“…The superb background music by Cristobal Tapia de Veer ranges from eerie childlike electronica to full-scale choral music that sounds as if it’s being sung by a choir being burned at the stake (somebody’s watching, below)…” Read the article here
Cristobal Tapia de Veer returns with soundtrack to AMC / C4’s Humans by AgentJ, United Kingdom
“In a companion piece of sorts to his excellent work on Utopia (across two vinyl albums if you can find them), Tapia de Veer returns with a heavily ‘synth’ laden score (that’s a pun if you know the show…) for AMC/C4 joint venture Humans…” Read the article here
‘Humans’ doubles down on Synths, interview by Mike Ayers, U.S.
“…For “Humans,” the overarching goal is to make the music askew the stereotypical cold, sci-fi sounds usually associated with the genre… The music often creates an eerie ambiance for the human-to-human and human-to-synth interactions.Tapia de Veer’s compositions aim to tap into that aspect of the story. “I don’t really know what to call the sound of the score,” he admits. “I wanted [the] strangeness of being in that situation. It’s so radical and different from than how we feel, to have to deal with these machines. You have to feel a bit alien…” Read the article here
UTOPIA 2 OST, 5/5*, album review by Rob Smedley, United Kingdom
“…No kidding, no messing, and no need to reach for the spoon in order to tell the truth: Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s score for Utopia 2 really is the best TV soundtrack of the year…” Read the full article here
THE BEST SOUNDTRACKS OF 2013 by MOJO staff, United Kingdom
From electro-psychedelic overload to tightly wound sex-club funk and existential Gallic jazz, we salute the top 10 soundtracks of the year. #4 UTOPIA OST – Cristobal Tapia de Veer Dennis Kelly’s apocalyptic conspiracy thriller was one of the TV highlights of early 2013 but if Kelly’s visceral mix of suspense, sex, horror and dark comedy unsettled as many as it beguiled, the eclectic score from Chilean composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer was a unanimous success, a rule-breaking collage of beats, drones and world rhythms, with human bones as flutes and dried rhino turds as percussion. Read the article here