Vol. 7

altone last smoke

Tumulus by Dromberg

Sesen Radiate

julia gjertsen Paraply

A selection of my favourite pieces I've composed over the years. 


©Ben Stanbridge

Music portfolio

Le Silencieux - Alain Goraguer

Paraply

Recorded on July 30 2014 in Budapest Hungary @ Mygar Radio Studio #22 with the Budapest Art Orchestra. 
Conducted by Peter Pejtsik....

https://adambryanbaumwiltzie.bandcamp.com/releases

The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 3

West-Ukrainian folk
(Fender Stratocaster LH, Epiphone Sheraton II LH.

Kolomyika-Jam (West-Ukrainian folk_FUNK)

Taken from the limited edition vinyl LP:  2.11.14
It documents two improvisations from Hauschka recorded in Japan last year. 


Hauschka - 02.11.14 - Part 1

An absolutely beautiful track from the upcoming early December release from Polish composer and violinist, Olga Wojciechowska. From an album of music composed for various theater and film productions.

Olga Wojciechowska,  "Maps And Mazes",   I'm Never Not Thinking About You

Preorder CD | Digital: https://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/earthworks 

'Earthworks' is Thom Brookes' debut album as Drombeg, following his acclaimed EP ‘Notes From The Ocean Floor’ in 2015. A soundtrack for the middle-of-nowhere, the wild landscapes of Brookes' native Southern Ireland are littered with historic (Tumulus), and geological (Béarra) structures hardened under the relentless elements. Sinuous string melodies, and tender piano phrases reach like sunlight breaking through heavy clouds, blended with electronics and field recordings in careful balance to produce a rich cinematic sound.



Tumulus by Drombeg

When Darkness Spoke - Salem's Secret

Alicks. - Next To You

Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music For Airports [Full Album]

Catalog No: TRD039/TRCD13
Artist: Various Artists
Album Release: Tehnofonika Tri (3 Years of Tehnofonika)
Genre: Ambient Dub Techno

Release date: 27.11.2017.
*Beatport pre-orders: 13.11.2017.
*Bandcamp exclusive: 01.10.2017.

Tracklist:
01. Alveol - Glitter Path (Arunachala Version)
02. Alex Humann - Enviromental Climate
03. BT Gate X-138 - Arkhangelsk
04. Martin Frost - Rejuvenation
05. Echo Box - Fallen Leaves
06. Warmth - Drift (Advanced Dreams Remix)
07. Faidel - Ymer O
08. Mechanist - Yevl
09. Segue - Late September Sky
10. Goran Geto - Lazy Night Chord

Written and produced by credited artists.
Audio mastering by Goran Geto.
Cover art design by Fonika Media Group.

http://tehnofonika.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/tehnofonika.records

Alveol - Glitter Path (Arunachala Version)

From Snorri Hallgrímsson's debut album 'Orbit' (Out Now)

stream/buy 'Orbit' (CD/Digital)
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2vJLgP2
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ldL4PU
iTunes: https://apple.co/2JWVgu3

Orbit

Still Life

stream/buy

Snorri Hallgrímsson - Still Life

Last smoke

Download full album: https://coldtearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tender-h-sentido-oasis

Sentido Oasis

Tender H - South Dreams

«Flashbacks» is a colorful atmospheric music from Tender H and Thomas Carmody, the hero of which is a person living a conscious and measured life. He is able to stop at the right time, look around, analyzing a series of recent events, and continue to sail on the river of life. Turn on, relax and sum up the results of yesterday, week, month or, most importantly, the year. Life is one and there will be no repetition, only a competent analysis of the path will give you advice for the future. Enjoy listening!

Produced by Tender H & Thomas Carmody (@tender_hornet @thomascarmody)
Design by Thomas Carmody
Photo by Chrissa Giannakoudi

Flashbacks

Download on Bandcamp

Tender H & Thomas Carmody - Flashback I [YIN047]

Decided to get back to what got me into writing for films in the first place, orchestral adventure scores! 

So in this piece I've try to encapture themes of wonder, danger, action, heroism and beauty.

Hope you enjoy! :)

©ben stanbridge 2019

Adventure Awaits

Momentum - Armylian (Sygnals Rmx)

Alicks - Empathy

This song symbolises change and sums up a lot of emotions I've been feeling lately. In a way, it's been a great release of old ideas and dark concepts so naturally, it feels right to put this out as the next single. It doesn't matter what this song is about - what I want to really push in this song is for you, the listener, to take the song away and interpret it in your own way. Connect with it in methods that don't need to bind what it was originally written about. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. This song means so much.

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thesebrittlebones

Twitter - https://twitter.com/brittlebonesuk

Lyrics:
There's blood been spilt in this hole where you left,
your veins run dry with emptiness.
this worn out shell has cost you dear,
whist your bones they ache and shake with fear.

