#tom howe

Colin and Isaac's engagement photo (real).

Kola you say "best friend", I hear "soulmate".

I love Phil Dunster's one word comments

Music Supervisor Tom Howe was with the gang.

He also does the music for Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence's SHRINKING, which is unsurprisingly very good.

And now we wait for the return of TED LASSO and these guys.

‘Ted Lasso’ composer Tom Howe on creating the white noise of Ted’s anxiety, the rawness of Jamie’s heart, and the warning of Nate’s descent

Jason gives you the overall arc, the syuzhet for the whole show actually, all the seasons, so you kind of know what’s going to be happening later on, but I knew that Jamie was — even though he was kind of being a bit difficult and a bit of a playboy — that he was actually hurting, and that later on, he was going to have this confrontation with his father, and what else would be coming. So I knew that it had to have a heart, an emotional beat to it, and the piano has just become a sort of key instrument within Ted Lasso, but it’s also the way it’s recorded.

I knew that Jamie was — even though he was kind of being a bit difficult and a bit of a playboy — that he was actually hurting, and that later on, he was going to have this confrontation with his father, and what else would be coming. So I knew that it had to have a heart, an emotional beat to it, and the piano has just become a sort of key instrument within Ted Lasso, but it’s also the way it’s recorded.

So on that track, the piano is an upright piano, but it’s micced in a way where you hear all the pedal and the movement on the chair, and so it’s got a kind of rawness to it that kind of feels… a sort of realism to it, I suppose, rather than like a sample on a piano. So it’s not a perfect sound, in an intentional way, but I then weave his motif throughout the season, as you say, and used it in different ways, and it’s even in the final cue when he and Roy hug at the end [of the season 2 finale,] you get a little nugget of both their tunes together.

i’ve been waiting for the in depth season 2 discussion and i love everything tom howe is saying here about composing the s2 score but especially when he mentions how much he loved working on the 1991 scene…........