Hollywood Records Releases Soundtrack for ‘A Small Light’

Hollywood Records is excited to announce the release of A Small Light (Original Score Album from National Geographic and Disney+ Limited Series) with music by Ariel Marx.

The 30-track album for A Small Light is available today, May 19, on digital platforms. Breaking away from the traditional period-drama symphonic approaches, Marx uses an intimate ensemble of single strings, woodwind, guitar, and percussion in order to connect people to the story. The detail and rawness of these instruments creates a foregrounding for the audience to respond to. The first pieces of music heard are plucky, joyful, and improvisational also depicting a lot of fun in the way instruments are played with a 1930s jazz vibe. Techniques used are minimal and the mixes are exposed to further entice the listener into this historic story.

“In the spirit of the series, the score has a timelessness and honesty to it, as it does not shy away from the rawness and human experience of the war. Amidst the terror, loss and bravery, there was beauty, joy and even humor — the score lives in the every day, both the ordinary and extraordinary,” said composer Ariel Marx.

Based on an inspiring true story, Miep Gies (Bel Powley) was young, carefree and opinionated — at a time when opinions got you killed ― when Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber) asked her to help hide his family from the Nazis during WWII. Told with a modern sensibility, A SMALL LIGHT shakes the cobwebs off history and makes Miep’s story more relevant than ever, forcing audiences to ask themselves what they would have done in Miep’s shoes; and in modern times, asking if they would have the courage to stand up to hatred. Some stood by; Miep stood up.

1. The Bookcase (1:09)
2. A Chicken More Like You (1:21)
3. A Prayer for Peter (1:52)
4. Ransacked (2:13)
5. They’re Not Coming Back (2:43)
6. All The Money in Amsterdam (1:04)
7. A Secret Meeting (3:48)
8. Part of the Resistance (2:07)
9. Miep and Jan (2:54)
10. Please Don’t Go (3:46)
11. She Stays with Me (2:48)
12. The Raid of Opekta (10:08)
13. What Happens Now (1:18)
14. Do This for Her (4:01)
15. The Allies Have Landed (3:17)
16. We Don’t Lie To Each Other (1:29)
17. Miep And Tess (2:51)
18. The Happiest Girl in The World (2:48)
19. Before the War (1:36)
20. I Remember You (3:09)
21. We’re Here (3:22)
22. You Should Have Told Us (1:45)
23. Everything Feels Different (2:29)
24. A Bribe (1:18)
25. What Can Be Saved (8:51)
26. Coming Home (1:32)
27. I Found a Place (1:41)
28. Amsterdam is Liberated (0:57)
29. You Have to Live (2:26)
30. The Annex (2:55)

Will you be picking up the soundtrack for A Small Light?