I Heard You Paint Houses

When Martin Scorsese envisioned the dramatic music for his upcoming film, The Irishman, he heard the harmonica as the lead instrument. His longtime music collaborator Robbie Robinson then tapped Frederic Yonnet and… A Star is Born. Oh, wait, wrong movie. That was last year.

The Irishman, Scorsese’s highly anticipated gangster film, includes two sinuous songs recorded by none other than Yonnet. “Cool, sexy and sneaky,” Yonnet says, “is the vibe Robinson wanted me to convey for several scenes.”  We’re anxious to hear how that sounds.

The Irishman, which stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, is Netflix’s block-buster film screened at the Toronto Film Festival and is slated to hit theaters November 27, 2019. With a production budget estimated as high as $200 million–one of Netflix’s most expensive projects to date–Scorsese regards The Irishman as the most risky and expensive project of his career.

Additionally Yonnet can be heard on producer Robbie Robinson’s latest project, “Sinematic.” Over the years, Robertson has kept up a steady collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, and the idea for Sinematic was laid while he was working on the score for Scorsese’s upcoming film, The Irishman.

“I was working on music for The Irishman and working on the documentary, and these things were bleeding into each other,” Robertson said in a statement. “I could see a path. Ideas for songs about haunting and violent and beautiful things were swirling together like a movie. You follow that sound and it all starts to take shape right in front of your ears.”