Commercial, Branding & Theme Music
Being Baptist
We were commissioned to compose a bespoke soundtrack to a short film made by the Baptist Union of Great Britain in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Baptist Church. The emphasis of the film was to look back at the history of the denomination and to see how it has influenced today’s Baptist Church, so in-keeping with this theme, we decided to take some traditional hymns and bring them up-to-date with modern instrumentation and production. We’re pleased to share a show-reel of the final film score in the player below.
Storynory
Storynory is a website & podcast which has been producing free audio stories for children since 2005, and we have been producing songs to accompany their stories for nearly 7 years now. We always thoroughly enjoy our collaborations with their songwriter Gabriella Burnel. It’s always a dream to have a client whose brief is just ‘be as creative as you like!’ and we’re pleased to share some examples of these creations in the player on below.
Baku 2017
We had an inspiring start to 2017, working at Abbey Road Studios with the creative team of the Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games. We spent the month of December 2016 preparing click tracks, Pro Tools sessions, and producing demo tracks for all the music for the opening & closing ceremonies of the games in May. Joe was lucky enough to go along to assist at sessions with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in January, and traditional instrumentalists then added their instrumentation at a studio in Baku.
Common Ground
Portobello Film Festival
Swan Song
We were pleased to orchestrate and produce this version of the theme from Swan Lake for our friends at Storynory, with lyrics written & performed by their songwriter Gabriella Burnel, to accompany an audiobook of the folk tale for The Dorchester Collection. The audiobook was to feature on their children’s entertainment channel on TVs in suites throughout their collection of hotels.