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Scott Bomar is a Memphis based musician, Emmy Award-winning Film/TV composer and producer, songwriter and engineer of multiple Grammy winning and nominated recordings. Projects include the films Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, Mississippi Grind and Soul Men.  Bomar produced and engineered Cyndi Lauper’s Grammy nominated album, Memphis Blues, at his Electraphonic Recording Studio and co-wrote the song, “The House Always Wins” on William Bell’s 2016 Grammy winning album, This is Where I Live. His most recent film project is for the Netflix film MY NAME IS DOLEMITE.

Based on the real-life story of Rudy Ray Moore, MY NAME IS DOLEMITE, stars Eddie Murphy and was premiered at the Toronoto Film Festival in September of 2019.  The film centers on Filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, best known for portraying the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, starting with the film "Dolemite" in 1975. The film was released on Netflix on October 25, 2019 and has received critical praise for Eddie Murphy's performance, including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor and Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical.

In this episode, Scott Bomar discusses his research into and how he paid homage to the blacksploitation genre of the 1970s. Bomar details his inspiration from composers such as Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin and the performances of many instrumentalists who played on such famous films such as Shaft, Chuck Turner and Superfly. While revealing some of the musical connection to previous work he did for HUSTLE & FLOW, Scott Bomar shares how an encounter at the recording studio with another huge, musical influence, Isaac Hayes played out.

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02:21 - Put Your Weight on It 03:58 - I'm Gonna Kill Dolemite 05:51 - Sell It 07:46 - Scene 3 08:42 - Promote It 10:47 - The Phone Call 11:50 - New House Record 13:42 - Arrived

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for My Name is Dolemite was released by Milan Records on October 4, 2019, on digital and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can hear more music by Scott Bomar at his official site: https://www.electraphonicrecording.com/ or you can follow him on Twitter @electraphonic.

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In our second of two episodes focusing on the music of Borderlands 3, we follow up the last episode (104) with Borderland 3's musical director (and co-composer) for the game's score, Raison Varner.

FINISHING MOVE Inc. is an award winning production duo composing music and sound design for games, television, film and ad campaigns. Principal composers BRIAN TRIFON and BRIAN LEE WHITE craft emotionally connected sonics for the world’s finest brands and media. They've written music for games such as: Halo Wars 2: Awaking the Nightmare, Fractured Lands, and Crackdown 3, which they talked about in episode 69 of The Annotator. Their sound design work can be found in many popular film and television trailers such as: Terminator: Dark Fate, HBO's Watchmen, Mission: Impossible Fallout, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Mad Max Fury Road. Along with Jesper Kyd and Michael McCann, Finishing Move also worked on the original score for the video game BORDERLANDS 3.  

Borderlands 3 is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The game was released on September 13, 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh operating systems. It is the sequel to 2012’s Borderlands 2, and the fourth main entry in the Borderlands series.  

In this episode FINISHING MOVE, composers Brian Lee White and Brian Trifon share their approach to writing music for a few select environments and boss battles from Borderlands 3. They talk about how employed a cello in a very unconventional way, how they wrote music that would allow it to scale up and change tone easily and the challenge they faced in writing compelling small elements for the game's interactive music system. Finally, they talk about working with and getting direction from music director, Raison Varner.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:47 - Conrad's Hold: Arrival 07:26 - Proving Grounds: Mystery 12:12 - Proving Grounds: Boss Battle

NOTES

Rainson Varner - Borderlands 3 (Ep. 104) Finishing Move - Crackdown 3 (Ep. 69)

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The original score for Borderlands 3 was released by Laced Records on November 11, 2019, on digital and vinyl and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music 

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You can find out more about and hear more music by Finishing Move at their official site https://www.finishingmoveinc.com/ or follow them on Twitter: @BrianLeeWhite, @Trifonic, @Fnshing_Move

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RAISON VARNER is a composer, music director and sound designer who has worked on video games such as:  PREY, RED FACTION GORILLA, ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES, and BATTLEBORN.  He been directing music for the popular video game franchise BORDERLANDS since the very first game which was released back in 2009.  He returns to direct and contribute original music for BORDERLANDS 3 this time with co-composers: Jesper Kyd and Michael McCann.

