectacular, baroque swearing; It's like that, but more. Naturally, I said 'yes, please'.

The film features Iannucci's idiosyncratic sharp sardonic wit and unwavering eye for harsh detail brought to bear on the world of politics today coupled with incredible performances, both individual and collective and a riproaring pace. The script is utterly hilarious, looking at how people become pawns in Politics, no matter their ideals, looking at helplessness and harshness of the cogs of the wheels of power. Once the disbelief and laughter dies down an uncanny and uneasy feeling creeps up that it may be very close to How It Happens

For the music, I settled on a minimalist (instrumental) score, featuring mallet instruments and string quartet. I didn't want there to be too much as I felt it would interfere with the hand-held documentary style taken. We placed the music to help propel and underline - the blazing script did so much of the work. String parts were played by the fantastic Elysian Quartet, who really brought the music to life and invested it with their characteristic effects and ideas; I played the other instruments (mainly vibraphone, metallaphone, glockenspiel and piano).

Here are a couple of tasters (there's more out there). There's a bit of swearing:

exclusive clip
official trailer

In The Loop is released in the UK on 17th April. It is absolutely brilliant and I couldn't recommend it more.