New Elvis music remixes launched forward of Baz Luhrmann’s new live performance movie | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Following his Elvis film biopic, Baz Luhrmann has had unprecedented entry to unseen footage and audio from Seventies Elvis Presley live performance films, That’s The Way It Is and Elvis on Tour.

And now the acclaimed director has put collectively a brand-new live performance documentary that hits IMAX and cinemas later this month.

Not solely that, however he’s as soon as once more teamed up with composer Jamieson Shaw, who put collectively the Toxic Las Vegas remix of Viva Las Vegas and Britney Spears’ basic observe for the biopic soundtrack.

This time round, he’s labored on a few groovy new singles, which you’ll be able to take heed to under.

The first is Wearin’ That Night Life Look, which mixes components of 4 completely different Elvis songs into what he and Baz name a “DNA track”. Also, launched in the present day is a remix of the gospel basic Oh Happy Day.

Baz shared on Instagram: “When we have a sequence in the film where Elvis is speaking about his musical heart, it’s born from Gospel and from country. When recovering the sound, we were able to have some wonderful sequences with the incredible Sweet Inspirations. In the short sequence for Oh Happy Day, the archival recording quality wasn’t strong enough.”

Baz continued: “So we were lucky to have Shannon Sanders and his incredible group of singers down in Nashville, who sang in the film ELVIS, create a somewhat musical memory flashback of Elvis in his early days sneaking in and watching the Gospel Choir at East Trigg. A heartfelt shoutout for all of the wonderful creative support to Shannon and the choir for this reimagined version of Oh Happy Day.”

Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is in IMAX from February 20 and cinemas from February 27.