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The instrumental of my take on "O Come O Come Emmanuel" - originally written for Willow Creek & Salomon Ligthelm. I had so many requests for just the music that I exported a version without the lyrics. This track has been featured on some powerful films - check some of them out:

1) Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY | Jefferson Bethke

2) The Prophecy (Willow Creek Christmas) http://vimeo.com/18759302 | Salomon Ligthelm, Bjorn Amundsen & Blaine Hogan

The Prophecy

A piece that I recently co-composed with my good friend AJ Hochhalter (Listen Design Studio) - Uplifting, Hopeful, Ambient and Bright.

New Life

A serene string progression, full choir, a shakuhachi and an arpeggiated piano. 

Help is On the Way

The music for the Trailer of Rook: a short film I'm scoring right now. Release: 2011

Five Years

The closing cue for the film "Rook." My job in this cue (from Director Brian Reece) was to blend the two main character's themes together towards the end to accentuate the main turn in the film. Dark, twisted, romantic and tense.

Cello: Geoff Hershberger | Lexington, KY


Nevermore

A piece of music from the film "Rook" - this is Elizabeth's theme. Beautifully desolate.

Beauty is Fleeting

...But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ | Luke 15

Cello | Geoff Hershberger
Guitar | Jonathan McKeown
Composition, Recording, Arrangement, Mixing & Piano Performance | Tony Anderson

See the film here: vimeo.com/thejusticeconference/loveisathread

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The Father's Heart

The opening cue of a documentary about the water crisis in Zambia, Africa.

Hope Rising

The second cue of a score - the documentary is about the water crisis in Zambia, Africa. This piece was written for scenes that reveal how many people die per year due to unclean water - it's depressing. The tone needed to be sorrowful and gripping. I feel like the vocals that come in midway through accomplish that. my friend Aubrey Prunty helped me out with all of the vocals on this score - she's got an amazing tone for music like this!

Thirst

This is the 3rd cue for a score in a documentary about the water crisis in Ndola, Zambia. My direction for this piece was to write something hopeful, melodically addictive and simple.

Zambia's Song

This cue (for the film "Zambia's Song") was scored to shots that are incredibly depressing. Abigail is a girl that grew up in Zambia drinking contaminated water. The UN just released a statistic that more people die from unsafe water than all of the World Wars...combined.

Abigail

This is the 5th cue for a film I scored about the water crisis in Zambia. Tobiah Murphy came in and added some great violin that changed the mood and tenor of the track - I really like what he did. It's simple, but elegant.

Against the Odds

I started writing this track 5 years ago. I overheard some AM radio static that sounded interesting and recorded samples on my Edirol R-09. I love splicing & glitching, so I dropped the samples into Ableton Live and started working. This is what emerged. The whole track is a progressive build of completely organic textures and original sounds.

I never really did much with this song because I didn't like it, yet when people heard my portfolio they said this track stuck out.

Fragmentation will be released on iTunes in late Feb/early March as part of "Movements of the Heart" - a full length record of my cinematic music.

Fragmentation

This is Epilogue for a documentary called "Kingdom Workers." Co-composed with Michael Miyahara

The Kingdom of Heaven

Somewhere between the setting and rising of the Australasian sun is a rest for the soul that can't be described with words. I've done my best to give it to you audibly.
 
"Rise" is the opening track from Movements of the Heart | now available on iTunes

Additional programming and composition | Salomon Ligthelm | Sydney, Australia
Hear "Rise" with the film "Where is Your Wilderness | https://vimeo.com/38775602
Artwork | Salomon Ligthelm

Rise

Opening Music for the 2012 MOVE conference | www.ciy.com/move

Zero Gravity

"A glorious anthem, of epic proportions!"

