Percussive build. Growing layers of drums and rattling percussion, creating a wide-reaching rhythmic picture. Woodblocks cut through the blanket of drums momentarily before the uniform pounding resumes. Atmospheric, determined and full of anticipation, perfect music for a ceremonial event, a soundtrack to an epic, other-wordly ritual or tribal gathering onscreen.
Tag Archives: Percussion
Lunch On Us
Synth organ track. Dreamy, retro chords and motorik bass with rhythmic acoustic guitar and plonky glockenspiel melodies. Happy, uplifting and carefree, gradual crescendo with orchestral strings and upbeat drums. Sound like Au Revoir Simone, perfect for fun, family adverts or indie TV films/dramas.
Tobinesque
Subtle, ambient intro of sparse percussion and synth melody, foreboding and dark, building to a harder sound with pizzicato orchestral strings and 90s trip hop beats. Slightly glamourous, exotic and classy, like a modern James Bond film, perfect for an action/thriller or exciting, potentially dangerous TV scene.
Uncut (Suite)
Slow, foreboding piano track with orchestral strings, percussion and electronic beats. Tense, dark and foreboding, like a wintry evening, driving in the countryside. Grown in intensity as more electronic beats are added. Brooding piano throughout, perfect for an atmospheric TV/Film scene with a hint of hope.
Interludes feature piano only.
Intro and Outros feature piano and electronic beats.
Pre Title 3 – Expedition Whisky
Cinematic orchestral track. Choppy, anticipatory strings, suspenseful violins and tense, driving percussion. Nerve-wracking action film music, dark and foreboding, perfect for a Batman film. Comes to a slightly more hopeful conclusion as the hero makes an appearance.
Extract Carpediem 1
Short exerpt. Dramatic, powerful piercing orchestral strings and pounding percussion. Serious, dramatic and regal, perfect for an intriguing, thrilling short advert, a mystery in 20 seconds.
Expedition Whisky
Orchestral track with electronics. Woodwind intro with foreboding string section. Tinkling bells followed by dynamic, suspenseful woodwind, building timpani, plodding and threatening. Electronic section, synth and faraway beats, accompanied by incongruous woodwind and tense orchestral strings. Strange, intriguing and scattered, a mystery journey through a dark and confusing forest straight out of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Fun and freaky, for unusual advert or quirky onscreen moments.
We Wor
Tense orchestral build. Industrial percussion introduces an orchestral blast. Rumbling, atmospheric and action packed, cinematic bombast to suit suspenseful TV drama and epic film scenes.
Travel Pakistan
Orchestral string track. Dramatic sustained string build with scattered, erratic piano notes. Triumphant string and percussion build with slight dischord. Epic, hopeful and pastoral, suitable for TV/Film/Doc scenes of hope and determination.
To Quetta
Frenetic, rhythmic percussion over tense, sparse piano chords and Middle Eastern-style melancholy strings and scatterings of oud. Strange, unsettling and sad, suitable for a tense, searching documentary, or disorientating TV/Film scene.