Travis Scott, James Blake and Ludwig Göransson have shared ‘When I’m Home’, the end credits song from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – listen below.
The track was released yesterday (July 17) as the closing song on Göransson’s original soundtrack for the film, which also arrived in cinemas on Friday.
The atmospheric five-minute track sees Scott reference Homer’s original epic poem, while Blake provides the song’s ghostly chorus, and Göransson – who composed the wider score for the movie – steers the track with sparse production that gradually builds in intensity.
Scott also appears in The Odyssey, playing a bard who recounts tales from the Trojan War near the beginning of the film and briefly returns later.
Explaining his decision to cast the rapper, Nolan recently said that he wanted to acknowledge the connection between Homer’s work and modern musical storytelling.
“I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap,” the director said.
‘When I’m Home’ also lists Nolan among its writers, alongside Scott, Blake and Göransson.
It is not Scott’s first collaboration with the filmmaker – he previously recorded ‘The Plan’ for Nolan’s 2020 movie Tenet, which was also produced by Göransson.
The Odyssey is an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek poem, with Matt Damon starring as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca who attempts to return home following the Trojan War. Tom Holland plays his son Telemachus, while Anne Hathaway stars as his wife Penelope. The cast also includes Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron and Samantha Morton.
In a five-star review of the film, NME described it as “a big story made impossibly huge”, adding that it “might just be the director’s most accomplished film to date”.
“Add in Ludwig Göransson’s visceral score and The Odyssey lands harder than even 3,000 years of cultural heft have a right to,” it continued.
In other Scott news, John Summit recently accused the rapper of “forcing” his way onto the stage and interrupting his set at Lilly’s Club Monte Carlo in Monaco after allegedly arriving late.
Footage showed Scott climbing over Summit’s decks and beginning his own performance, with the DJ later saying his show had been shut down due to “another artist showing up late and forcing his way onto the stage”. Scott has not publicly commented on the incident.
