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It's Time For More Mica Levi In Your Life

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A brief musical history of the discordant Mica Levi.. One of our favourite musicians, 28-year-old Brit Mica Levi (Micachu), was just nominated for a BAFTA for her original soundtrack to Jonathan Glazer's eerie sci-fi independent thriller Under The Skin. Mica's already taken home Best Composer at the European Film Awards, with Oscar nominations approaching, hers is on a short list of original scores Hollywood is buzzing about. The BAFTA's will see Mica in competition with Antonio Sanchez for Birdman, Alexandre Desplate for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar, and Jóhann Jóhannsson for The Theory of Everything. It's a well-deserved tip of the hat to Mica, whose recently started to show off her composition chops: up until recently, Mica's mostly known in music circles for the experimental, dismantled pop she makes in her band Micachu And The Shapes, however she's classically trained. Mica generally keeps her career / work pretty low key, and isn't big on hype, so there's