Here’s a little track I’ve written for Impact Soundworks. I’ve been beta testing their new dombra library for the last couple of weeks. If you don’t know what a dombra is, it’s a long-necked lute style instrument commonly found in Central Asia, especially Kazakhstan. For this demo track, I decided to take quite an unusual [...]
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Last week I had the very great pleasure of attending an evening with Harry Gregson-Williams at the Barbican. I have only been composing film music for about two years, although I had always occasionally dallied with various dance music genres (trance, breakbeat, psy) before that. It would be fair to say that the only reason [...]
View Post barbican, harry gregson-williams, soundtrack, talkThe Ocean Sky

I was lucky enough to win a little competition the other week. John-Elleson Hartley, who owns Musiklab studio, occasionally runs a little competition to get a track mastered for free. I like John’s work a lot, so was happy to enter the competition, which essentially meant sharing it across social media. That can be quite [...]
View Post cinematic, mastering, musiklab, trailer, videoOmnisphere Horizon

A week ago I released a brand new soundset on my sound design sister sister theunfinished.co.uk. This being my first release of the year, I decided to do things a little differently. I did some slightly more targeted promo on audio production forums for one thing, but the main addition to my ‘marketing mix’ (to [...]
View Post horizon, omnisphere, presets, soundset, youtubeUnearthed Main Title

I am finally able to reveal the Main Theme music I have written for the new adventure game, Unearthed. The game, which is scheduled for release soon, is an Arabic adventure in the same vein as the Tomb Raider and Uncharted series. The game developers are based in the Middle East, which is pretty rare [...]
View Post arabic, game audio, ost, unearthedRIP Reason Lahalla

I received some very sad news yesterday about a long-time friend and collaborator, Reason Lahalla. Sadly, last week, he passed away in hospital. He was only 33. Reason was one of the first people I made friends with on KVR. He dug my music and I enjoyed his acerbic wit. He pulled no punches, but [...]
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