Toy pianos, xylophones and harmoniums evoke a mischievous dancing simian. Atonal elements make this a vaguely sinister piece. Something is going wrong in the toy world.
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Tag Archives: Tension
Making Jack a Dull Boy
Dark atmospheric piano elements with tambourine and other percussion. Grooving and dissonant, building with tense octave notes. Sounds like: Tom Waits’ soundtrack to Down By Law.
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Kentish Plover
Triplet-feel dramatic orchestral refrain, with soft voices and repeating phrases. This is hilarious and highly dramatic at the same time. Perfect for an episode of Bagpuss, if Bagpuss was trying to fly a biplane to the moon. Includes real violins, voices, kazoo, accordion, wooden percussion and a whole lot of interesting phrasing.
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SOS til Memphis (Instrumental)
Haunting pious and atmospheric beginning with echoing vocals developing into sparse electronic rhythm with synth and organic fx. Sophisticated, thoughtful and restrained EDM.
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Alarm In Shadow
Haunting and hard hitting intro music reminiscent of DJ Shadow. Heartbeat rhythm, warning, emergency, hospital drama. Medium Pace.
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Wicked Tuna
Rousing war horns intro, industrial beats and bass line develop into searing synth arpeggios, with ghostly vocals rising to a dark crescendo.
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Crossing the Line
Low tense piano with eerie string effects creates an air of hushed expectancy, leading to a section hesitant movement, held breath and finally warm deep achievement, with hesitant but strong orchestral strings. Beautiful, majestic and yearning. Slow.
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Fly Fly Baby (Suite)
Serious, strong, punchy and driving new wave electronic music – reminiscent of “Disparate Youth” by Santigold. Medium Pace.
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Other Lives – Florida Room
Full band, high powered indie rock – emotive, pulsing beginning to catchy stabs in verse, head nodding chorus, intense bridge and soaring final chorus
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Letters To Berlin – Florida Room
Full band playing high powered indie rock – emotive, catchy riff in chorus, big bridge and finale
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