Borderlands 3 is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games.  The game was released on September 13, 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh operating systems. It is the sequel to 2012's Borderlands 2, and the fourth main entry in the Borderlands series.  At the hard edge of the galaxy lies a group of planets ruthlessly exploited by militarized corporations. Brimming with loot and violence, this is your home—the Borderlands. Now, a crazed cult known as The Children of the Vault has emerged and is spreading like an interstellar plague. Play solo or co-op as one of four unique Vault Hunters, score loads of loot, and save the galaxy from this fanatical threat.

In this episode, RAISON VARNER describes the complexities for writing a score for an RPG-shooter hybrid game and the conceptual approach he ended up taking.  He reveals how one of the goals was to write music that created various potentially conflicting atmospheres and emotions for the player such as: awe, humor, and adrenaline-spiking-action.  Lastly, he discusses a, one-time, low-priority piece that he wrote for the game, which ended up being one the most sought after tracks by players and fans.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:35 - The Arrival 05:31 - A Forgotten Space 08:55 - Digby Vermouth 13:31 - The Family Wants the Machine

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for Borderlands 3 was released by Laced Records on November 11, 2019, on digital and vinyl and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music 

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can hear more music by Raison Varner at his official Soundcloud page or you can follow him on Twitter @raisonvarner. 

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JOSEPH TRAPANESE is best known for his sleeck score work for blockbuster films like TRON: LEGACY, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, OBLIVION and THE RAID series.  As a composer, arranger, and producer for film, television, theater and video game music, he has collaborated with a number of mainstream musical acts such as Daft Punk, M83, Mike Shinoda, and Dr. Dre.  His solo work also includes:  Stuber, Arctic, Robin Hood, Only the Brave, Earth to Echo and two installments of the Divergent series.  Now, a new live-action, "Lady and the Tramp," one of his latest works was just released on the new streaming service, Disney+.

The 2019 “Lady and the Tramp,” a timeless retelling of the 1955 animated classic of a pampered house dog and a tough but lovable stray, who embark on an unexpected adventure and, despite their differences, grow closer and come to understand the value of home.  The film is directed by Charlie Bean and written by Andrew Bujalski and Kari Granlund, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and was released on November 12, 2019.

In this episode, composer Joe Trapanese shares how he embraced the famous "Bella Notte" from the original "Lady and the Tramp" from 1955, while also writing his own original music and themes for this newest version.  He reveals how he incorporated the original "Bella Notte," as well as creating his own, new arrangments of the unforgettably, romantic song.  Trapanese also details a number of the key, original themes he wrote for the film and names a number of the talented musicians who performed them.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:40 - Main Title (Bella Notte) 04:57 - The Tramp 07:59 - Welcome to the Family 10:53 - Getting on the Boat 12:47 - Bella Notte

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for Lady and the Tramp was released by Walt Disney Records on November 12, 2019, and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Joseph Trapanese at his official site, https://www.joecomposer.com/ or you can follow him on Twitter @joecomposer and tumblr @joecomposer.

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Irish composer AMIE DOHERTY’s (Sundance Composer and Time Warner Foundation Composer Fellow) credits span a wide range of genres in both film and television. Some of her recent scores include the short-film "Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock," DreamWorks Animation’s short film Marooned; Emmy-nominated documentary Light In The Water. Amie's recent orchestration and conducting work includes Star Trek: Discovery, Lucy In The Sky, The Umbrella Academy, Fargo and FX's Legion, Starz's Counterpart, and Netflix's Altered Carbon. In June 2018, she had the pleasure to work with rapper 50 cent, conducting an orchestra, choir and band at the world famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City for a performance at the premiere of his hit show Power.  The streaming series, UNDONE, is one of Doherty’s most recent scoring projects.

