Here's a playlist that highlights a range of musical styles that I specialize in: world groove, rock, funk/soul/R&B, jazz, acoustic folk, afrobeat, bossa/samba, orchestral, and electronic hybrids.

Taste the CalZone Sound

70's Oakland funk in the style of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters band / Tower of Power, with an afrobeat intro/bridge section. Ideal for a 70's period film or TV show. Licensed to Berkeley's UCTheatre Renovation Timelapse video: https://vimeo.com/calsowncalzone/uct

East Bay Spank

Looney Tunes / The Simpsons - style animation theme for orchestra

Frantic, Looney Theme for Orchestra

A haunting, dissonant, dastardly twisted cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me". Dedicated to all the stalkers, jilted exes, and desperate incels prowling around these days.
male vocal pipe organ distorted guitar creepy menacing obsessed stalker powerful dark brooding desperate prog tense dissonant ironic cover CONTACTS Master: calreichenbach@gmail.com  Pub: pstrand@mandellmenkes.com (Self Taut Music)

CalZone Music & Sound

I Want You To Want Me (Cheap Trick Cover)

I demoed this 1 minute music loop for a kid's brain game/puzzle app. Client requested something wacky/geeky/scientific sounding.

Nerdlings on Parade

A grandiose, rousing orchestral opening theme song for a sports event broadcast or news program.

The Thrill of Victory

Prog rock music loop inspired by Led Zep/vintage Rush, produced for a jet fighter shooter video game prototype called "Sentinel Wings". Watch the gameplay video here: https://vimeo.com/calsowncalzone/ruletheskies

Rule the Skies

I was commissioned to compose an opening theme song for the Iowa Music Project, a podcast about the Iowa folk music scene. This solo acoustic fingerstyle instrumental is the result. One of the defining divides in the Midwestern folk music community is whether you're more of a Woodie Guthrie fan or an Irving Berlin fan. My theme alludes to Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" and Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" as a nod to each side of the divide.

Rag for the Great Divide

Here's a vintage 1960's style arrangement of Lalo Schifrin's "Mission: Impossible" theme using Vienna Symphonic Cube brass, winds, and percussion, and Trillian upright bass.

"Mission: Impossible"  Theme

"Junior" level theme from "Pelé: King of Football" app, remixed for broadcast. Vintage bossa nova jazz nod to Sergio Mendes' "Mas Que Nada" featuring funky piano, breezy flutes, Brazilian percussion, and nylon string guitar.

Bossa Nada

A warm, bright, and playful orchestral track with swelling, layered pulses influenced by modern classical minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Also influenced by Chevy Chase’s “na na na na...” putting sound effects from Caddyshack (thank you very little)

For pitched percussion (marimba, xylophone, piano), low woodwinds, and upright jazz bass.

Wave Play

I scored this :30 spot for CiboSF / Brass Ideas / Subaru Asia, for TV / online in 9 Southeast Asian countries. 

My score is an orchestral/electronic hybrid in 6/8 with a nod to Vangelis, and it was nominated for Best Score at 2016 AAU Media Awards.

The ad was shot in Malaysia. The client, MotorImage, is an Asian Subaru distributor who broadcast the spot in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong & Cambodia.

watch the ad here:
https://vimeo.com/calsowncalzone/subarucanoe

Subaru Forester "Canoe" ad score

Uptempo funky instrumental produced for a national ad spot. This was the client's guide track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqqBcVrDyVA

Lake Merritt/Oakland collage by Mazzarello Media & Arts http://www.mazzarello.com

City of Groove

Disco Escape

Nigerian Royal Scam is a vintage, up tempo afrobeat instrumental in the style of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band. I reworked the drums and added horns in honor of Tony Allen, Fela's pioneering drummer on the anniversary of his death. Attempting to emulate his slinky, flowing groove and trademark tumbling-down-the-stairs drum fills felt like time well spent in his presence. Cheers to the rhythmic architect of afrobeat, thanks for the inspiration.

Arrangement features a heavy horn section, deep layers of hand percussion, funky interlocking guitars, vintage psychedelic keys

RIYL Fela Kuti, Budos Band, Antibalas, James Brown, Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade, Mulatu Astatke, Ebo Taylor, Bob Marley, Miles Davis

Nigerian Royal Scam

The Dung Beetle Scuttle

High energy funk/hip hop/world groove with a taunting melodic hook. Originally produced for Pele: Soccer Legend, a mobile soccer game app featuring the Brazilian soccer star. Impact Mix is pared down from original soundtrack version for sync in other media. Features Brazilian percussion and samba bateria in the breakdown.

Pele Project

Talkin' Trash (Impact Mix)

THUS ROCKED ZARATHUSTRA: This massive, over-the-top hard rock cover of Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (the iconic opening theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) blasts off with soaring, melodramatic guitar harmonies reminiscent of Queen's Brian May. A triumphant chug riff throttles the iconic fanfare up into the orbit of metal, prog, and grunge worlds once explored by Metallica, Rush, Soundgarden, and beyond... 

Intended for sync placement in comedies, high energy sports, sci-fi, space exploration-related media/ads/trailers. The original Strauss work became became PD nearly worldwide in Jan 2020 including US, Canada, and Mexico.

Calzone Music & Sound

Thus Rocked Zarathustra

Upbeat, bouncy rock instrumental that began as a comedy podcast theme song for SF comedian Millie Brooks' "Me Myself and Millie".

70’s classic rock instrumental replete with richly layered rhythm guitars, melodic guitar solo, giddy hand claps, and a cowbell break. Ideal for a sunny top-down driving montage, a rom com romp about town, or ironic swan song cue for an innocent, unsuspecting slasher film victim. 

Available for one stop licensing.

Away We Go

The first half is a study in using speed fades, and editing, processing, and reharmonizing a vocal track using Logic's Flex mode, plus Time and Pitch Machine. Much of the percussion sounds and the distorted guitar like effects were created by time expanding and re-amping the sound of the vocalist clearing her throat at the beginning of the take. The second half explores manipulating segments of the vocal track with Logic's ESX24 sampler, and triggering the ES2 synth from a sidechain, all over an afrobeat groove in 7/8 time.

Desert Nightmare / Afrobeat Fever Dream

Cal Reichenbach produces eclectic music for film, TV, and video games. An accomplished guitarist and composer, Cal specializes in emotionally dynamic, rhythmically compelling scores that enhance visual action and propel narrative flow. His work spans a broad range of genres including rock, funk, jazz, afrobeat, Brazilian, orchestral, electronic, and world groove. Cal plays an array of guitar styles as well as bass, mandolin, ukulele, and guembri (Morroccan/Gnawa bass lute) in his productions.

Areas of scoring expertise include show open themes, emulations of any given reference track/musical genre/era, and the integration of ethnic music styles from any desired corner of the world. Tongue-in-cheek musical satire is another CalZone specialty: ironic cover arrangements, over-the-top genre parodies, and other feats of comedic scoring--from subtly sardonic to outrageously hyperbolic--are served with extra relish. 

Cal has worked with Subaru Asia, Bully Entertainment/Cosi Games (for Pelé: Soccer Legend, >7mm downloads), Pilot (for FX, AMC, CMT), Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, Men In Blazers (VICE Sports), Organic, Brass Ideas, Cibo, Evolve Media, Disher Sound (for PlayStation Magazine/Gran Turismo 4), and director Banker White/WeOwnTV.

After a decade of touring, recording with, and producing an array of rock, funk, and jazz bands including the award winning Bay Area afrobeat ensembles ALBINO! and Aphrodesia, Cal earned an MFA in music production for visual media at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.