News stories, articles and updates from composer
Simon Wilkinson. All my latest music projects, releases and placements are listed here. You'll also find occasional articles, news stories and general things that catch my ear in the world of documentary music and film soundtracks. You can search for specific articles on the right and if you want to follow my updates just point your RSS feed
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I was casually watching this documentary last night about one of my favourite musicians and producers
Daniel Lanois when I heard some of my music crop up in places in the background. I had no idea it had been used in it but I love it when that happens (I think it’s only happened once or twice before!)
My dramatic orchestral trailer music track Excelsior is featured in the new Marvel trailer for Realm Of Champions.
Excelsior is also available to license for your own films, trailers and videos from the following link or contact me for more info:
http://www.thebluemask.com/excelsior
Thanks to the always supportive John Shanahan over at the awesome and ethereal Hypnagogue Podcast for featuring the title track from my ambient album Stateless on his latest podcast.
Be sure to check out episode 306 and all the others here:
https://hypnagoguepodcast.com/2020/06/18/episode-306/
Always a great honour to have some of my music featured on the excellent Hypnagogue Podcast. This time it’s the track Continuum from my ambient space music album Merging The Infinite. Many thanks once again to John Shanahan for his continued support of my music alongside some other great musicians in the ambient genre.
Check out this episode and all the others here:
https://hypnagoguepodcast.com/2020/05/21/episode-302/
Here’s a video for the track A Softer Indication from my latest atmospheric ambient space music album Hegira. The album is a 3 track album (over 80 minutes) of atmospheric ambient soundscapes and cinematic drone music.
You can either get the album here on my website or over at Bandcamp as a name-your-price download:
https://thebluemask.bandcamp.com/album/hegira
It’s also available to stream on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal etc.
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My new ambient album Hegira is now available to download from this website. Following on from 2018’s Stateless it’s my fifth album of longform ambient space music, full of atmospheric soundscapes and textures. It’s also available on Bandcamp and should be on all other streaming services within a few days.
Some of my music was used recently at the Singapore Night Festival as part of a dome projection mapping installation. It looks amazing and would have been amazing to see in person – maybe next time!
Track: The Divine Realm from Cryosleep Dreams
Thanks again to John Shanahan at Hypnagogue Podcast for featuring my track Vapour Mining from my latest ambient space music album Stateless on Episode 214 of his excellent ambient and electronic music podcast. This is the second time John has featured my music on Hypnagogue and I’m honoured once again to be featured alongside some great musicians in the ambient genre.
Check out this episode and all the others here:
https://hypnagoguepodcast.com/2018/07/26/episode-241/
Music from my latest ambient space music album Stateless is being featured in a new radio show on One World Music Radio. My track Glidepath is being played on episode 1 of In The Stream, a new show focusing on long-form music tracks (at least 10 minutes long) including music from Steve Roach, Forrest Fang and many other great artists.
If you can’t tune in live, the show is archived on Mixcloud at the following link:
https://www.mixcloud.com/OWM/in-the-stream-1/
Very nice to read some positive words about my music from Darrell Burgan over on the Blue Water Drift Dive website:
“This is gorgeous ambient space music, perfectly produced, and simply exquisite. Words often used but, in this case, wholly justified.”
Thank you Darrell!
https://bluewaterdriftdive.com/2018/07/16/discovering-simon-wilkinson/