Undone is an American adult animated comedy-drama web television series created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy and starring Rosa Salazar. This half-hour, genre-bending, program explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma, a twenty-eight-year-old living in San Antonio, Texas. After getting into a car accident and nearly dying, Alma finds she has a new relationship to time. She develops this new ability in order to find out the truth about her father’s death. UNDONE premiered on September 13, 2019, on Amazon Prime Video, and is Amazon's first original animated series.

In this episode, Amie Doherty takes us through several key tracks from the original Amazon series. She reveals how she was not only inspired by the visual artistry of the show but how this affected her choices in scoring each episode. At the same time she details some of the themes she wrote and techniques she employed to convey the sci-fi, mystical, and intimate family aspects to the series.

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02:17 - A Life Without Limitations 03:32 - The Monotony of Life 04:09 - Trick or Treating 05:31 - Caught in a Weird Loop 06:51 - The Life You Were Living 09:56 - Doing the Rounds 11:31 - Quantum Charis 12:48 -  Large Ventricles 16:05 - Learning English

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for Undone was released by Lakeshore Records on September 13, 2019, and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Amie Doherty at her official site, https://www.amiedoherty.com/

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Tom Hedden is an experienced composer and music producer. His powerful scores are woven into the fabric of American Culture. They are mainstays in stadiums, TV shows, advertising, websites, video games, Halls of Fame and feature films. You have likely heard his music written for the sports world including:  The NFL Pre-Game Anthem, The NFL League Theme "Sprint Right," the main theme for "American Triumvirate for the Golf Channel, and the Reebok Crossfit Anthem.  Hedden’s music has garnered the recognition of some of the industry’s most coveted awards, including: 5 Emmy Awards (11 Nominations), a Clio, an ADDY and twice, SESAC’s television composer of the year.

In 1994 the National Football League celebrated its 75th birthday. Narrated by John Mahoney, 75 Seasons tells the story of professional football in America from 1920 to 1994. From the earliest days of the league during the roaring 20s to the more brutal game that it evolved into after WWII to the rise of star players such as Homer Jones, Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown and Joe Namath all the through to the evolution of the game becoming the most popular team sport in the USA at the end of the 20th century. 

In this episode, composer Tom Hedden revisits his now-classic music from the NFL Film's documentary, "75 Seasons:  The Story of the NFL."  Hedden shares how he came onto this project, even being chosen over more prominent Hollywood composers.  He reveals how he wrote for descriptions and not to picture ... and how this greatly impacted the final music suite.   Hedden also discusses how and why he used the 5/4 rhythm for a particular section, the personal reason why he chose to include the bagpipes and which section of the orchestra had the greatest challenge with the piece. 

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:25 - Open 05:08 - Finding Daylight 06:34 - Keepers of the Flame 07:57 - Finale

OTHER TRACKS

00:11 - Intro music 01:10 - Arda's Theme 12:41 - Crazy Legs

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for 75 Seasons Suite was released on September 14, 2004, on the Autumn Thunder: 40 Years NFL Films Music Original Soundtrack from Cherry Lane Music and can be purchased at Amazon.com.

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You can find out more and hear more music by Tom Hedden at his official site, http://www.tomhedden.com/.

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DAVID ROBIDOUX is a multiple Emmy Award winning composer for TV, Film and Interactive Media. He has composed more than 100 scores for TV, musically branded the NFL, NASCAR, Boxing and Golf, written over 50 national TV opening themes and over 3000 compositions used throughout TV, film and media. He has won 15 Emmy Awards for Original Music and been nominated for more than 40. His music compositions include the Official Theme of the Super Bowl, EA Madden, MLB Thursday Night Baseball, HBO Hard Knocks, the Official Theme of NASCAR, the Official Theme of the NFL, NBC Turning Point, and Showtime Sports Theme to name a few. One of David Robidoux's most recent and high-profile projects is once again for the National Football League.