These salt ashes surround my feet,
whilst bitter hopes make you sit and weep.
In FLECKS you fall and lose your flair,
in flames you fall don't softly care.

In the dark you rest,
and hold your tounge,
dressed in ivy, 
not too young.

In awe, you thaw,
but not remain,
your skin clings tight
to your narrow frame.

But in FLECKS.

In FLECKS you rise and fall in fear,
whilst poison thoughts collect too near,
your faith restored you lost in vain,
whist the lonely souls collect in pain.

Your echoes are born in a static air,
and silence suggests you've lost your care.
These blinding lights emit your sight,
whilst burning hopes bind you tight.

In the dark you rest,
and hold your tounge,
dressed in ivy, 
not too young.

In awe, you thaw,
but not remain,
your skin clings tight
to your narrow frame.

But in FLECKS.

Composed, Written and Performed by Chris Jones (These Brittle Bones).
Recorded, Mixed, and Produced by Leonard Soosay at Snakeweed Studios.
Piano and Vocals by Chris Jones (These Brittle Bones).

Flecks

Kyson Remix of Sydney based band 'Sleep Makes Waves'
For their forthcoming remix album which will be  out in January 2013.

http://sleepmakeswaves.com/


Sleepmakeswaves - we like you when you're awkward (Kyson remix)

"For more than one year I was not inspired to create music. I couldn’t hear anything in my head anymore, which left me feeling empty and upset. I felt I had lost an important and vital part of me. Music creation meant escaping from a harsh reality, finding my true self and the real place I belong to. Not being able to enter that world again made me feel lost, until one day, November 6th 2018, I discovered my mother was diagnosed with a stage IV deadly cancer.
That same night I needed to sit in front of my piano. 
I had been living only with my mother since my father left when I was 16. We had many hard moments, but managed throughout the years to find balance. 
That diagnosis messed up our lives again. 
I could clearly hear this melody in my head, the moments before rushing to the piano. 
A dark butterfly flying in the night sky appeared in my mind. Marvelous, elegant, brave yet so delicate and vulnerable flying in the dangers of the night. "


Music does not present us with a logical language, but it reveals the nature of feelings with a detail and truth that language cannot approach.(Langer, 1951)

Hypolimnas

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SESEN - Radiate

There is something mysterious in the cold autumn evenings. Something that fills the void within us with some inexplicable Sorrow.

Sorrow

Preview of a new ambient track composed for a group of talented contemporary dancers : "Cie PurE"

https://www.facebook.com/CompagniePurE/

https://www.instagram.com/cie_pure/

Pure

"Changing Sky" electronic music with electric guitar and vocals. a change in the sky , a change in fortunes?  just playing around with ideas for a song,
"and I got a head that´s full of dreams
is it any wonder.
And at last a changing sky
waiting in the future
where to go, when you don´t know where to go?
where to go, when there is no where to go?

Changing Sky

Electronic, song. "Invincible"  
Longtime ago I had this recurring nightmare, a typical scene of being chased,  by something very frightening... 
I was running away from something very scary, down lanes, roads and passageways. In one of these dreams I ran so fast I had to jump over a fence that suddenly appeared in front of me,
 as I leapt over it I took off!  , I was flying!... flying through this city, 
 anyways, back to the point. Years later I had the nightmare again, but this time I was frightened so much I woke up ! 
 at that point I realised this was that old recurring nightmare, 
so I decided to go straight back to sleep and try to bring that nightmare back and go looking for what ever was chasing me remembering it was just a dream. And I did just that!
...in dreams you can be invincible :)

Invincible

After our previous collaboration, I was so pleased when EllE (Cycle of Hands) agreed to work with me again on this new track, both with the music and vocals. It has not exactly been an easy ride and I have to admit that at times I almost gave up on it...but I am so, so glad that we both persevered, as '4am' has become something rather special and unique. Huge thanks to EllE. She is - and always will be - a star. 

You can contact her at https://soundcloud.com/cycleofhands

Lyrics below:
There are some things that wait until the quiet
Time of night
To take over your mind before the day gets bright
When everyone’s still asleep I feel like I might
Be the only one alive so I look to the sky

I take comfort in the stars and the moon in despite
Of their distance from my room where I sit and write
Pieces of ideas from this muse deep inside
She’s the higher form I use to free my light

It’s 4 am and I am
In the deep end 
No sleep then
For me this night

It’s me and my mind
I can’t unwind 
I wonder 
I hunt for 
What is life

I Ignite a little fire to see where I am
In the A.M. I get tired but I still can’t land
Mayhem of creation doesn’t care about plans
I made when my intention was lights out by 9

But Inspiration beckons and I can’t reject the call
If it is passed to me it’s disrespect if I drop the ball
Of energy like electricity from the wall
It’s all I see and I know its me who needs to crack this vault

