Available Now! Word Is Bond Soundtrack

In May of 2017, we began shooting Word Is Bond: a story seeded in my wife Alex’s childhood which quickly germinated into a script and production upon our move from the Bay Area to Los Angeles. While she and I have worked on creative film projects together going back to our first collaboration and screening in Chicago, through her videos for Boy King Islands & Caural, this is truly her directorial debut - and my most involved role as a producer. Through the film’s editing process and an ensuing Kickstarter to retroactively cover its production costs and take us through post, we wrapped in August of 2018 after I finished the following piece of the puzzle: the film’s soundtrack.

Each of the songs composed for the film - with few exceptions - were very short vignettes. After we began submitting the film to festivals for the 2019 circuit, I revisited these pieces and in effect constructed the imaginary “full songs” excerpted for the film. Two of them were combined and expounded upon to create Boombox Mask, a song premiered on XLR8R, Igloo Magazine and Bandcamp Weekly.

Listen below, and visit Bandcamp to purchase the full soundtrack!

Pre-order Now Available: https://caural.bandcamp.com/album/word-is-bond-original-soundtrack The first new work by veteran beat maker Caural in nearly ten years is the original soundtrack for the film he co-produced, Word Is Bond, which recently premiered at Outfest Fusion in Los Angeles in March 2019. It’s a return to and reinvention of the style he grew across a critically acclaimed catalog on Chocolate Industries, Mush, and other foundation builders for the modern day “beat scene”. Eschewing genre in favor of sound, while celebrating Hip Hop as the blueprint of its spirit, this collection of new material is an extrapolation of the musical vignettes in the film that bring its characters to life. Word Is Bond is the debut film of writer and director, Alex Mastoon (Caural’s wife). Rewinding to the twilight of rap’s golden era, this evocative and music-driven short is less a narrative than a poetic meditation - a visual verse - unveiling the struggle shared by so many in the LGBTQ community afraid to be themselves: a reality largely ignored - especially in the rap world. Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka9vbaH1G_w Follow along here: www.instagram.com/cauralofficial www.facebook.com/cauralofficial All songs written and produced by Caural (Zachary Ian Mastoon, BMI) Published by He Heard Himself Say, BMI Design by Caural Handstyles by Al Tamper: https://www.tampertron.com/ Original Photo by Jaan Kristjan Utno: https://jkutno.myportfolio.com/ Mastered by Steve Kitch: https://www.audiomaster.co.uk/