Whether working with his project Ensemble or under his own name, French multi-instrumentalist/composer Olivier Alary makes music with a filmic complexity. He released several albums as Ensemble, including 2000's Sketch Proposals on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label and a self-titled 2006 album featuring Chan Marshall, Lou Barlow, and Germany's Babelsberg Orchestra. After 2011's Excerpts, the composer's focus moved increasingly to soundtrack work. This included the scores to Yung Chang's documentaries Up the Yangtze (2007) and China Heavyweight (2012), as well as music for fiction films such as Matias Meyer's Yo (2014) and Maxime Giroux's Felix and Meira (2014). ~ Heather Phares