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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...
Kenny Inglis Scores The Cancer Hospital
24th April 2018
Kenny Inglis has scored The Cancer Hospital, a new BBC Scotland factual production set in the Beatson Cancer Centre in Glasgow. This three-part series tells the stories of patients undergoing treatment at the Beatson, showing the work of...
Guy Farley Co-Writes New Tokio Myers Tracks
6th April 2018
Guy Farley Co-Writes New Tokio Myers Tracks Guy Farley has continued his long-term collaboration with Britain’s Got Talent winner Tokio Myers and fellow co-writer Craigie Dodds on two recent projects. The trio have reworked Hubert Parry’s...
2018 TV BAFTA Nominations Announced
5th April 2018
Further to the recent 2018 BAFTA Television Craft nominations, including Original Music nominations for Jocelyn Pook's King Charles III score and Nico Muhly's music for Howards End, the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards have...
The City & The City Music Supervised By Lucy Bright
5th April 2018
Lucy Bright, Director of Music Sales Creative, has music supervised the new BBC2 series The City & The City. Based on the novel by British author China Miéville, the alternative reality crime-drama begins with a dead body found at Bulkya...
C.Diab Releases Exit Rumination
3rd April 2018
Exit Rumination is the sophomore LP from Vancouver's C. Diab, released on March 30th via Injazero Records. Walking the line between ambient and post-rock, the album is a meditative sound exploration for bowed guitar, trumpet, and subtle...
Luke Elliot Releasing New Single
3rd April 2018
On April 20th, Luke Elliot releases his new single 'I Love You (All The Way)'. The track precedes Luke's sophomore full-length album, due out later this year. Listen here
Zeal & Ardor Return With 'Gravedigger's Chant'
3rd April 2018
Creative firebrand Manuel Gagneux has returned with a brand new Zeal & Ardor single. ‘Gravedigger's Chant’ was released on March 30th and serves as an omen of what's to come from his forthcoming second Zeal & Ardor album, Stranger Fruit...
Gabriel Yared Re-Signs To Music Sales
22nd March 2018
Chester Music has signed a new long-term publishing agreement with Gabriel Yared and has also acquired the back catalogue of scores in his Yad Music and Deva Music companies. Included in this agreement are scores to films such as A Royal...
Nico Muhly and Jocelyn Pook nominated for 2018 BAFTA TV Craft Awards
22nd March 2018
The nominations for the 2018 BAFTA TV Craft Awards have been announced and the shortlist for Original Score features two programmes with original scores by Music Sales composers: Howards End Produced by Playground Entertainment for BBC...
A Winged Victory For The Sullen Return For Erased Tapes Anniversary
15th March 2018
In celebration of their 10th anniversary, record label Erased Tapes have released 1+1=X, a set of exclusive music from every artist on the label. The album is unique in that all the tracks were recorded at Vox-Ton – one of the few studios...
Joel Cadbury Scores Winged Bull In The Elephant Case
12th March 2018
Joel Cadbury has scored the latest Performance Live project for BBC Two, Winged Bull In The Elephant Case, which airs on March 17th. During World War II, the National Gallery's art collection was taken for safekeeping to Snowdonia. Winged...
2018 Tribeca Film Festival
8th March 2018
The feature film line-up for the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival was announced March 8th and includes films featuring music by a number of Music Sales composers. Blowin’ Up – directed and written by Stephanie Wang-Breal, with original...
Hold The Sunset Uses 'Have I The Right' As Titles
27th February 2018
New BBC sitcom Hold The Sunset features our composition 'Have I The Right' by The Honeycombs as its opening theme music. Written by Charles McKeown, the series stars as Alison Steadman and John Cleese as a pair of old friends rekindling...
Civilisations Coming To BBC2
26th February 2018
On March 1st, the BBC launches its new art history television series Civilisations, with original music from Tandis Jenhudson. A follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark, the nine-part show is hosted by...
James Jones’ Principia Available Now
26th February 2018
James Jones’ debut album Principia was released on Friday 2nd March. The post-classical collection consists of twelve pieces for orchestra, each inspired by a different creative figure from history, including Sir Isaac Newton, WB Yeats...
Music Sales Partners With Phantom Limb
26th February 2018
Music Sales has partnered with new label management company Phantom Limb in a deal which sees us represent their publishing rights on a worldwide basis. The company, founded by James Vella, offers a range of services across label...
yndi halda releases ‘A Sun-Coloured Shaker’
26th February 2018
Post-rock band yndi halda have returned with their latest track ‘A Sun-Coloured Shaker’. This follows their 2016 release Under Summer and precedes their North American tour, taking place over the next two months. yndi halda will also be...
Critically-Acclaimed Call Me By Your Name Features John Adams’ Works
16th February 2018
Two Music Sales’ works have been included in the soundtrack for the Oscar-nominated coming of age romance Call Me By Your Name. The film, based on a novel by André Aciman and directed by Luca Guadagnino, tells the story of...