Travelling Home for Christmas

music commissioned for the global Hyundai 2011 campaign advert

Hyundai "Summer"

Track made for a Lincoln cars heritage film
Courtesy of A-Bomb music

Kings Of The Road

Music made for a short film by human trafficking charity Hope For Justice.

Freedom_Hope for Justice

A little twisted magical piece written for 2013 cadburys advert.

Joyville_Cadbury's

Sci/fi short film directed by Rob McLellan. Soon to be an MGM feature film.
Score by Vanessa James

Charango track used for Google Russia advert 2013.
Courtesy of Siren Music.

Stella

- A shimmering turns uplifting version of Hans Zimmers theme. Reworked the chords/mode, changed tempo, sampled/played to create the atmospheric tones, world instruments, vocal, electronic guitar swells & quick acoustic strums. 
- HZ stems used: perc, trumpet, solo vocal, tuned perc. 
- vanessajames.music@gmail.com. 
- Thanks for everyone's support and likes. Good luck to everyone!

Discovering Destiny_Bleeding Fingers Contest

- A laid back, ambient electro take on Hans Zimmers theme. Re-arranged chords, sampled lots of FX like piano knocks/hammers or reversed guitar swells to create atmospheric elements, used gamalan tones, sub bass (forget it laptop speakers!), custom made drum kit.
- HZ stems used: trumpet (re-mixed). 
- vanessajames.music@gmail.com. 
- good luck to all the great entries out there!

Stargaze_Bleeding Fingers Contest

- A darker, synth based take on Hans Zimmers DD theme using eventide guitar delay pedals on opening synth and fat kit sound. 
- HZ stems used: perc, synth and edited string stem. 
- vanessajames.music@gmail.com.
Best of luck to everyone!

Dark Passenger_Bleeding Fingers Contest

- A more dramatic/urgent take on Hans Zimmers DD theme.  
- HZ stems used: trumpet, perc, woodwinds (looped).
- www.vanessajamesmusic.com

Obsession_Bleeding Fingers Contest

Presidential Day

Building Courage

Score by Vanessa James. Created for the National Geographic 'Woman Raised By Monkeys' documentary, Dec 2013
[featuring Colombian Gaita low flute, Native Indian whistle, gamalan metalic bowls, thumb piano, hang drum, and a sprinkling of hums]

Land Of Treasures

Score by Vanessa James. Written for the National Geographic 'Woman Raised By Monkeys' documentary, Dec 2013


Return to The Jungle

Score by Vanessa James. Written for the National Geographic 'Woman Raised By Monkeys' documentary. Dec 2013

The Beginnings Of

Music written for an American Express animation advert. Pitch only. Courtesy of Siren Music UK.
Latin, Movies, Fun. 

Frogs and Frocks

Composed by Vanessa James for 'Baileys'. 
Pitch only. Courtesy of A-Bomb music.

Gold Velvet

Music written for sci-fi VR game trailer Thunderhead. 

Thunderhead

Trailer score for this years Wimbledon VR experience with Andy Murray.

Directed by Rob McLellan of Hammerhead VR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF6eME_vr6M

 


Feel Wimbledon

Evening in Paris_Ristorante

Chocolate Fun Factory_Kinder

Vanessa Forero is a film/TV composer, once based in London, now scores from her self-build studio in the mountains of Colombia. Since 2004 she has worked on a mixture of feature films, shorts, documentaries and adverts, with film festival and cinema screenings as well as broadcasts on major channels world wide, working with the Liverpool Philharmonic and winning 'best score' from the Hollywood mini-cinema awards for sci-fi movie 'ABE'.

Aside from scoring, Forero also produces her own records, the solo piano album 'Paintings on Piano' as well as her south-americana singer-songwriter artist side, touring worldwide and playing from the backs of Colombian bars to Abbey Road studio 1. Her last 16-date tour sold-out within a few weeks, now a follow-up tour is coming to the UK this autumn.  

Forero is also co-author of the book she wrote about her mother "The Girl With No Name", which became the National Geographic documentary: "Woman Raised By Monkeys", for which Forero scored part of the soundtrack. A movie is in talks.

Vanessa Forero_Composer/Producer

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