Hollywood , CA- From the mind of award- winning Hollywood film & TV composer Shawn K. Clement comes a genre-busting album entitled “Raw Fungus”. Fourteen tracks of mind-bending instrumental rock/jazz/fusion envelop the listener with a litany of sonic experiences.
A collaborative project, this newly released album includes multi-Grammy award winner Bob St. John (Duran Duran, Extreme, Collective Soul, etc.) Grammy nominated engineer Carl Nappa (Alan Parsons, P Diddy, Wyclef Jean, etc.) and Grammy winner Paul David Hagen, (Goo Goo Dolls, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Van Halen, Selena Gomez, Devo, Pink, etc.)
The musicianship on this collaborative effort is nothing short of stunning. Shawn K. Clement has a reputation of never rehearsing a guitar driven composition. Because of this, unpredictability dominates, curious anticipation follows.
The 1:23 intro track “Anomalous” sets the tone. The aptly titled “Food Shrapnel” follows, picking things up and starts the fusion journey. An abrupt departure occurs with the haunting “Have Eyes, Fall In”, a piece that has already received a nomination in the Hollywood Music In Media Awards (www.hmmawards.org)

Shawn K. Clement and the collection of uber-talented musicians on this masterwork demonstrate the beauty of sonic experimentation. Just when you thought music has become diluted, predictable, over-commercialized and boring, a gem like this sprouts... and spreads like, well Raw Fungus!

Nanook

Ivanscope

Extremities

The Confrontation

Exit 21B

Somewhere Out Of Knowhere

Dunhamal

Bob's Meat Market

Warriors Hymn- Long Version

Quantum Quest is my personal favorite film score.  This track is the closing scene of the film, as we fly over newly discovered terrain of Mars. The music is accompanied by an epic narrative by William Shatner. Working on this film was a great experience because I had complete creative freedom musically. I was also asked to produce the entire audio post, so I contact Leslie Ann Jones at Skywalker Sound and put together a post production team. George Lucas even stopped by during the mix session  at Skywalker. The film was nominated for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, E-World Awards, and was the winner of the Global Music Awards.  The film had an all-star cast, including Chris Pine, Amanda Peet, Samuel L. Jackson, and Hayden Christensen, Neil Armstrong (his only acting/voice over performance) and many cast members from the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises.

Quantum Quest - Universe of Possibilities

One of the only two library tracks I have written in my career. I was asked to write a high action piece music for The Extreme Music library. This became the first track on that genre disk, and till this day remains my most licensed music cue.

Psychomanix

A high-energy cue for the Open Season video game. In this scene  we see the players travel down a dangerous boat ride on the river. The score for the video game was being composed even before the film, and when the producers heard the score for the video game, it became the blue print for the feature film. I wrote about 250 tracks for this game, and played all the instruments in my studio. What a blast to work on!

Open Season - Risky River Ride

EDGE OF TIME
Lyrics


Told this from the left
And I’m told that from the right
Can anyone tell me what the truth is

We’re losing More control
We’re down to our last hope
For someone to help us save our future
On the edge of time, I’m searching

Catchin’ kids like kings
Unaware of the what  we need
They don’t even hear a word we’re sayin’ … yeah, yeah

Siting on there on their thrones
Pull the strings that fool the show
But when we ask we get no answers

We’re losin’ more control
Down to our last hope
Can somebody help  us save our future?

On the edge of time, I’m searching
But ya’ gotta believe (ya’ gotta believe)
In something

How can we turn this world around?
And get our feet back on the ground
We need to work it out somehow.

Somehowwwwwwwwwww.

But ya’ gotta believe in somethin’
How can we turn this world around?
And get our feet back on the ground
We need to work it out somehow.

How can we turn this world around?
And get our feet back on the ground
We need to work it out somehow.

Turn this world around
All around
Somehow
Turn this world around
Back on the ground

Turn this place around
Around, around, around
Somehow, somehow we’ll work it out
I wanna turn, I wanna turn, I wanna turn
This world around
Work it out somehow
Turn the world around
Around
Work it out somehow

Music by Shawn K Clement
Lyrics by Jodee Frawlee

Guitars and Keys Shawn K Clement
Lead and Backing Vocals Jodee Frawlee
Bass and Backing Vocals Chris "Catman" Kerr
Drums Al Boomer
Produced by Shawn K Clement
Mastering by Howie Weinberg
Artwork by Candice Barnett 
Cover Layout by Bruce Kraft

Edge Of Time, AKA Turn This World Around, AKA Sir Chin

The second of the two library tracks I have written in my career. I was asked to show my diversity by writing this comedy track again for The Extreme Music library. It is included on the Comedy disk for the library.

