Name: Opening Titles (from Past Perfect, 2002) by Richard Feren in Film music
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Description: My first full feature film score was for the Daniel MacIvor film PAST PERFECT, released in 2002. The opening title music introduced the recurring themes that I derived loosely from the traditional Christmas song "What Is This Fragrance" (a recording of it was used at the end).

Film music

New track from our upcoming album "Behold". The lyrics are by Edgar Allan Poe; his poem "Alone" (1829).

From childhood’s hour I have not been 
As others were—I have not seen 
As others saw—I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring— 
From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow—I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone— 
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— 
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn 
Of a most stormy life—was drawn 
From ev’ry depth of good and ill 
The mystery which binds me still— 
From the torrent, or the fountain— 
From the red cliff of the mountain— 
From the sun that ’round me roll’d 
In its autumn tint of gold— 
From the lightning in the sky 
As it pass’d me flying by— 
From the thunder, and the storm— 
And the cloud that took the form 
(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 
Of a demon in my view—

Alone

From the new album "Behold", released December 25, 2022

A cover of the Human League song, which originally appeared on the "Dare" album in 1981.

music & lyrics: Philip Oakey, Philip Adrian Wright
arrangement: Richard Feren
vocals: Erika Batdorf

produced by Richard Feren

Behold

I Am The Law

From the new album "Behold", released Dec. 25, 2022

music: Richard Feren
lyrics & vocals: Erika Batdorf

produced by Richard Feren

Underneath the Awning at the Edge of That Cafe

from the new album "Behold", released Dec. 25, 2022

music & vocals: Richard Feren
music & lyrics: Craig Koller
vocals & lyrics: Erika Batdorf

produced by Richard Feren

In Your Hand

Hovering

from the new album "Behold"

music: Richard Feren
lyrics & vocals: Erika Batdorf

produced by Richard Feren

These Dark Hours

A piece from my soundtrack to the 1922 silent film Nosferatu. A ship arrives with no one aboard but a dead captain found lashed to the deck.

Ghost Ship (from soundtrack to Nosferatu)

A suspenseful cue I composed for Hrant Alianak's feature film A Trip To The Island.
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Gun (from A Trip To The Island soundtrack)

I can find anywhere you go.
Anyone who is hiding you.
Why do you run away? 
Why are you scared? 
If only the rain could wash away your sorrows
And get under your skin and bones.

You should let moon in the blooming house
With silverlight trust may grow inside
Covering the wood in veil,
You would sleep tight
No terrifying dreams,
No awful, ghastly thoughts. 
Just a peaceful breeze swaying your hair.

Humming a lullaby, 
Holding back your cry
I kept you asleep, 
I was the guardian of your peace.

RAINSPILL

Title track from "The Sickness" EP, originally composed in 2014, long before the covid pandemic.

The Sickness EP

The Sickness

An early Crimescene track, intended for the "Beyond The Beyond" album but ultimately didn't make the cut. To be included in the eventual "From The Vault" compilation of previously unreleased material.

Thoughts While Falling

A piece from my score to the classic 1922 silent film Nosferatu, illustrating the vampire's arrival by ship in Bremen, stealthily carrying his coffin to his new abode, across the street from Jonathan Harker and his beloved Nina.

A New Neighbour

One of the earliest-ever Crimescene tracks (circa 1995). Although it makes extensive use of digital sampling, there was no sequencing involved, and it was recorded and mixed down on tape. Digitally remastered now by Richard Feren, it remains a seminal Crimescene piece, despite its crude production.

A Rare Case Of Female Haemophilia

A cue I composed for Valerie Buhagiar's feature film IT'S HARD TO BE HUMAN.

The Monk's Tale

My first full feature film score was for the Daniel MacIvor film PAST PERFECT, released in 2002. The opening title music introduced the recurring themes that I derived loosely from the traditional Christmas song "What Is This Fragrance" (a recording of it was used at the end).

Opening Titles (from Past Perfect, 2002)

Composer, sound designer, recording artist, satirist, would-be bon vivant.

Opening Titles (from Past Perfect, 2002)

Richard Feren

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