Film scoring has often been a family affair in Hollywood, but perhaps no two brothers are in better synch than Mychael and Jeff Danna. With both composers hailing from a musically inclined Canadian clan, Mychael and Jeff have forged singularly impressive careers in Hollywood.

Renowned for putting a world music spin into the soundtrack vocabulary with such ethnically-inclined scores as "Exotica," "The Sweet Hereafter" and "The Ice Storm," Mychael Danna has done just as well lushly orchestral scores for "Ride With the Devil" and "Breach," as well as the indie sound of "Capote" and "Little Miss Sunshine." Younger brother Jeff 's own musical sensibilities have ranged from the ethnic to the experimental and outright terror, with a career that began on such tv shows as "Beverly Hills 90210," and "Kung Fu," before moving onto such eclectic scores as "The Boondock Saints," "O," "The Kid Stays in the Picture" and the horror films "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" and "Silent Hill."

What links all of the Dannas' scores together is a voice of melody and mood, talent that has joined together for the Asian beauty of "Green Dragon" and "Tideland"s imaginative evocation of a little girl's dreamscape. Now Mychael and Jeff Danna take on their biggest musical case with "Fracture." For this tense cat-and-mouse game between killer and prosecutor, the Dannas have come up with a beautifully melodic score that evokes such suspenseful masters as Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann in its ability to evoke sleek, thematic suspense.

Now in this revealing interview, Mychael and Jeff Danna discuss the ties that musically bind two of Hollywood's most evocative composers.