Thank you for the Music
A few friends have read the Wonder and created art and music for it - pop over to the Facebook page...
https://www.facebook.com/thewonderseries
to check out the artwork.
There's also the original music for the trailer and another piece based on the Siege of Maisy by a fan (I'll try putting that up on YouTube soon).
However, I've been having a lovely chat with Gary Sundell on the Dragons and Jetpacks group about "What are you currently listening to?" and we've been sharing our love of soundtracks.
I only write to soundtracks but try to shy away from the obvious so that I don't end up writing about a smuggler and princess escaping an Imperial fleet in an asteroid belt. It doesn't really fit with the Victorian setting of the Wonder...
So I thought I'd list a few of the tracks on the first playlist I put together while I was writing the Wonder. If anyone is interested I'll put up a few more.
From The Thief of Baghdad by Miklos Rozca -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rK2I...
From Die Another Day - Going down together (no sniggering at the back) by David Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWyX-...
By John Barry's mate, from Casino Royale - Aston Montenegro by Nicholas Dodd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zrG...
From Firefly (RIP), Out of Gas/Derelict by Greg Edmonson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA2fR...
From Finding Nemo by Thomas Newman -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IIL-...
Track 2 from Dr Phibes Rises again by John Gale - you'll have to spotify this one - I can't find it on YouTube...
007 and Counting by... I'm sure you can guess -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWNgb...
Another one for Spotify - Bedtime Story by Jerry Goldsmith from the Capricorn One OST (Great forgotten movie)
To Kill a Mockingbird suite by Elmer Magnificent Bernstein -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5cKS...
Death of Vesper by David Arnold -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQEjC...
Well, that's 10 tracks to keep you going. There's another 52 tracks on this playlist alone, so if anyone shows an interest, I'll share some more.
(Looking back, I was obviously going through yet another Bond OST phase...)
In the meantime, if you write or read to something (ideally something of mine, but I won't hold it against you), please share below.
I'm always looking for new inspiration, and beyond soundtracks, I have willfully esoteric taste, from Sinatra to Sonic Youth, and even some artists that don't start with the letter S...
Cheers
https://www.facebook.com/thewonderseries
to check out the artwork.
There's also the original music for the trailer and another piece based on the Siege of Maisy by a fan (I'll try putting that up on YouTube soon).
However, I've been having a lovely chat with Gary Sundell on the Dragons and Jetpacks group about "What are you currently listening to?" and we've been sharing our love of soundtracks.
I only write to soundtracks but try to shy away from the obvious so that I don't end up writing about a smuggler and princess escaping an Imperial fleet in an asteroid belt. It doesn't really fit with the Victorian setting of the Wonder...
So I thought I'd list a few of the tracks on the first playlist I put together while I was writing the Wonder. If anyone is interested I'll put up a few more.
From The Thief of Baghdad by Miklos Rozca -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rK2I...
From Die Another Day - Going down together (no sniggering at the back) by David Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWyX-...
By John Barry's mate, from Casino Royale - Aston Montenegro by Nicholas Dodd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zrG...
From Firefly (RIP), Out of Gas/Derelict by Greg Edmonson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA2fR...
From Finding Nemo by Thomas Newman -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IIL-...
Track 2 from Dr Phibes Rises again by John Gale - you'll have to spotify this one - I can't find it on YouTube...
007 and Counting by... I'm sure you can guess -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWNgb...
Another one for Spotify - Bedtime Story by Jerry Goldsmith from the Capricorn One OST (Great forgotten movie)
To Kill a Mockingbird suite by Elmer Magnificent Bernstein -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5cKS...
Death of Vesper by David Arnold -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQEjC...
Well, that's 10 tracks to keep you going. There's another 52 tracks on this playlist alone, so if anyone shows an interest, I'll share some more.
(Looking back, I was obviously going through yet another Bond OST phase...)
In the meantime, if you write or read to something (ideally something of mine, but I won't hold it against you), please share below.
I'm always looking for new inspiration, and beyond soundtracks, I have willfully esoteric taste, from Sinatra to Sonic Youth, and even some artists that don't start with the letter S...
Cheers
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Good news. His soundtrack is the best thing about El Cid, I always thought. Only thing with any passion in the whole thing.
Tadlow did a 3 cd recording of El Cid now OOP. But they do have the 2 CD version which is the full score. I grabbed the 3 cd set when it came out. The movie is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I love how Sophia Loren doesn't age throughout the whole thing, while Charlton goes grey (and worse).
Then there is Herbert Lom chewing scenery before most people knew him as Inspector Dreyfus in The Pink Panther movies.Sophia still hasn't aged.
Ironically, unlike Loren, Lom always looked about 60. Maybe he's the equivalent of Loren's Dorian Grey...
