Run For Your Life, the new single from Bertie Blackman is available digitally today.  From the first major-chord chorus, Run for Your Life triggers the very sensations Bertie Blackman is singing about: your feet pound the pavement, the air rushes into your lungs, the blood pumps through your veins. It recalls the dizzy highs of a John Hughes movie, The Breakfast Club or Pretty in Pink: the blast of synths and the jubilant fist in the air. 


“I grew up listening to that kind of music,” Bertie laughs. “My mum was a real ’80s chick and would jump on a little trampoline in the morning when I was getting ready for school, blasting aerobic pop really loud. It’s one of my favourite memories.”
We’re used to Bertie Blackman zagging when we expect her to zig. Her previous release, Pope Innocent X, was an introspective affair, delving into Blackman’s bohemian childhood and personal life. Fifth album, The Dash, out in October 2014, will be the polar opposite. “I want to make people feel good,” she says. “I had a fire in my belly to write songs that represent all the things I love about music.”


With this first single, Bertie enlisted Louis Schoorl as a co-writer and sent it off to be mixed by Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). The rest of the album will be a buffet of co-writers and producers, which is a ruse by Bertie to bring herself out of her shell.


“It’s my coming-of-age pop record,” she says of The Dash. “Big hooks, big vocals, direct feelings. It feels like I’ve cleaned out all those cobwebs and it can stand in its own right. I’m not hiding behind anything.”

Run For Your Life

This track is the score to an upcoming trailer for Star of The Guardians https://www.facebook.com/staroftheguardians - a movie based on the book series by author Margaret Weis


Star of The Guardians Trailer

Rousing music  by John Williams from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Performed by the Vienna Synchron Orchestra, Conrad Pope, conductor. Recorded at the Vienna Symphonic Library's Synchron Stage, Dennis Sands, engineer.

Indiana Jones Swashbuckler/ The Adventures of Mutt, Vienna Synchron Orchestra

Buy it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/binary/id1223874661
Also on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google


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

Buy it on iTunes

Tico Walks Off

The next Moonshine release comes courtesy of Australian-based Erin McKimm aka Sekkleman. It's been over three years since his last full release and we are very excited to show you what he's been up to.

Order the 10" vinyl or digital from the following stores
vinyl:
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digital:
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Artist: Sekkleman ft Razaman, Bazza, Baptiste
Title: Descending Babylon / 
Format: 10" vinyl / digital
Release date: 17th August 2018
Cat Nr: MS043

Tracklist:
A. Descending Babylon ft Razaman, Bazza
B. Dancehall Graveyard ft Baptiste

MS043 - Sekkleman - Descending Babylon ft Razaman & Bazza / Dancehall Graveyard ft Baptiste

This was my final scoring cue for the Palomar Film Music Workshop 2018. I had an incredible time learning from the amazing composers and writing this cue for a short commercial that is both quirky and fun!

Welcome To Joyville

After more than a decade of composing for film and TV, composer Thomas E Rouch has taken time out to record his first solo piano record. With a deft ear for simple yet haunting melodies, The Pathfinder has a sound that is both intimate and emotionally charged. Dancing between tense and melancholy arpeggios to spacious textural pieces that explore the space between the notes, this record tells a compelling and personal story.

01 The Pathfinder

Demo Composed and Produced by Leo Zarucky

To Purchase this loop library go to https://www.thomaserouch.com/store

On The Lowdown - Felt Piano Loop Demo

Thomas E Rouch