To commemorate its centennial season, the National Football League has launched 'NFL100,' a year-long celebration to bring generations of football fans, players, communities, and all 32 clubs together for a unique line-up of programming and activities. ​The NFL 100th Anniversary Theme was composed by David Robidoux to celebrate the 100th Season of the NFL. The theme is currently being used in programming throughout the NFL Network, ESPN, NBC, CBS, FOX. Robidoux composed a library of over 30 versions of the theme including one specifically to air at the beginning and end of every NFL game broadcast on all of the major networks.

In this extended episode, David Robidoux talks about his history of writing music for NFL Films and the unique challenges that come with writing a commemorative theme, as opposed to writing film scores. He vividly describes his writing process for this theme which eventually became four foundational motifs. Robidoux introduces and lightly explores each of these four main motifs before demonstrating several different arrangements of the four to cover the gamut of emotional and narrative range of the NFL’s centennial campaign.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:41 - NFL 100th Anniversary Suite 02:17 - Celebratory motif 12:48 - Action/ Triumph motif 13:11 - Toughness theme 13:47 - The Struggle theme 14:33 - Celebratory theme with nostalgia 15:18 - 4 motifs with struggle stories 19:09 - Action arrangement 21:21 - Legends and stories utilizing for more motifs 23:34 - Culminations

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for NFL 100th Anniversary Suite was released on September 1, 2019, by NFL films and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.

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You can find out more and hear more music by David Robidoux at his official site, www.davidrobidoux.com

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WILBERT ROGET, II is a veteran composer in the video game industry. He joined LucasArts as a staff composer in 2008, where he scored several games in the Star Wars universe, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: First Assault. He later became a freelance writer, scoring Call of Duty: WWII, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and the most recent entry into the Mortal Kombat game universe, MORTAL KOMBAT 11 is among his most recent projects. His scores have earned him several awards and nominations from the Game Audio Network Guild, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (D.I.C.E. Awards), and others.

Mortal Kombat 11 was released in April 2019 from NetherRealm Studios for the Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Windows. In it, the story continues as Raiden’s defeat of the evil Elder God, Shinnok, has drawn the ire of Kronika, the Keeper of Time, and upset her desired balance between good and evil. To restore stability in the realms, Kronika has only one option – rewind time to its beginning and restart history. Through the immersive story mode, players take on the role of various fighters from past and present Mortal Kombat eras, who must join forces to defeat Shao Khan’s Outworld armies and solve the temporal crisis at stake.

In this episode, Wilber Roget opens up his score for Mortal Kombat 11 and shares how he helped to define the protagnist forces versus the antagonist by utilizing acoustic East Asian instrumentation versus electronic performances of Middle Eastern influenced music respectively. He also delves into exactly how he reflected the crucial narrative element of time in his original score. And throughout this episode, Roget spotlights a number of the talented musicians that he helped to bring his score for Mortal Kombat 11 to life.

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02:31 - A Matter of Time 06:22 - Time Quake 08:21 - Sins of the Father 10:47 - Kitana Kahn 13:03 - Anagnorisis 15:26 - Showdown

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for Mortal Kombat 11 was released on June 28, 2019, by Water Tower Music and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Wilbert Roget, II at his official site, http://www.rogetmusic.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @wilbertroget

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TIM WYNN is a California based composer for feature films, television series, documentaries and video games. He studied at the USC School of Music under Elmer Bernstein, Christopher Young, Buddy Baker and Jerry Goldsmith. Some of his career highlights include feature films: To Save A Life , Starving Games, and Descendant. He’s composed for video games: XCOM 2, Darkness II, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Madden NFL 25, and for TV shows: Mech-X4, Supernatural, and The Deep End.

Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein's FREAKS portrays the story of 7-year-old Chloe, who lives in both fear under her father's (Emile Hirsch) protective and paranoid control, and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat - or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger (Bruce Dern) offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real. The film was released on September 13, 2019.

In this episode, composer Tim Wynn opens up six tracks from his original score. He reveals his musical ideas behind several of the main character themes and even how one theme, originally written for one character was eventually used for another. Tim shares which piece convinced him that a live orchestra was going to be needed for this score and lastly how having two directors on a film can lead to unique musical challenges for the composer.

