Game Of Thrones: The Musical
It was my great please to produce music for Game Of Thrones: The Musical a parody now playing in Los Angeles. Soundtrack album available. Movie-Blogger Original article here.
Soundtrack album available on cdbaby.com
Music
Profile Video – SonicBox
I’ve enjoying streaming live on SonicBox.com. The profile video they created for your truly is pretty neat methinks.
Tightening The Script
Spending a bit of time today working on the script for sexwithghosts. It’s a micro-budget poltergeist horror movie starring my better half, Natasha Blasick, and written, directed and scored by yours truly. This is going to be a lean, mean little horror tale. Still, there must be words on the page in the form of a script. It’s all in my head. Major parts are in the computer. Seven songs are already recorded. But, until there’s a full script there won’t be a full movie.
There’s a goal of having at least part of it ready to screen at the Blood And Babes Comic Con in Long Island, NY Sept 12-14. Natasha and I will be there for three days of meeting new friends and Natasha signing autographs as us sharing the word about our movie.
sexwithghosts – Main Title Song
This is the main title song for the horror movie Natasha Blasick and I are creating. Somehow, some way we’re planning on completing the film on time to screen sexwithghosts at the Blood And Babes Con this Sept 12-14 in Long Island. Two more songs are nearly ready and a forth is written. It is very fun to play with the macabre sonic garden.
For this song Natasha and I formed a side project called Wtch & Wzrd. There will most likely more songs from Wtch & Wzrd as the this movie develops.
Charm And Pizazz – Lead Sheet
Charm And Pizazz is a frothy Rat Pack-ish mid tempo swinger I wrote with my jazz trio, Hollywood Rhythm Kings, in mind. Give it a read through.
Lead sheets are the tried and true way to “record” one’s song. I used to be more lazy about making lead sheets. Over time I’ve seen the error of my ways and revel at how great a tool it is for communicating. Rock and rollers usually do things more by ear. But it’s easy to forget lyrics or chords if a song gets moth-balled for a while. The age old method of notation is hard to beat.
Jazz, Music, Song, Songwriting
Ladies Of Tampa Submitted For Oscar Consideration
Ladies Of Tampa has been submitted for Oscar consideration. It’s a first for me and a real thrill. Even just being submitted. Many thanks and props to my co-writers Matthew McConaughey and Frankie Pine. This cute little song was so fun and easy to create.I was on set when Matthew McConaughey performed the song. It was a big deal for me. He had to breathe fire right in the next shot. But I had a buzz all day just from watching our song get filmed.
Matthew can hit some really low notes. For me to sing it, I have to transpose it from E up to A. But since I don’t really have ladies in Tampa it hasn’t been much of an issue.
Music really is some kind of fun.
Calling All Snowflakes
Natasha and I are going public and announcing Snowflakes, our brand new music duo which includes myself on guitar and vocals and the multi-talented Natasha Blasick on bass and vocals. The fret markers on her Daisy Rock bass, being shaped like snowflakes, inspired Natasha to come up with the name. Humans, like snowflakes, are unique creations each and every one.
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Watching the Grammy Awards earlier this year got my jones going to perform live again. I try to think win-win when it comes to our own entrepreneurial projects so there’s something in it for both of us. We’ve got several movie projects in various stages of development. But the call of jamming beats loudly in my breast.
One by one I’ve written songs that work well for our particular strengths. Natasha made her live debut on bass a couple of weeks ago with one Snowflakes song. She looked like a bass master.
A few days ago at breakfast she asked why we don’t have a song about Snowflakes. Brilliant idea!! The chorus practically wrote itself. This feels like the right time to share our work in progress as a pop group with the rough demo of the Calling All Snowflakes by Snowflakes.