Legends

This track didn't make the cut for a score I did in 2009 - just didn't fit the scene, but I like it anyway. Guitar by Michael Miyahara - strings by the Colburn Philharmonic [Los Angeles]

Lust

The score for "A Reflection" - a short documentary on the life of Władysław Tomczyk by the guys at Variable in NYC. The imagery was so unbelievably stunning that I didn't think I could score it at first glance - then I hired a few violinist friends of mine to help get it done. Strength lies in collaboration. Several different instruments and tones in this, and I'm really happy to share it with you. Watch the film here: https://vimeo.com/47265755

I named the piece Diāna because of a girl I met earlier in 2012 while in New York City...She (Diāna) had been sex trafficked into the US and caught up into a life of sexual exploitation - her story lives with me, and now with this music. Whenever I walk the streets of NYC, this song is what plays in my head.

1st Violin | Elizabeth Navarra | @liznavarra
2nd Violin | Charlie Lockhart
Piano Performances | Tony Anderson
Composition, Mixing & Mastering | Tony Anderson

Artwork Credit: Salomon Ligthelm

www.wearevariable.com
www.tonyandersonmusic.com

Diāna

The closing score from the forthcoming Unearthed 2013 vision film "Groundswell." I wrote it with this particular tone in mind because of a quote I heard recently - "Your scars will become lights for others to see. Don't hide them."

All ambient textures, vocals and pads are from Omnisphere - run through a matrix bus of guitar amps, distortions, high shelf reduction EQs, Waves Reverb and delay. The piano performance was done in my studio on my upright Yamaha P22 - I compressed and EQed the performance in such a way as to make them sound older and more textured.

Artwork by my Instagram friend @carrielala

www.tonyandersonmusic.com

Your Scars are Lights

The second part of my score for Unearthed's forthcoming vision film "Groundswell."

I decided to switch it up a bit and use a mixture of IDM, Asian overtones and a host of synthetic and live orchestral instrumentation - all of which culminate in a series of hypnotic melodies that work in an upward or downward perpetuation...denoting collision and mixture - all the while building toward a crescendo.

All instruments derived from Specrasonic's "Omnisphere" instrument. Composed and mixed by Tony Anderson in Logic Pro.

Artwork by my Instagram friend @carrielala

Groundswell

My friend AJ and I co-authored the score for a film called "Love Costs Every Thing" in the Spring of 2011. The film is feature length documentary that takes a provocative look into the world of Christian persecution. Today, I realized I hadn't shared this track - and it was one of my favorites because of the unique tone it takes - the scene for this track takes place in a church that had just been bombed by Al-Quaeda in Baghdad the month prior - lots of spaced ambience, sorrow and tension in this one.

www.lovecostseverything.com | Learn about the film
www.tonyandersonmusic.com | Music Licensing & inquiry



The Dragon's Throat

Wrote this for Willow Creek Church - the chord progression is just about as elementary as you can get, but I love making simple ideas sing.

Hope

A special Christmas mix I just finished of my track "Rise." Textured & re-written from the ground up to be played on a cold winter's night - preferably while it's snowing :)

Violin: Liz Navarra
Cello: Maria Navarra
Vocals: Liz Navarra
Composition, Piano Performance, Recording, Mixing, Mastering: Tony Anderson
Artwork: Salomon Ligthelm

Available exclusively for licensing at www.tonyandersonmusic.com

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Rise (Snowfall Remix)

Wintery mix of strings, depth and enigmatic movement...also featured on the score of Finding Home...

Cello: Geoff Hershberger
Violin: Charlie Lockhart
Viola: Lubitza Braikova
Composition, Programming, Mixing: Tony Anderson

Spirit (Remastered)

Originally released in 2013 for my score of Finding Home, I decided to revitalize and resurrect the original ideas in April of 2016. Here's the remastered version of Breakthrough:

Vocals: Elizabeth Navarra-Varnado & Tony Anderson
Guitars: Richard Wooldridge & Curt Vernon
Mix & Master: Chad Wahlbrink

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Breakthrough (Remastered)

I used loads of smooth, warm analog synth patches, fizzy arpeggios & spent several hours programming MIDI to create something in 2011 with components from the 1980s. And yes, Daft Punk's score for TRON helped inspire me just a little bit :)

Analogue Players in a Digital World

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Thanks for sharing this journey with me...