The sword fight near the opening of the film is still one of my all time favorites. Getting back to Rosza, when I graduated from college, back in 1976, the band director at our school had us play two Rozsa marches for graduation. It was so cool to not have to play Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance. We used The Parade of the Charioteers from Ben-Hur and the Triumphal March from Quo Vadis.
Looks like the 3 cd set of El Cid is back in stock at the Tadlow web site.They recently released a 2 cd concert recording called Epic Hollywood which celebrates many of Rozsa's classic scores. It includes 3 selections from Thief of Baghdad, as well as selections from El Cid, Quo Vadis, King of Kings, Ivanhoe, Knights of the Round Table and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes among others. I still have my copy in the shrink wrap as I am working my way through a decent sized stack I bought from Tadlow when they had a sale earlier this year.
I was a cellist. Extremely difficult instrument to play in a marching band without at least one roller skate.
James wrote: "I was a cellist. Extremely difficult instrument to play in a marching band without at least one roller skate."Concert wind ensemble, I played tenor drum during marching season and bassoon the rest of the time. One of my good friends who played tuba as well as bagpipes went on to write a slew of Star Trek novels, her husband, also a fellow classmate also wrote a few.
I've already got the 2 CD set... My last OST purchases were Dave Arnold's Stargate, which is lovely, and ANOTHER copy of In Like/Our Man Flint because it came with the 20 minute suite from Von Ryan's Express.
How apt - Bagpipes to Star Trek. The only time I've found bagpipes palatable was Khan...
She played pipes at the local Ren Fair, but was told to stop playing the Star Wars theme on her pipes as it was not "period"...:) She taught me to play the pipes when we did the musical Canterbury Tales and I got to play the drunken bagpipe playing Miller. BTW you haven't lived until you have tried to adlib in rhymed couplets.
Right, I'm going to order Epic Hollywood. Right now.
James wrote: "Right, I'm going to order Epic Hollywood. Right now."Listened to the samples?
A Canterbury TaleBy Michael Powell
Is definitely a favourite
Although the music's a bit sh...
Didn't bother with the samples. I've been burnt so many times with tiny orchestras playing soundtracks, anything live I'll scoop up immediately.
Watch the videos on the site sometime if you haven't. The COPP has come along way since their early days. I think the consistency provided by Nic Raine has helped. Some of the later Silva releases that he conducted, like John Barry's Raise The Titanic, Zulu, EPIC (a 4 cd compilation) all come to mind, helped lay the groundwork for the Tadlow recordings.
Thanks for the kind recommendation post! Even though I'm in Tharg's proverbial robotic doghouse...It may be poorly produced, but if you get a moment, would be interested to see what you make of some of my tunes from days gone past: https://soundcloud.com/mike-rea
Michael wrote: "Thanks for the kind recommendation post! Even though I'm in Tharg's proverbial robotic doghouse...It may be poorly produced, but if you get a moment, would be interested to see what you make of s..."
It's brilliant! Really like April 2011 - I'm a sucker for that Dulcimer sound.
The last time I played live was with this band at Bestival. It was the first time I'd played live in 18 years. I was playing the ukelele bass..
https://soundcloud.com/the-du-rell-fa...
The main songwriter wrote the music for the Wonder trailer.
Back in the day, I played with the Loveblobs, Butterflies and finally Smirkic.
Smirkic are on this twice. The best one is at 47.03...
(The voice isn't great but the noise is lovely)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNJ4v...
47:03 - Smirkic - Again & Again
Nice one! Yeah, I bought that Thai zither in Bangkok and managed to get it back to the UK kind of banged up but working. Reminds me of the old zither player who used to play in the Whitgift Centre in the 80s/90s.The Du-Rell Family stuff is proper alt-country, which is nice! Has got a bit of that Nick Cave, Calexico, Iron & Wine alt-country sound, which I'm a huge fan of.
The Smirkic one ... oof, any fans of Helmet in the band? I used to really like that crunchy guitar sound in the 90s, Bivouac and Satchel used it well (although being younger I think I missed out on the more indie bands of the time, I was probably deep into Pearl Jam around then).
Last time I played live was at Glastonbury! A friend of a friend needed a backing band to recreate his sample-based cinematic trip-hop stuff, so I got to play on the Glade stage through the back door. :)
The main band I did stuff with was 'fbcfabric & reindeer' - went to college with the vocalist and we put together a live band to recreate these tracks. The producer was gold though, shoulda woulda coulda been bigger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFkl8...
That 'Blue & Yellow' track on Soundcloud was the last thing I put together myself - was going for a CS&N harmonies thing at the time, with a bit of Sufjan plaintiveness. Three year old daughters leave little time for Logic or Cubase though... :)
On a strings tip, see what you make of Violent Cases, I remain proudest of that one even years later.
If you get time, of course.
Good choices on that list my friend.