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02:13 - Freaks 04:07 - To the Park 05:41 - Time Bubble 07:08 - She Looks Like An Angel 08:16 - Eleanor Reed 10:48 - Hell Fire

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for Freaks was released on September 6, 2019, by Moviescore Media and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.

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You can find out more and hear more music by Tim Wynn at his official site, http://timwynn.net/ and you can follow him on Twitter @timwynn_

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GEOFF KNORR is an award-winning composer of music for media and the concert hall. He has worked as a composer, orchestrator, sound designer, and mixing engineer on many video game titles, including Civilization VI, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Civilization V, among others. His recent work on the Civilization series has garnered numerous industry nominations and awards. Notably, the soundtrack for Civilization: Beyond Earth won the 2014 IFMCA Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media award. 

Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is the second official expansion pack for the turn-based strategy video game Civilization VI from Firaxis Games, released 2KGames. It was released on February 14, 2019 for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. In Gathering Storm, the world around you is more alive than ever before. In the game, you chart a path to victory for your people by developing new advanced technologies and engineering projects and negotiating with the global community in the World Congress on critical issues. Civilization VI: Gathering Storm introduces eight new civilizations and nine new leaders. Seven new world wonders can be constructed, as well as a variety of new units, districts, buildings, and improvements.

In this episode Geoff Knorr takes us on a deep dive into the development of the thematic music he wrote for two of the eight civilizations introduced into the world of Civilization VI: his music for the Ottoman Empire and his music for the Maori people of New Zealand. But before this, Knorr shares some crucial details about the expansion and some of the overall goals for the music of Gathering Storm, including the epic opening cinematic.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:43 - Main Titles 05:15 - The Ottoman Empire 08:35 - The Maori

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for Seis Manos was released on February 14, 2019, by 2K Games and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.

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You can find out more and hear more music by Geoff Knorr at his official site, http://www.geoffknorr.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @geoffknorr

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KEVIN MANTHEI has been working in the film, television and game arena for over 18 years. He has worked as the series composer on over half a dozen animated TV shows and several animated features, and composed over 60 game soundtracks. He studied with composer Jerry Goldsmith and has worked alongside of one-time, fellow students Christophe Beck and Marco Beltrami. He has written original music for BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT, JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER and GENERATOR REX. He has also written video game scores such as TRON: EVOLUTION, STAR TREK ONLINE and CHAMPIONS ONLINE. It was his work for video games that helped bring him to the attention of Jhonen Vasquez who hired Manthei to score 26 episodes of cult animated series INVADER ZIM.

INVADER ZIM: ENTER THE FLORPUS is an American, animated, science-fiction, comedy film written by Jhonen Vasquez. It continues the original animated television series, Invader Zim, which originally aired on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons from 2001 to 2002. The new film was released on Netflix on August 16, 2019. In the film, Zim suddenly reappears to begin Phase 2 of his evil alien plan to conquer Earth, while his longtime nemesis Dib sets out to unmask him once and for all.

In this episode, composer Kevin Manthei talks about returning to the Invader Zim franchise after 20 years. He discloses some of the challenges he faced in returning like: being respectful to his original score for the tv series while also adding something new. He reveals just how collaboratively he worked with creator/director Jhonen Vasquez; how Bram Stoker's Dracula influenced a portion of the music and how an early version of a particular piece was compared, by the director, to John Williams' Home Alone.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:34 - Space Looked Back 03:57 - Discovering Dib & Main Titles 07:22 - Floopsy Bloops Smoopsy SRC 08:19 - Epic Montage 12:30 - Peace is Nice 15:16 - Schmorpus Hole 18;22 - Dibs Epic Chase 20:59 - End Credits

SOUNDTRACK

You can listen to the original score for Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus at Kevin Manthei’s Soundcloud page.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Kevin Manthei at his official site, https://www.kmmproductions.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @kevinmanthei or on Tumblr @kevinmantheimusic

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CARL THIEL is an award winning composer and producer who splits time between Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Born into a European family and raised in Mexico City, he was exposed to a rich and wide variety of cultural experiences and musical styles from a very early age. At age 6, he began taking classical piano lessons under the tutelage of Carlos Alcaráz -from the National Conservatory of Music- and within a couple of years, he was already improvising and composing his own music. 

