BLARF is comedian and actor Eric André’s musical project. Most people know Eric as an actor (in Bad Trip, Happy Gilmore 2, and “The Righteous Gemstones”), and for his surreal, boundary-pushing comedy career, with an eponymous Emmy Award-winning show on Adult Swim and standup shows toured around the world. But few know Eric André as a bona fide musician who attended the prestigious Berklee School of Music, where he specialized in standing bass.
In 2019, Eric launched BLARF with the experimental plunderphonics album Cease & Desist, released in partnership with Stones Throw Records. In its review of Cease & Desist, Pitchfork said: “The frenetic, sample-heavy album from Eric André’s clown alter-ego is hard to take seriously, which is probably the point.”
Now, BLARF brings his disruptive energy to a new body of work that is both an extended comedic bit and entirely, unironically serious: Film Scores For Films That Don’t Exist. Inspired by composers like Ennio Morricone and Vangelis, whose signature sound is as iconic as the films they soundtracked, Eric enlisted a full orchestra to bring his compositions to life, recording in Los Angeles and Budapest.
BLARF brings together multiple facets of Eric’s career to date: public figure, serious musician, actor and comedian, and outsider artist. Landing somewhere between the symphony and the moshpit, Film Scores for Films that Don’t Exist is a project only BLARF could make. Film Scores... was executive and record produced by Prateek Rajagopal, a composer for film and TV whose credits include The Mandalorian.
Director Lance Bangs, known for his work on Jackass and Portlandia, documented the entire recording process.