It’s 4 am and I am
In the deep end 
No sleep then
For me this night

It’s me and my mind
I can’t unwind 
I wonder 
I hunt for 
What is life

It’s 4 am and 
The world is small
This screen the window 
And my wall

No sounds are heard
Except my own thoughts
They go Back and forth 
And it ticks me off

My eyes are glued to this new creation 
I can’t stop, drop or leave this inspiration 
Inside me theres a key to the ignition 
When its turned There is no chance of intermission 
I’ve been hitting on something much bigger than fiction 
I know Because it comes straight from my deepest intuition 
It can’t wait to escape from everything I’ve written 
Leaping from the words the moment you see em

So tonightt I am defying my sleep cycle 
Gonna try to give life to these dreams that I pull
From the hat on my skull That been getting too full 
With ideas and scenarios playing like a film roll 
On repeat so I need to hit focus and record
Can’t miss a thing double checking every cord
I know that the final piece is my only reward 
I blow through minutes and hours with every step taken towards
My gold

Play on Spotify

4am (*thommo* and EllE)

Do You Believe In Miracles by RM Cribben 2017 ©️All Co0yrights Reserved I wrote this song as an Easter song, back in 2017 it is an upbeat track, to make you feel good...I  feel at present with the current coronavirus situation, we are all wishing for a great miracle, I hope the health authorities find a quick cure...for the covid19!  So we can all get back to normal! These are very testing times right now. Our lives are changing before our eyes....change is inevitable. We all need change for a better future.x

Always believe in Miracles.x I do👍🏻🎶🎶🎶😀
You can check this song out on my YouTube channel, to sing along to.x Don’t forget to subscribe.x

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES

Dark Skies

Vesicle

Managed to finish a track I started last year. A orchestral journey full of wonder, mystery and romance.

©ben stanbridge 2020

Astray In The Enchanted Forrest

Skyline At Dusk

I first encountered Ben Chatwin's music as Talvihorros sometime in 2011 through his release on hibernate imprint. We become more acquainted when he contributed a beautiful track towards my ...and darkness came benefit compilation appearing in 2012. A few years later, Chatwin moved from London to Edinburgh and began recording under his real name. This new beginning also gave his music a refreshed and upgraded sound and with newly found confidence he moved on to the independent Village Green imprint - see Sleeper Awakes appearing on Headphone Commute's Best of 2015 lists. We've seen his follow-up, Heat & Entropy, grace the 'best of' lists a year later, but in 2018, I must admit, I was completely blown away with the Staccato Signals. Something changed entirely. Chatwin's music became cinematic, darker, edgier, blending synthetic and the acoustic, pushing the boundaries of intense sonics and textures, and totally gripping my mind. Needless to say, the album grabbed the top spot in the coveted Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids list of best cinematic music of 2018. This year, Ben Chatwin is back to unleash The Hum for Village Green, his sixth studio album under his own name, and today I've got an exclusive premiere from the release dropping tomorrow.

The title of the album, and indeed the title of this track, hint at something lurking behind the lights, the pipes, and concrete. That something is a sound, a drone, a purr, of lifeless objects generating life. When electricity is cut, the house fills with silence, and only then are you aware of all that constant whir you've been surrounded all time. This sonic ghost becomes the bloodstream of the dwelling, and with The Hum, Ben Chatwin amplifies its voice. This rumble is electric, growling, at times it's suffocating with the bass, its place expanded, frequencies increased, dynamics magnified. But at the center of this multi-dimensional chant lies a song, alone in space, alone in beauty. This is the song of Chatwin's music, and I've been mesmerized with all it has to say.

"When electronic artist Ben Chatwin plugged his Moog synthesiser into the mains at home one day, he was surprised to find the electrics of his home faintly singing. His house was built in the nineteenth century, and what he was listening to was the building’s natural hum. He boosted the volume, and in doing so, found the inspiration for his next release, The Hum, out on Village Green on November 6th"

The Hum

Ghost In The Machine

TRACK PREMIERE : Ben Chatwin - Ghost In The Machine

Ben is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist based in the UK, specialising in writing for Picture. Being in close collaboration with top up and coming film makers, Tomisin Adepeju, Oz Arshad, Rehan Mudannayake and Lamont Lamar. 

He has composed music for over 30 shorts which have been in association with Sundance, Cannes, BFI, Bafta and Pinewood Studios and collectively won over 100 awards from international festivals.

Over the years Ben has cultivated a bold but sensitive style using both orchestral, electronic and experimental techniques to create his unique voice. His thrilling and emotional score for Ian Asbjornsen's sci-fi epic Odyssey Omega in 2020 received 4 Best Original Score awards and, in 2021, Ben had the pleasure of working with Emmy-nominated actress and writer Latitia Wright on her debut short film Things I Never Told My Father. 

[for work enquiries, contact: 
bastanbridge@hotmail.com]

©Ben Stanbridge 2022

Vesicle

Ben Stanbridge | Composer