Just a few of Carl Thiel's recent projects include: "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series”, “The Teller and the Truth”, Rooster Teeth's sci-fi comedy "Lazer Team 2", and "Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy". He recently completed the score to "Seis Manos", an exciting new Netflix original Animé series, produced by the same team that brought you "Castlevania".

Seis Manos is an American adult animated web television series created by Brad Graeber and Álvaro Rodríguez. The story is set in the fictional town of San Simon in 1970 Mexico, where three orphaned martial arts warriors join forces with a DEA agent and Mexican Federale to avenge the death of their beloved mentor.  The series debuted on NETFLIX on October 3, 2019.

In this episode - Carl Thiel shares what techniques and instruments he used to musically blend Chinese and Mexican cultures together in his original score.  He also dives into several key character themes and action sequences and details a number of the unique instruments he employs to help create, what he calls, a "melting pot" of a score. 

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:25 - Seis Manos - Main Titles 03:43 - Be a Flower, Be Nothing 05:28 - Brister 06:40 - Serrano's Demise 11:17 - Chi Sau Training

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for Seis Manos was released on October 4, 2019, by Milan Records and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Carl Thiel at his official site, https://carlthiel.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @cutmasta

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Emily Rice is a British born composer for film and TV, who started her musical life as a cellist playing in orchestras and rock bands. Rice has previously served as assistant to several elite film composers including Brian Tyler, James Newton Howard and Laura Karpman, and was a writing assistant to Junkie XL.  Her music can be heard in Hollywood blockbusters such as Tomb Raider and Alita: Battle Angel, and she has garnered several orchestration credits including The Mummy, Altered Carbon and Star Trek: Discovery.  Rice recently completed scoring her first TV show, for the Netflix series The I-Land, which will be was released September 12, 2019. 

The I-Land is an American science fiction thriller web television miniseries created by Anthony Salter. The series stars Kate Bosworth and in the show, ten people wake up on the beach of what appears to be a deserted tropical island. None of them have any memory of who they are or how they got there, and each takes on the name that is printed on their clothes tags. They set off on a trek to try to get back home, only to discover the world is not as it seems.

In this episode, Emily Rice talks about having her score for  The I-Land walk a delicate balance  somewhere between music and sound design.  She reveals how she crafted her score to touch on the various elements of the series: the humans, the mysterious, and the sci-fi.  Rice also reveals how an old song from "Bonnie & Clyde" becomes one of the many heavily processed sources in her original work.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:07 - The Raft 06:09 - The Storm 07:49 - The I-Land Pays You Back 09:12 - The Burial 11:22 - KC's Trauma & Crime 15:45 - Taylor I-Land No Chickens

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The original score for THE I-LAND is not currently available for purchase.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Emily Rice at her official site, https://emilyricemusic.com and you can follow him on Twitter @emricemusic

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DIDIER LEAN RACHOU is an award winning composer whose feature film credits include POWDER BLUE, HOW TO ROB A BANK, MOVING McALLISTER, and MGM’s HER BEST MOVE. Rachou is also the composer of both the 16-time Emmy winning series DEADLIEST CATCH and GOLD RUSH (Discovery). In May 2017, Didier took home his 13th ASCAP Film and Television Music Award, not only winning a Most Performed Themes and Underscore award for the 5th year in a row, but also winning this year’s prestigious ASCAP Composers’ Choice Television Composer of the Year award.

DEADLIEST CATCH is a documentary television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab, queen crab, opilio crab and bairdi crab fishing seasons. It's the world's deadliest job-where a man could die every week-the most macho of manly occupations: the Alaskan crab fisherman. Deadliest Catch premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005, and the show currently airs worldwide. 

