Pre-release from new album 'Divoc' which slated for release on 1st November 2021 as a tribute to those who have suffered loss during the panademic. Music of different genres that express hope and courage.

After Its Gone

Some tunes inspired by the 1923 South Carolina 'Charleston'

Charlestons and a gradually more blurry party

Thoughts on the passing of a close family member of the same age.

Time To Stand Still

End of Year Reflection 2021

BBC Natural World. Forbes Henderson: Acoutsic Guitar Mike Taylor: Flutes and Panpipes. All all other instruments are Fairlight CMI and a bit of Roger!

Paracas Medley 2015 Release

Vocal recorded in Box in 1994 for the Granada TV series 'God Bless America' and thought I'd do something a little different after seeing Ruby singing with Jools Holland at the Queen's Jubilee Concert.

MAYBE Negro Spiritual featuring Ruby Turner

Patrick Fleming's inspiring drama / documentary for CH4 was a dream commission for a composer. As with so many historical narratives there are defining moments and this piece is just one of those. Rather than concede to defeat Hannibal, who had crossed mountains with elephants (the ultimate calvary horse deterrent!) and totally outsmarted the Romans, took his own life. I did not write this without shedding a tear...

Hannibal of Carthage Ultimate Triumph

My favourite producer / director to work with is probably Timothy Copestake (I hope he's blushing now!) and we always tried to 'push the boat out'. Test of Time for CH4 was a complicated re-writing of the chronology of Egypt to marry up with events in the Old Testament by David Rohl. Genius. The sonic 'leitmotifs' was the detuned circular motion of playing a wine glass (clockface), a circular note 'germ cell' D, Eb, C#, D played on the Fairlight Cor Anglais, a sample of a piano string hit with a sledge hammer plus various loops from percussionist Hossam Ramzy. I had heard his work on Gabriel's score for the Last Temptation of Christ just over the stream from my little studio at Real World. I found some of his playing on a cassette tape, used that in the Fairlight and added my own top percussion parts. So he never came to the studio but I traced him and paid him a session fee in any case. He was surprised and wrote me a lovely letter about honesty!

Test of Time Shifting Egpytian Sands

Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 was first performed in 1805. The development section of the First Movement has haunted me for a long time. The way he builds, arguably one of the first polytonal moments in Classical music with the brass thundering a B natural against an F / Am, and 'scores' in a bar of total silence before an intense closed position string diminished chord is exquisitely dramatic. So, in 1999, I started this piece in homage to that 'moment' and have just finished it, as far as I can, 13 years later.

HEROICA MASTER v2

Jumpy 1920s Jazz Quintet - The Grand (Granada TV)

'Volcano Chasers' - composed and performed by roger bolton (Discovery / TLC)

'Score Bites' / Audio Tool Kit – 06.03.2020

Taking Mica Levi as a reference / starting point by using a slightly disjointed sound palette with small musical gestures. These are all 'dark' in nature, and attempting to evoke the psychological rather than a characters' specific actions. The majority of sounds have been recorded / created specifically for this project. 

1. Confused Love (2'40”)
(Reversed piano motif and agitated / expectant string texture)

2. Nervous Excitement (1'45”)
(Slightly disturbed violin, yearning and with a 'foreign' element)

3. Time is Running Out (1'57”)
(Sporadic, with violin doppler, treated vocal drone, urgent beats)

4. It Might Go Wrong (4'17”)
(Heading towards a climax, second half is action-like and ends with a hint of success)

5. Dangerous Affair (1'52”)
(Contrasting beat-based and string theme)

6. Cautious (2'48”)
(An emotive string / piano theme with 'spikey' percussion and effects)

7. Rejection (2'15”)
(Not pitiful, rather more annoyed with oneself)

8. Regret (2'53”)
(A more traditional 'interconnected' piano theme but interrupted by lonely guitar strumming)

Copyright 2020 Roger Bolton (Principal Voting Member of PRS / MCPS)

Regret 8

Dangerous Affair 5

25 Years Of The Natural World

The Climate Breathes

Early Fairlight Series III demo transferred from cassette tape to MP3, then a tweak in Ozone 8 and a T-Racks plugin. No noise reduction.

French 1988

Security Calls 1988

Not over yet - Covid-19 '999' re-mix

Experienced Film / TV composer who has scored 3 feature films, 37 short films, 94 TV drama episodes, 67 documentaries and 103 title sequences. Collaborations include: David Attenborough, Catherine Lara, Florent Pagny, Ian McKellen, John Hurt, Hans Zimmer, Rachel Portman, Jona Lewie, Will Gregory, Daevid Allen, Youssou N'Dour and Ruby Turner

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