About Me
Daniel Pemberton writes lots of music for TV, films, videogames and stuff like that.
Some of it is on here and some of it is also at www.danielpemberton.com.
MONSTER MOVES: THE SOUNDTRACK is coming.......
1812 Recordings are releasing a download album of the songs and sounds featured on the TV series MONSTER MOVES real soon.. updates to follow! It should be hitting iTunes, DRM free of course, any time now...
In other stuff i've just composed a load of music for a number of TV dramas including BBC's Iraq war serial OCCUPATION (Starring James Nesbitt and Stephen Graham) and the one off BBC film BEST: A MOTHER'S STORY. I'm currently writing a rather mental period drama-goes-glam rock score to a fantastic new BBC2 series called DESPERATE ROMANTICS which should start airing in mid-July... Very very pleased with how the music is going so far.. Check it out if you can..
LITTLE BIG PLANET is coming....... and so is a soundtrack album!
....a lot of new tracks, a few old ones....
I've just completed writing the main intro theme and a load of other music for the amazing new Media Molecule Playstation 3 game LittleBigPlanet. Alongside the fantastic intro, designed by the ever talented Rex Crowle and featuring the lovely tones of Stephen Fry, there's a load of other tracks I've done for the game. A couple of these are taken from the TVPOPMUZIK album while the others haven't really been heard properly before. A download only soundtrack album "Little BIG Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By LittleBIGPlanet" will be released on iTunes and all other major digital platforms on December 15th via 1812 Recordings. It'll feature a new, extended version of the opening track "The Orb Of Dreamers", all the Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra tracks in the game and also a few bits that'd didn't make the final version as well. Hunt it out or sign up at www.danielpemberton.com for more info and free stuff!!
The music I wrote for the game was recently nominated for a BAFTA for Best Original Soundtrack. Hurrah! But it didn't win. BOO!
TVPOPMUZIK IS OUT NOW.......
....CLICK HERE TO GET IT FROM iTUNES..
TVPOPMUZIK, the first album from THE DANIEL PEMBERTON TV ORCHESTRA arrives in shops on JULY 2 2007 on 1812 Recordings. It features reworked and wacked out instrumentals from shows such as HELLS KITCHEN, PEEP SHOW, BAD LADS ARMY, SUBURBAN SHOOTOUT, THAT'LL TEACH EM and many many more..
The 21 songs include turntablists scratching up military band records, kazoos, a massive string section, old Gibson guitars, whistling, extreme auto tune, cellos, punk drum kits, synthesized choirs, rulers, my mouth, beatboxing, crazy keyboard solos, ambient washes, trumpets, kitchen utensils, sampled classical records, accordions, parrot noises, bits of metal I recorded on a farm in France, Icelandic vocalists, a folk band, a cardboard box, farfisa organs, a grand piano, a badly recorded ukulele and a lot more silly noises. It is probably the oddest record you will hear all year. Here's a rather rubbish animation announcing that fact, backed by the album track 'Foxy Cat'. Get ready..
CLIP FROM NAPOLEON ORCHESTRAL RECORDING SESSION
This is a clip from the recent recording session for Napoleon, a recent BBC drama starring Tom Burke and Rob Brydon, I have been composing for. We had a 73 piece orchestra (49 strings!) and recorded the score in Prague in June 2007. Unfortunately this video sounds pretty rubbish as it is shoddily edited together and also uses the crappy microphone from the camcorder. But you get the general gist of it.
....and here's what it looks and sounds like in the final film:
A BIG SONG ABOUT A BIG CHURCH BEING MOVED ON THE BACK OF A BIG LORRY
Here is a clip from the upcoming Five/National Geographic series MONSTER MOVES. The director had asked me to write a musical number for the end of the show, which is about people moving giant buildings hundreds of miles - not your normal show to end on a song and dance number. I thought he was mad and that no po-faced TV exec would ever let it happen. But they did. Wow. Here it is. It is very very silly and very very over the top. Special thanks to the 40 people strong Manning Chorus, USA.
DROPPING OF THE BOMB SEQUENCE FROM HIROSHIMA
Here's an excerpt from the BBC film Hiroshima which I scored. The film recently won Best International Documentary at the EMMYS, which of course, was all thanks to music. Really. This cue features a 70 piece orchestra, multiple duduk flutes and ebowed guitars, electronics and samples from my watering can. This version has also been edited slightly to remove the narration from the very end of the sequence, which is a bit naughty I suppose but it has more musical impact that way I think.
