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Bjorn Lynne

Composer of atmospheric electronic music

About Me

Bjorn Lynne has been a full time composer, producer and sound designer for 10 years. He is originally from Norway, but moved to England in 1995 and has spent most of his music life there. He has now recently moved back to Norway and settled into new house on the seafront in an idyllic small seaside town called Stavern.
Bjorn's music was recently used extensively in the prestigious BBC documentary series "Meet the Ancestors". You can also hear his music in dozens of other TV programs, series and films ("The Oracle", "Vampire Sisters") and in video games ("Worms", "Lemmings" and many many others).Bjorn Lynne has sold more than 10,000 CDs from his personal web site and continues to write music both for fun and for a living. His new album, for release spring 2006, is called "Beneath Another Sky" and is a captivating, atmospheric, dynamic and melodic, musical journey to another world.If you want to buy Bjorn Lynne CDs for personal use, you can do that from Bjorn's own personal CD-shop ( www.lynnemusic.com/cdshop.html ) or from CDBaby ( www.cdbaby.com/group/bjornlynne ) or from download shops such as Rhapsody, iTunes, mp3tunes, MSN Music, etc.
If you would like to license Bjorn's music for use in film, media, games or any other project, you can purchase a royalty-free license for any Bjorn Lynne track from http://www.shockwave-sound.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/22/2006
Band Website: lynnemusic.com
Band Members: Bjorn Lynne: Keyboards, guitars, bass, voice, programming. Occasional guest musicians include Marc Pattison, Mark Robotham, Rebecca Webster and many others.
Influences: Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, The Flower Kings, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Paul Oakenfold, Sven Vath, Andy Pickford, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kitaro, Thievery Corporation, Steve Hackett, Marillion, Brian Eno, Genesis, Dream Theater, Yes, Kit Watkins, Ian Boddy, Rush, The Dead Texan, Nodens Ictus, Christopher Franke, Thomas Newman, Electric Light Orchestra, Chick Corea, Mike Stern, Pat Metheny, Prince, OSI, Symphony X, Eloy, Echolyn, Randy Newman, Clive Nolan, Pendragon, Alfy Betz, Ayreon and
Sounds Like: Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, The Flower Kings, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Paul Oakenfold, Sven Vath, Andy Pickford, David Arkenstone, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kitaro, Melwyn Goodall, Steve Hackett, Marillion, Brian Eno, Genesis, Dream Theater, Yes, Kit Watkins, Ian Boddy, Rush, The Dead Texan, Nodens Ictus, Christopher Franke, Thomas Newman, Electric Light Orchestra, OSI, Eloy, Clive Nolan, Pendragon, Alfy Betz, Ayreon, Enya, Rob Hubbard, Tim Follin
Record Label: LynneMusic
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Undercover now available on CD

I'm happy to announce that Undercover is now available as a CD!"Undercover" is a 14-track album that I have made together with my friend from the Amiga/PC demo-scene, Adam Skorupa, aka Skorpic. The mu...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:49:00 PST

Work in Progress... first signs of life for new Bjorn Lynne CD

Over the past few weeks, I have started to build up some inspiration and ideas for what will eventually be my next solo album!I'm really quite excited about it. For a long time now, I have been workin...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Wed, 16 May 2007 04:25:00 PST

Composing music for the film "Ingebjørg Olavsdatter"

Hello folks... sorry it's been a while since I posted anything on my blog. I'm currently composing music for the Norwegian film project, "Ingebjørg Olavsdatter". This is a part dramatized historical d...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:15:00 PST

My music on The History Channel

The History Channel UK has used my music quite a lot lately. You can now hear my music in the following programmes on The History Channel:THE MASTER: Samurai Sword MasterThe samurai were the members o...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:14:00 PST

New hour of ambient relaxation music, set to Rain ambience

Dear Friends,I'm writing with news of a new "private" music/sound release. I say "private" because it's not really a big official release like my CD "Beneath Another Sky" etc.This is a one-hour uninte...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:14:00 PST

Bjorn Lynne download-shop, with many unique releases

Bjorn Lynne download-shop, with many unique releases Dear friends,I'm pleased to announce the re-opening of my music download shop! It has been open for a couple...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:12:00 PST

New Bjorn Lynne CD released today - Beneath Another Sky

Today, May 8th 2006, I am very proud and excited to announce the release of my new album: Beneath Another Sky !I have been working on this CD, in between other projects, since about October 2002....
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Tue, 09 May 2006 12:59:00 PST

Download music from Worms Open Warfare

Sony and THQ have released the Team17 Software developed game "Worms Open Warfare" for Sony PSP and Nintendo DS, for which I composed and produced the music (ingame music and menu music), and composed...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:48:00 PST

Lions Gate Films chooses Bjorn Lynne music for Blu-Ray menus

    Lions Gate Films will be using my music for the menu-systems on all titles in their first batch of movie releases on the new Blu-Ray format, which includes such titles as "Lord...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:00:00 PST

Music for Nintendo DS game "Worms Open Warfare"

Team17 Software and THQ have released the game "Worms Open Warfare" on the Nintendo DS. I composed the music for this NDS game and delivered it with Nintendo DS music replayer code.The music was first...
Posted by Bjorn Lynne on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:25:00 PST