Gentle Struggles

Melancholic and intimate, featuring a dreamy figure of glockenspiel notes and a light arrangement driven by a piano and a small orchestra. A flute takes over the theme at 1:40 and presents us to a final section slightly more rhythmical with pizzicato strings and playful woodwinds. Great for scenes with a nostalgic and tender yet hopeful feeling.

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Distant Lands

Contemplative and poignant, featuring an ethereal yet moving piano solo figure complemented in the last section by a mellow strings section. Ideal for emotional advertising, romantic movie scenes, and end title sequences.

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Dreamspace, Shared (Suite)

Evocative and hypnotic, featuring mildly dissonant textures beautifully orchestrated for strings. Enigmatic and reflective, charged and dynamic delivering an evolving range of emotions and classical string textures.

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Melancholia

Ethereal and alluring, with dissonant injections of strings and a seductive intro that steadily grows both in intensity and instrumentation. Several counterpoints and variations caged in a medium-big orchestral arrangement ideal for sad and melancholic sequences.

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Sad Infinity

Dreamy and delicate, featuring soothing woodwinds and a melancholic celeste that create a rarefied and nocturne sense of uneasy fascination. Ideal for alluring and seductive scenes with a dark and possibly supernatural edge.

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Blue Star

Intensely sad but not lost in its entirety, with soothing background strings and a yearning dark violin solo theme that unravel otherworldly laments upon the inevitable realisation of an unbearable truth. Will suit emotional and melancholic scenes.

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Green Landscape

Calm but decisive, a celebration of orchestral softness with enticing brushes of harp and piano, and mellow balzato strings. It releases its rhythmical structure at 1:50 and then builds again to accommodate a compelling coda with full orchestral power. On the epic side, leaning to Hollywood style romance stories, travelling documentaries and resolution sequences.

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Reminiscences

With troubled chords and unsettling textures, a full orchestra is summoned to establish a mysterious and hypnotic sense of longing. First violins deliver the main theme at 0:38, leading to an emotional opening in the middle section. Heavy percussions add layers of dramatic intensity for a compelling final crescendo. Suitable for dramas, introspective yet disturbing scenes a la Roque Banos’ The Machinist soundtrack.

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Sunrise

Melancholic and sweet, with a sense of yearning and heavy use of exotic interpolation of chords and melodies. Powerful as a big orchestra can be, it gains momentum at 1:20, always keeping the stakes high as a complicated love story would be. Will suit exotic and big Hollywood love stories, with ultimate love as overarching theme. The English Patient, Out of Africa, and even Indiana Jones are welcome here.

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Wistful Piano (Suite)

Scattered piano melody with electronic effects over a subtle ambient synth drone. Background drone grows in waves of atmospheric noise. The noise grows stronger and harsher, almost swallowing the piano notes. Another string drone swells to finish. Introspective, melancholy and reflective, suiting a moment of pause, reflecting on the past and contemplating the future. Suitable for thoughtful ending in a TV/Doc.

w/ synths: Added other-wordly synth drones and wonky sustained synth lines, giving an off-kilter edge.

w/ strings: Regal orchestral string arrangement on top of piano melody from the start, string lines intersecting in a looping counterpoint.

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