Duck 'n Dive

This was the first video game I ever scored, and was also the first video game released on Playstation 2. In this scene Donald is running around the Haunted Mansion trying to save Daisy. I was very new to the composing industry of video game scoring. This game opened many doors in the game-composing world for me. I scored the video at my Beverly Hills studio.  This project was a challenging thrill for me because I had to create an overall new theme for Donald Duck character in line with the traditional Disney themes…Very cool…….
 

Donald Duck Goin' Quackers - Haunted Mansion

This is another music cue from the Donald Duck video game. This scene is an end boss scene of a very intense level of the game.
 

Donald Duck Goin' Quackers - Big Boss

This was  the second video game I scored. It was a artistic challenge because I was asked to emulate the original batman tone, however without using any of the pre-existing Batman themes from the films. This is a heavy action battle scene. This score received a Best Score nomination.
 

Batman Vengeance - Freefall

SHAWN K. CLEMENT – COMPOSER - BIO

Shawn has had a multi-faceted career as a composer in a variety of genres and styles. As a songwriter, producer, performer and engineer, he has written over 25,000 pieces of music, which have earned him more than 300 credits on TV series, Films, Video Games and Records. He has been nominated for, as well as won, over the years, many awards.  A notable piece of work, QUANTUM QUEST (performed by the San Francisco Philharmonic and recorded at Skywalker Ranch), was nominated for Hollywood Music in Media Awards’ Best Score, and won a Global Music Award.  He has literally worked for every major studio, every major television network as well as for every major cable network.
 
In 2011, he was commissioned by The Wounded Warriors’ Project to write the orchestral piece, The Warrior’s Hymn, for The Tribute for Wounded Warriors. It was premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC by a 106-member orchestra, 247-member choir, and was sung by Jon Anderson of YES.
 
That piece was later recorded in the studio with Robin Zander of Cheap Trick on vocals; Jack Douglas (John Lennon, Aerosmith, The Who, Cheap Trick, George Harrison, Alice Cooper, etc.) producing; Warren Huart (The Frey, Aerosmith, Korn, Ace Frehley) mixing; Bob Ludwig (Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Nine Inch Nails, etc.) mastering; a 40-piece choir and the Skywalker Symphony.
 
The record release of Warrior’s Hymn and another Jazz/fusion record called Raw Fungus (which also had an All-Star lineup) he recorded in the same year, received multiple award nominations and wins.
 
His latest project has been a recording of various works he has written over the last 2 years, which includes a very diverse group of musicians, including the late Keith Emerson (Emerson Lake & Palmer, The Nice), Vinnie Colaiuta (Frank Zappa, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Faith Hill, Megadeath), Ike Willis (Frank Zappa), Don Adey (Moody Blues), Geoff Downs (YES, Asia, The Buggles), Tony Franklin (The Firm with Jimmy Page, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, White Snake, Quiet Riot..), Chaka Khan, and many more….
 
In addition to working as a composer, he has also run his own successful production company that was housed inside Paramount Pictures, which developed and produced feature films and television shows.  A personal highlight while at Paramount, was when Ray Bradbury personally asked Clement, not only to score the only documentary Ray approved about his life, but was also asked to co-produce, along with Joe Mantegna.  Unfortunately, Ray passed away before the film was completed. A panel was held at Comic Con, along with Joe and Edward James Olmos, amongst others.  A befitting place as Ray was one of the co-creators of Comic con.
 
As a side note, he has instructed a multitude of people in diverse environments.  He has conducted music theory and composition seminars at Lowell University, instructed for the Musician’s Institute, professionally taught guitar techniques for 7 years, and also spearheaded many “master-classes” and panels around the world for NAMM, ASCAP, BMI, CCC, GDC, Berklee College of Music and Comic Con to name a few.  These master-classes and panels encompassed many aspects of the business including compositional techniques, publishing, contractual issues copyright issues, artist rights and career trajectory theories - all pertaining to the creative film scoring business.  All of this experience has kept Clement on the vanguard of leading industry-companies, which has given him even more insight into modern technology and music.

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