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In Quel Sorriso - In That Smile

Rebirth

A Moment Without You

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Waves

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Music by Mark Petrie
https://www.facebook.com/Mark.Petrie.Composer/
http://www.markpetrie.com

Story of the track:

A track from 13 years ago!
This particular track has a lot of meaning for me. I wrote it back when I had just turned 24, right out of music school (Berklee) and very little in the way of prospects for a career in composing at that time.
I got the opportunity to score an amazing low budget independent feature film called Cafe and Tobacco, starring a young Enrique Murciano (right before he got famous for starring in Without a Trace.) The film was set in Miami and followed a Cuban American family, but the director Michael Justiz didn’t want a traditional Afro-Cuban score. The concept was to have a sweeping, evocative score that had hints of Cuban culture, which would better represent a family with Cuban roots that was, generation by generation, assimilating deeper into American culture.
I had to do the entire project - about 40 minutes of music, without much of a budget, a studio, or even a computer! I know what you’re probably thinking, computers weren’t around then - haha! But it wasn’t that long ago: 2003 - most of my fellow students had computers but I was too poor at the time. So I cheekily used my school’s computers to make midi mock-ups of the music, which I then sent to the director for notes and approval before we recorded live instruments.
To record the various instruments, I called on a lot of favors from fellow Berklee students, including, but not limited to: engineers, super talented guitarists, percussionists, vocalists, a flautist, a conductor and even an entire strings section.
Because I didn’t have a computer, I was walking around with a very precious hard drive containing all the music and files from each recording (and there were at least a dozen separate recording sessions!)
Anyway, this was the final piece of music in the film, finally allowing the main themes of the score to play in their entirety, summing up a life affirming message and giving the audience a lift as the credits began, following a very intense scene. Sadly, Cafe and Tobacco never made it beyond a few well-received film festival screenings (where it won awards).
A few months later I submitted this piece as my application for the BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship, which I was fortunate enough to be picked for. It was an amazing opportunity to fly out to LA and learn from the TV composing legend Mike Post for a few months. I’ve lived in the LA area ever since.
The music is rough compared to the slickness of what I have to produce today for movie trailers, but I’m still really proud of it, all these years later. With my circumstances at the time, scoring Cafe and Tobacco was an epic undertaking.
I found it the other day in my iTunes and decided to spruce up the mix a little, and wanted to share it with you guys! Maybe you hear a little bit of the future trailer-ness in there somewhere :)
Thanks as always for your support!
All the best,
Mark

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Tico Walks Off

Experience the episode how we envisioned it:
http://www.talesoftheforgotten.net/mystatusisliving

The first episode of Tales of the Forgotten, "My Status is Living" explores the relationship of Iris, a machinery expert, and Rin, a young and naive robot companion built by Iris. Fearing for herself and Rin, whom she thinks of as her own child, Iris struggles with knowing she must leave the Grey Wastes, a mega-scrapyard she's been a part of for many years, and find others in an unknown world.

Tales of the Forgotten [LORE SYNOPSIS]:

"2183. The machines had taken control. Human civilizations slowly fell during the 17 years prior. Forced into the shadows out of fear and total extinction, they slowly recouped their resources over the years, and eventually, struck back across the globe. Fooled by their own mindset of superiority, the empires of the machines began crumbling one by one, and man took back what was once theirs. By making a vow to abandon technologies, humans eventually returned to a more primitive lifestyle, a lifestyle that AI were no longer a part of.

Man was thriving once more. But what of the AI? And specifically, those of the original minority? The ones who sought for peace and harmony between races. Unfortunately, any effort to remedy the situation seemed futile; these creations were alone, scattered across the globe with no means of communication to the others who felt similar. Individually, each knew that there must be a way to regain the trust of humans and regress to the prosperity of coexistence, but the efforts of one would never make a difference. They had been forgotten not only by their own for not taking a stand, but also by their creators who deemed all AI to be a threat. All hope seemed lost. But determined, the brave would venture out of the shadows and into the very world that shattered all they once knew."

Episode I: My Status is Living

Believe (feat. Jane Decker)

Tracey Chattaway - Letting Go

Audiomachine - No Matter What

From my upcoming album (2019)

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Eternity

WITH EACH SUNRISE 
YOU'RE GIVEN A CHOICE. 

MAKE IT COUNT.

Chasing Sunrise

We are pleased to present the first set of Empire Syndicate tracks!!! Feast your ears folks, this could get epic...

Tracey Chattaway - Letting Go

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