For those who have been questioning who performed that insane flamenco piece named “Furia de Panteras” in Season 6, Episode 9 of Cobra Kai, surprise no extra! It is guitar phenom Tim Henson of Polyphia fame. Henson revealed himself because the participant behind the piece in a brand new YouTube video, the place he predictably crushed it entrance to again.
On the efficiency, Henson briefly commented: “Guitars that I added for a observe referred to as ‘Furia de Panteras’ that is featured in S6 Ep9 of Netflix’s Cobra Kai. Thanks to Zach Robinson and Leo Birenberg for having me!” I assume the revelation is not too stunning looking back, contemplating how very in-line “Furia de Panteras” is with Henson‘s fashion.
For those who’re interested by how the music for Cobra Kai got here collectively, Birenberg commented on it fairly extensively in a not too long ago interview with Guitar World: “The method is fairly comparable for every episode. We sit down with the showrunners and have a gathering – it is referred to as a recognizing session – and we’ll watch episodes. We normally work on two at a time, so we watch them collectively and undergo each scene with the editors and say, ‘Ought to there be music right here? What is the music going to be like?’
“And we simply make a listing: ‘Okay, right here we’d like some emotional stuff, right here now we have an enormous battle sequence, right here we have this, right here we have that.’ Then Zach and I cut up off and begin sketching issues out. We’ll go into our separate studios and begin working.
“As soon as issues are listenable and put collectively we begin buying and selling information, buying and selling mixes and piling on concepts. A extremely good instance can be [the composition] ‘Strike First’, which performs throughout a scene in Season 1, Episode 1, the place Johnny beats up some youngsters in a mini-mart parking zone. In a variety of ways in which was our thesis assertion for the present.”
