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Dustin O'Halloran, Volker Bertelmann And Jeff Beal Invited To Join Academy
26th June 2018
Dustin O'Halloran, Volker Bertelmann and Jeff Beal are amongst forty-four individuals invited to join the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Dustin and Volker received an Academy Award nomination in 2017 for...
Anne Nikitin Scores Calibre
25th June 2018
Anne Nikitin has scored the debut feature from Matt Palmer, Calibre, which premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival on June 22nd. The film follows two friends who head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip...
New Her Name Is Calla EP Out Now
15th June 2018
Post-rock band Her Name Is Calla release their new EP The Dead Rift on 15th June through Function Records. The EP precedes their forthcoming album, Animal Choir, for which ‘The Dead Rift’ is the lead single. Earlier this year the band also...
The Happy Prince Out Now
15th June 2018
The Happy Prince, scored by Gabriel Yared, is in theatres across the UK as of June 15th. The historical drama depicts the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards...
Michael Nyman McQueen Soundtrack Released
13th June 2018
McQueen, the documentary exploring the life of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, was released theatrically across the UK on Friday 8th June. The music for the feature-length film was provided by Michael Nyman, whose soundtrack...
The Staircase Available On Netflix
8th June 2018
Crime documentary The Staircase, scored by Jocelyn Pook, is now available on Netflix. The series centres around the criminal trial of author Michael Peterson, who was accused of murdering his wife after she was found dead at the bottom of...
Zeal & Ardor Release Stranger Fruit
8th June 2018
Zeal & Ardor have released Stranger Fruit, the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Devil Is Fine. The diverse yet cohesive nature of the sixteen tracks is designed to encourage the listener to dig a little deeper and find their own...
Melissa Parmenter's Genova Score Released
5th June 2018
Melissa Parmenter's score for 2009 feature film Genova has been released as an album via Globe Soundtrack And Score, a division of Universal Music. The music accompanied Michael Winterbottom's intense family drama, which starred Colin...
SWIMM Release Debut Album
5th June 2018
On June 5th, American indie band SWIMM released their debut album Sentimental Porno. The main theme of the album is the anxieties associated with love. Their music pulls influences from a range of genres, culminating in a sound tinged with...
Jack Carty And Gus Gardiner Releasing Hospital Hill
29th May 2018
Jack Carty, the award-winningAustralian singer-songwriter who signed with Music Sales last year, is continuing his run of releases with his upcoming fifth album, Hospital Hill, due for release on June 1st. The ten-song LP is co-written...
Waitrose Christmas Ad Wins British Craft Arrows Award
23rd May 2018
The 2017 Waitrose Christmas Ad, Snowed In, has won a Silver Arrow in the Re-Record category at the 2018 British Craft Arrows. The music for the ad – a reworking of festive favourite ‘Carol Of The Bells’ – was scored by Music Sales composer...
Neil Cowley Trio Releases Spacebound Tapes
21st May 2018
The Neil Cowley Trio have released new EP, Spacebound Tapes, comprising a selection of remixed works from their 2016 album Spacebound Apes. With re-workings by revered acts such as Rival Consoles, Chris Loeffler, Throwing Snow and Vessels...
New Album By Nico Muhly And Thomas Bartlett Available Now
18th May 2018
Music Sales composer Nico Muhly and his longtime friend and collaborator Thomas Bartlett have come together once again to create a new album, Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Muisc, which is available now. This fresh release is made up of...
Hildur Guðnadóttir Scoring HBO's Chernobyl
14th May 2018
Hildur Guðnadóttir will be composing the music for forthcoming TV series Chernobyl, a co-production between HBO and Sky. Written by Craig Mazin, the five-part miniseries dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes...
Mrs Wilson Scored By Anne Nikitin
14th May 2018
Anne Nikitin will be creating the original music for Mrs Wilson, a new original drama for BBC. Award-winning actress Ruth Wilson leas the all-British cast in the series, which is based on the life of her own grandmother. Set between 1940s...
Nico Muhly Interviewed By Guild Of Music Supervisors
4th May 2018
Music Sales composer Nico Muhly recently sat down with the team at the Guild Of Music Supervisors to chat about his work on the BAFTA TV Craft award-nominated series Howards End. They talked about how he got involved in the show, the...
Guy Farley Co-Scores The Real Football Fan Show
1st May 2018
Guy Farley and Craigie Dodds have co-written the music for new Channel 4 series The Real Football Fan Club. Hosted by Robbie Lyle, the series provides supporters with the chance to air their views on the latest twists and turns in the...
Her Name Is Calla Return With The Dead Rift
1st May 2018
Post-rock act Her Name Is Calla have unleashed the video for their new single 'The Dead Rift'. The single precedes the band's forthcoming EP of the same title, released via Function Records on June 15th. They'll be on tour throughout May...
Cannes Film Festival To Present Whitney
24th April 2018
Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Whitney, about the life and career of the late Whitney Houston, will premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, with an original score by Music Sales composer, Adam Wiltzie. Macdonald said of the film that ‘I...
Jocelyn Pook Wins BAFTA TV Craft Award
24th April 2018
Jocelyn Pook's King Charles III score has been awarded the 2018 BAFTA TV Craft Award for Original Music. The Drama Republic production aired on BBC2 in May 2017, an adaptation of Mike Bartlett's earlier play which also featured original...