Another video in my series of movie trailers rescored with my own music soundtrack (for promo use only). This clip is from the cult 2004 Japanese futuristic fantasy movie Casshern written and directed by Kazuaki Kiriya.

The movie itself is a beautiful stylised mix of stunning CG and live action and is well worth tracking down a copy of. I got hold of the beautifully packaged 3 disc box set a few years ago and I’ve been wanting to do a track for the trailer for a while.

Similar in style to the orchestral music of Hans Zimmer, the track is a new orchestral action piece I’ve written called Titan which is available from my mp3 music shop to download or license for use in your own film or trailer:

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

New promo video clip for my dark atmospheric ambient space music Through The Ergosphere.

The track is a dark and slowly evolving seven minute atmospheric ambient soundscape set to a film of ethereal dark space visuals and other worldly imagery from the European Space Agency Hubble Telescope project.

Quietly dramatic, the music is ideal textural underscore for films and documentaries or simply for fans of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, Brian Eno’s ambient music, Biosphere, Stars Of The Lid and other similar ambient artists and drones. Put it on headphones and drift away to dark and atmospheric sci-fi landscapes.

Get the full mp3 track or license the music for your film or documentary from my music shop:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/through-the-ergosphere/

After being used last year in trailers for season 7 of Fox’s 24, my music is being used again in trailers for season 8! Check out the promo clip here for season 8 / episode 19 of the hit show starring Kiefer Sutherland featuring my music.

Zahara is a dramatic instrumental orchestral action track that is also available to license for use in other commercials, trailers and TV advertising spots. The track can be instantly licensed for non-broadcast purposes or contact me directly for broadcast licensing queries.

The full length music track is just under two and a half minutes long in total. More information about the track as well as a full length preview is available in my online mp3 music download shop here:

Download Zahara mp3 / license from my mp3 music shop

After my previous quickie promo video for my orchestral action track ‘Attack Of The Machines’, I decided to try and produce something a bit better looking. As I’ve said before, I’m no video editor; I usually leave that part to my clients and focus on the music but I thought it’d be good to try and improve my video editing skills. So I bought a copy of Sony Vegas and with the help of some trailer footage from Terminator Salvation, I’ve recut the video to try and fit with my music. It’s not perfect but hopefully my video editing skills are slowly improving.

As usual, download and license the orchestral action track for your films & trailers from my music shop:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/attack-of-the-machines/

Thanks to the joys of DVD boxsets, I’ve been catching up on loads of great TV shows over the last six months: Battlestar Galactica, House, The Wire. They’re all amazing shows, the cream of modern TV, but they all make me realise I still haven’t seen anything to top what is (for me) the greatest TV series of all time.

I watched The Sopranos all the way through during its run on TV, and then watched the whole thing again when it came out on DVD. Apart from having the sharpest writing and dialogue of any TV show I’ve ever seen, one thing that really stuck out through the whole series was the use of music.

There’s no score, just songs, but they fit so perfectly it’s hard to imagine anything else working as well. The music supervisors did such an amazing job, some of the tracks feel like they were written just for the show.  Some of the music highlights for me were:

I could only find a few examples on Youtube, but the John Cooper Clarke track is one of my favourites. Sublime. Ever since watching the show, I started wondering what songs I might have picked if I’d had the dream job of The Sopranos music supervisor. These would be a few on my list:

Man, I miss that show…

Here’s a brief excerpt from artists Wyllie O’Hagan’s short film: Still Life: London featuring my piano music soundtrack Leaving Paris.

Wyllie O’Hagan: “The moving image artwork, explores a quest for stillness in a hectic world. Two screens project moving images with piano soundtrack. One screen shows a personal collection of still, quiet life objects, beautifully considered and composed, revealed at a reflective pace. The second screen shows abstract energetic lines wildly drawn with light.”

Still Life: London has already had highly praised screenings at Toronto and London film festivals and has now been accepted in two more international festivals in Mexico and Melbourne:

Mexico’s Expresión en Corto International Film Festival
Melbourne International Animation Festival

More info:

Leaving Paris (buy the instrumental piano music from my mp3 shop):
http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/leaving-paris/

Wyllie O’Hagan:
http://www.wyllieohagan.com/

For promo purposes only: this is the film trailer for the Watchmen movie rescored with an instrumental music track of mine called Scorpio.

Scorpio is a dramatic action track featuring piano, heavy drums and hammered dulcimer and is available to buy as an mp3 download direct from my shop using Paypal, or from iTunes or eMusic:

Buy Scorpio from thebluemask.com

Buy Scorpio (iTunes)

Buy Scorpio (eMusic)

For promo purposes only: this is a test demo advert for the Audi S8 using my instrumental music track Heretik as the background music score.

Heretik is a 30 second track featuring electric guitar and drums that can be bought as an mp3 or licensed for your advert or trailer directly from my music shop:

Buy Heretik from thebluemask.com

Following on from my last video promo clip (Vol.1), here’s some atmospheric time-lapse footage to watch while listening to the music in my Royalty-Free Music Collection Vol.2 for film & documentary makers.

This second collection of royalty free music for film and documentary makers contains 45 minutes of dark dramatic piano and atmospheric ambient royalty free music soundtracks plus a license to use the music in an unlimited number of your own films and documentaries.

You can hear full previews of all the tracks and read full details of the music collection in my shop:

Royalty Free Film & Documentary Music Vol.2: More piano & Atmospheric Beds

For promo purposes only: here’s another ‘rescored’ video, this time for the trailer of John Carpenter’s classic 1982 movie The Thing, rescored with my instrumental music track Outpost 31.

John Carpenter has always been one of my favourite directors (and composers). His soundtracks to films like Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 are iconic genre soundtracks and inseparable from the films.

Outpost 31 was written as a sort of imaginary alternative soundtrack to The Thing -- I always had the epic icy visuals and claustrophobic imagery of the film in the back of my mind when writing this track. You can hear the full preview and buy the track from my mp3 music download shop here:

Buy Outpost 31 mp3 from thebluemask.com shop