Eric Andre & Prateek Rajagopal (BLARF) | Film Scores for Films that Don’t Exist

Comedian (soon to be film composer?) Eric Andre and composer-producer Prateek Rajagopal (co-writer, executive producer, and the man whose range runs from The Mandalorian to India’s premier death metal export GUTSLIT) bring their new BLARF album “Film Scores for Films That Don’t Exist” to SCORE.

An orchestral fever dream five years in the making, recorded with live players in Los Angeles and Budapest, and the unlikely creative partnership nobody saw coming.

And why Eric Andre is ready to become a film composer (and has beef with John Williams).

How a Berklee-trained upright bassist became one of comedy’s most chaotic forces, and how Prateek — whose credits span Hollywood, Bollywood and immersive media, with contributions to projects by Bobby Krlic, Ludwig Goransson and Joseph Shirley — became the secret weapon who turned five years of Eric’s voice memos into a full orchestral album.

Plus, why BLARF evolved from sample-clearance nightmares to full symphonic chaos, and what does Dead Ballerina actually look like in their heads? Plus, the Ennio Morricone influence that drives the whole project, the death metal detonation hiding inside the track “What’s for Dinner” (guess which one pushed for that), how this album is inspired by Nine Inch Nails’ Ghost, and why Eric destroyed a piano with an axe.

Also, the unaired Eric Andre Show sketch that passed S&P clearance and still got killed (a pro-Al Qaeda country song he sings in full), details on a role in the new Street Fighter film (Jason Momoa had other plans), and all the times Eric was nearly stabbed, shot or beaten up for his gags.

Interview by Kenny Holmes and Matt Schrader at Stonesthrow Studios in Los Angeles. Production coordination by Dan Russell.