In this episode, composer Didier Lean Rachou, after just completing his work on season 15, shares just how musically rewarding his experience on DEADLIEST CATCH has been because of the wide range of musical styles he's been asked to implement since joining the program in 2012. He talks about the ongoing challenge of bringing these intense,life-and-death stories from the Bering Sea to the small screen. Rachou reveals just how working on this reality-tv-program has personally impacted him, as the people at the heart of the show are in very real real danger and don't always return home.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:28 - Intrepid 02:52 - Earl of War 05:49 - Captains 07:35 - Circle Back 09:35 - F/V Destination Open 13:09 - Dutch Harbor Percussion 15:30 - Reflections 17:32 - Good Fishing

SOUNDTRACK

The original score for DEADLIEST CATCH is not currently available for purchase.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Didier Lean Rachou at his official site, http://didierleanrachou.com/  and you can follow him on Twitter @didiermusique

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BEN FOSTER is a four-times BAFTA-nominated composer with extensive credits in major productions across a variety of genres. He has composed over 200 episodes of scripted television. Ben worked with David Arnold on Amazon/ BBC One’s hugely acclaimed Good Omens, providing additional music for the series, and arranged the songs of Elton John for Dexter Fletcher’s film Rocketman. As an arranger and conductor he has worked with composers such as John Williams, Jóhann Jóhannson, Will Gregory, Mica Levi and Marc Streitenfeld. He also arranged and conducted the music for 110 episodes of Doctor Who.

NICK FOSTER is a multiple BAFTA-winning composer, arranger and producer of music for television, commercials and film. Working both solo and in collaboration from Air Studios, London, Nick has made his name composing scores for television shows in the UK and US including: Timewasters, Bounty Hunters, the Derren Brown specials (including the recent Netflix specials, Sacrifice and The Push), The A List, Cuckoo, the Emmy-winning Hank Zipzer for the BBC. 

Ben and Nick Foster have collaborated on the original music for 78 episodes of the animated series, THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO (ITV) for which they have been nominated for BAFTA, Music and Sound and British Academy Awards.

Thunderbirds Are Go is a British animated science fiction television programme produced by ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures. It is a remake of the Supermarionation series Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson that follows the exploits of International Rescue (IR), a life-saving organization equipped with technologically-advanced land, sea, air and space rescue crafts; these are headed by a fleet of five vehicles named the Thunderbirds that are launched from IR's secret island base in the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are the five Tracy brothers, who pilot the Thunderbird machines. Thunderbirds Are Go premiered on 4 April 2015 and is currently in its third series.

In this episode of the Annotator, the brothers Foster open up their original score for series 2 of THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO. They discuss their unique treatment of Barry Gray's original theme as a part of their audition for the project. Not only do they reveal how they incorporated some of Barry Gray's original instrumentation and style but also how and when they departed from it. Lastly, the two share how they specifically chose to utilize a large symphonic orchestra for this score with the idea of exposing young children to such music and hopefully introducing the idea of being involved with music in some way.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

03:22 - TV-21 05:09 -  Thunderbirds March 05:54 - Surveyor Located 07:45 - Ray Mechas 09:52 - The Mechanic 11:21 - International Rescue vs The Mechanic 14:30 - The Jeff Tracy Fix 16:37 - I Am The Mechanic 17:51 - Thunderbirds March (Minor Version)

OTHER TRACKS

18:47 - Lovely Day for a Massive Drone Malfunction

SOUNDTRACK

The soundtrack was released on August 30, 2019 by Silva Screen Records and can be purchased on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streamed Apple Music.  

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS

You can find out more and hear more music by Ben Foster at Cool Music Limited and Nick Foster at his official site https://www.nickfostermusic.com/. You can follow them on Twitter @benfostermusic and @nickfostermusic. 

