Neon City is a new atmospheric ambient instrumental music track featuring warm organic washes of sound, slow and deep hypnotic bass, sparse percussive beats and lush Blade Runner style synths.

Watch the promo video on the right featuring stunning photography of dark dramatic cityscapes and atmospheric night time scenes.

The track is available to download as an mp3 and can also be licensed at low cost for use in your films, documentaries, videos, promos and trailers from:

www.thebluemask.com/shop/neon-city

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My 3rd collection of royalty free music, ‘Royalty Free Vol.3: Animated Antics‘  has now been expanded by a further 11 tracks to a total of 18 tracks for just £39.99 (including a license to use the music in an unlimited number of films and documentaries with no further costs).

This collection focuses on quirky plucked orchestral arrangements that would be ideal for science, nature or travel documentaries but would also work well for films, commercials and other types of documentary.

The music ranges from light, lively and upbeat tracks to darker and more atmospheric fairytale-like pieces and the instrumentation includes plucked and pizzicato cellos, violins and double bass as well as marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, crotales and more.

You can hear short examples of all the tracks in the audio clip above or go to the full product page in the shop where you can hear full length previews of all the tracks and buy the collection as an instant download via Paypal or credit card:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol3-animated-antics/

My track Scorpio has been licensed for use in a beautiful time lapse video called ‘Sub Zero‘ by Randy Halverson at dakotalapse.com

Scorpio is a dramatic instrumental  music track which can be licensed for commercial or non-commercial use in your own films and videos, or just to buy as an mp3 download from my store at the link below.

It’s also available to buy from iTunes (check out the links below) or feel free to get in touch if you have any licensing questions here.

Get the mp3 from my shop:
http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/scorpio/

Get the mp3 from iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=337154676&s=143444

Edit: You can also now buy an HD copy of Randy’s Sub Zero video from his download store here.

Here’s a new promo video clip for my music track Snowhorses set to footage of horses in the snow. The track features acoustic guitar, bass, piano, strings and drums and is available to license in your film and video projects from my shop:

www.thebluemask.com/shop/snowhorses

The video footage is used with kind permission from Randall Barr at Cinequine who provide beautiful horse photography and video:

www.cinequine.com

Another one of my music tracks has been used in basketball giants the L.A. Lakers’ opening intro video, played before their games at their home stadium, the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

This time, my orchestral action track ‘Excelsior‘ was used in the video to the right which was projected onto the huge screens among the crowds before the game.

You can get the orchestral track ‘Excelsior‘ to download or license for use in your own projects from my mp3 shop here:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/excelsior/

Thanks to Peter Bailey at Sideshow Studios (www.sideshow-studios.com) who wrote, directed and edited all the graphics and video for the promo.

These sort of end of year roundups are inevitable so just to add to the noise, here’s a handful of some of my favourite tracks & performances from this year. Not in any order but just a few things off the top of my head that I’ve liked in 2010. Happy New Year and hopefully will be making more music in 2011!

Gorillaz: Stylo

Hans Zimmer Feat. Johnny Marr: Mombasa (Inception OST)

Hybrid: Disappear Here

Massive Attack: Paradise Circus

Arcade Fire: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

The short film ‘First Darkness‘ by artists Wyllie O’Hagan, that I wrote the music for, has won two awards at the Monaco Film Festival: Best Art Short Film and Best Original Music Short Film. Pictured right are Denise and Clare at the awards ceremony in Monaco with Sir David Jason.

This is great news and my big congratulations to Clare & Denise!

You can find out more about Clare & Denise’s film at the First Darkness Facebook page here.

Click here for more details on the Angel Film Awards and here for the full list of 2010 winners – I’m listed under the Short Film section.

Here’s the promo video for my latest royalty-free music collection: Royalty-Free Film & Documentary Music Vol. 5: Cinematic Piano. The music collection contains 13 tracks (48 minutes) of dark cinematic and atmospheric royalty free piano music ideal for film and documentary makers.

The music styles range from gentle and melancholy to dark, eerie and dramatic along with some moments of light and reflection. You can buy the music collection as an instant wav or mp3 download from the shop here:

Royalty-Free Film & Documentary Music Vol. 5: Cinematic Piano

The 5th volume of my low cost royalty-free music collections for film & documentary makers is now available from my online shop.

Royalty-Free Film & Documentary Music Vol.5: Cinematic Piano contains 13 tracks (48 minutes) of atmospheric, melancholy, tense, dark (and some lighter!) piano tracks aimed at film and documentary makers looking for suitable music to use in their films at one low price, and with no additional licensing worries.

You can find out more, as well as hear full previews of all tracks and instantly buy and download the music as either an mp3 or wav download in the shop:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol-5-cinematic-piano/

My orchestral action track ‘Titan‘ was used in last night’s opening ceremony for basketball team the L.A. Lakers at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Among the crowd were Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington and David Beckham.

The music introduced the Lakers in this introductory video clip just before they played their first game of the NBA season against the Houston Rockets (the Lakers won 112-110; maybe the music gave them the edge ;)

Update: You can also now view the original full quality intro clip to the right which was projected onto the huge screens among the crowds at the Staples Center.

Thanks to Peter Bailey at Sideshow Studios (www.sideshow-studios.com) who wrote, directed and edited all the graphics and video for the promo.

You can get the full orchestral track ‘Titan‘ to download or license for use in your own projects from my mp3 shop here:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/titan