Composer / Producer / Guitarist
In what has become a tradition on this site - it's been a while since my last post. But plenty has been happening in the brand new studio this year... with the exception of a 5 month-or-so gap where I was renovating a house. The main thing is that an album I was producing last …
Congratulations to Athos - brothers Anthony and Demetri Kastellani - on the release of their debut album 'To Know Where It's Going': a lush and transportive exploration of the brothers' Cypriot background - part ambient, part folk. I played a small part on a couple of tracks helping out with woodwind and brass arrangements and …
In the past few months I've had a handful of people contact me asking where they can download the 'Pure Psaltery' sample library I released back in 2016. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or there's a genuine dearth of psaltery samples out there, but I realised that the link on my Bandcamp no …
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Honestly, this wasn't a new year's resolution! Whilst working on my yearly update of the website over the past day or two, I impulsively decided to start writing on my blog again - not because I think anyone is particularly hankering to see it return, but because in a strange, journaling kind of way it …
Continue reading "Return of the Blog and a 2022 retrospective"
Excellent UK music software company Spitfire Audio recently hosted a competition for composers to score a short NASA film using only the free version of their LABS Choir (a series of free virtual instruments I reviewed not too long ago - spoiler: they're really good). I only discovered the competition a couple of days before …
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Take a look at the website for a new film from Director/Writer Ryan Garry, currently being shot around Merseyside and the Wirral. This indie feature takes inspiration from big budget legends like The Lord of the Rings and the Marvel Cinematic universe, and has set its own production sights just as high with custom made …
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Welcome! The new site is now live, with a general emphasis on simplification compared to the old one and a new site-wide player that has some examples of my previous work. Please contact me if something seems broken! I have been somewhat away from doing soundtracks this year as my time has been mostly spent …
Hello again, it has been a while since I posted on the blog, hasn't it? I tend to just get on with things and the thought of posting updates on blogs and social media comes to me after the fact. One of my resolutions for this year was to get better at that...better late than …
I'm currently in the midst of one of those frustrating but exciting passages of time - one in which lots has been happening but it's not yet all ready for presentation - and my knack for taking on more projects than is wise reaches critical mass as summer arrives, and my music students go on …
Following on from the successful performances in Liverpool and London for the Being Human Festival 2016, the Liverpool Players have been invited to return to the capital and show their live storytelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic once again. This time it will be courtesy of the esteemed and historic British Academy at their Literature Week 2017, …
Continue reading "The Little Mermaid at the British Academy Literature Week"
Alex Cottrell 