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AUSTIN WINTORY has built his career on exploring and curiosity. He began his obsession with composing back when he was ten years old, when he discovered Jerry Goldsmith’s scores to Patton and A Patch of Blue. He has composed music for video games such as the multi-award winning Journey from ThatGameCompany, for Stoic Studio's THE BANNER SAGA, and Squid Studio's ABZU AND Ubisofts ASSASSIN'S CREED: SYNDICATE. Additionally, he has written over 50 original scores for film including his first, the Sundance-Festival-winning CAPTAIN ABU RAED. Outside of games, Austin also maintains a busy concert composing schedule, with regular appearances throughout the world. Austin Wintory's most recent original score is for the interactive murder mystery game, ERICA, developed by Flavourworks and released by Sony Entertainment.

In the game, you become Erica, a brave young lady plagued with nightmares of your father's murder. With the traumatic events that have haunted you as a child dragged back into the light of the present day via grisly new clues, it's up to you to unearth the shocking truth behind this devastating tragedy. Every choice you make influences how the game develops, with multiple endings awaiting you at the finale of the emotional branching narrative.

In this episode, Austin Wintory takes us beneath the murder-mystery of ERICA to reveal some of the intricate details of creating an original score for this extremely interactive game. He shares how key themes are combined and contrasted throughout the game based on the players choices and the resulting atmospheric and even narrative effects. Austin Wintory also unveils how he came to utilize Delphic maxims as lyrics within his score.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:49 - Introduction and background 04:44 - Main Theme/ Know Thyself 07:01 - The Aria for Delphi 08:50 - A Lost Home 09:48 - They are Going to Lie to You 13:46 - Another World Beneath 17:21 - Respect the Oracle

SOUNDTRACK

The original soundtrack for Erica was released by Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe on August 20, 2019 and is available digitally on Amazon.com and iTunes. You can stream the soundtrack on Spotify and Apple Music.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Austin Wintory at his official site https://www.austinwintory.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @awintory

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CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ has written music for some of the world’s greatest storytellers. Whether for Seth Rogen as a hot dog saving the world in Sausage Party, the lush orchestral melodies of Steven Spielberg’s Medal of Honor series or futuristic dystopian Americana for J.J. Abrams’ Revolution, this classic eclectic ability has now become his signature.  Lennertz has teamed up with legendary artists like Grammy winners Arturo Sandoval and Dave Grusin, The RZA, and Sheila E. as well as members of Pearl Jam, No Doubt, The Beastie Boys, Dave Matthews Band, Jurassic 5, and Jane’s Addiction. Collaborations with directors Tim Story, John Favreau, and Ben Stiller as well as producers Doug Liman, Ed Norton, McG, and Joel Silver, and many others have led to a stream of box office successes.

This is Lennertz's third time on the podcast, having previously shared his musical story behind his work on SMURFS:  THE LOST CITY and Netflix's LOST IN SPACE.  He returns to The Annotator to open up one of his most recent projects - his original score for the Amazon Prime series:  THE BOYS.

THE BOYS is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about “The Seven,” and their formidable Vought backing.  All 8 episodes were released on Amazon Prime on July 26, 2019.

 In this episode, Christopher Lennertz dissects the many exotic components that he’s combined to create  the distinctive sound for THE BOYS including: wratchets, breathing, rubbing hands, indian singing bowls and knitting needles.  He details how he developed this gritty, garage-rock feel as well as invoking other musical-styles to convey significant moments in the series and to represent some of the key characters in THEY BOYS.

ANNOTATED  TRACKS 

02:33 - Translucent Alive 03:47 - Butcher 06:23 - Starlight 07:36 - Hijacking 09:47 - Translucent Explodes 12:10 - Hughie Trashes Room 13:38 - Homelanders Speech 15:15 - Frenchies First Kill 16:50 - Robin's Memory 18:47 - Homelander and Stillwell

SOUNDTRACK

The soundtrack was released on July 26, 2019 by Madison Gate Records and can be purchased digitally on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more and hear more music by Christopher Lennertz at his official site http://christopherlennertz.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @clennertz.

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