Q: Any news or progress on a soundtrack? Do you have soundtrack rights for all the versions of the theme and the
montage songs? [Nigel Ray Williamson]A: No specific news that I can share, but I am confident that there will be a soundtrack release for The Wire along with Season 5. We do not own the rights for the theme and montage songs. When we license a song for use in the show, it does not include the right to use the song on a soundtrack. That's a separate deal that has to be made for the soundtrack specifically.
Q: Is there a particular song or songs you promoted that you felt were memorable in the show? [John from Santa Barbara]
A: One of my favorites that I found for the show is "Efuge, Efuge" by Stelios Kazantzidis, which plays in Season 2 as Frank walks to his doom. I found the song on a compilation CD in a Greek record store in Astoria, where I spent a weekend hunting through record bins with my friend Persephone Karakosta. Kazantzidis is considered "the voice of the Greek Diaspora" and wrote many beautiful ballads about the immigrant experience and exile. George Pelecanos also suggested some great songs for that sequence, but we ended up using "Efuge, Efuge," which was also quite challenging to secure the rights for.
Q: Are you pushing any songs for inclusion in season 5? [Kaela]
A: No, absolutely not! First of all, I merely "suggest," I don't push! Second, the episodes aren't even written yet. We pick 90% of the music after the episode is shot, as it's being edited, and final choices are still being made up to the very last minute. Occasionally a song will be written into the script ("Shaft" in the opening of Season 3 is an example), but that rarely happens. Also, we want a lot of the music to be very current, so I would guess a significant portion of the music that will appear in Season 5 hasn't been released yet.
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