Monday 25 January 2010

FANTAZIUM COMPOSER TOBY CHU

COMING MARCH 2010 FIRED EARTH MUSIC'S 3rd ALBUM
FANTAZIUM: FAMILY ADVENTURE / FANTASY


Open the door to a magical, enchanted wonderland and discover a world of fantasy, heroic adventure, family fun, romance, humor and mischief.

As FIRED EARTH MUSIC prepares to deliver it’s third album in March, we bring you some background on the composer Toby Chu.

Acclaimed Film, TV and Game score composer, Toby Chu has worked with Harry Gregson-Williams for the past decade on Family Adventure titles such as Shrek and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Independently, Chu has been credited as a composer for music on the movies Déjà Vu, Domino, and Team America: World Police along with many others.

In addition, he continues to write music for games including the Metal Gear series and recently composed the score for the critically acclaimed FX television series The Riches.


FANTAZIUM:
The album will contain 11 cues of heroic, positive adventure and fantasy for those big family titles, animations and video games.

ORCHESTRAL FX PACK:
The Fantazium Orchestral FX Pack can be licensed free of charge when used in conjunction with a main cue from the Fantazium album.

Friday 15 January 2010

Malibu Magazine: Cultural Divide




January, 2010

FIRED EARTH MUSIC is the brand-new label providing premium music cues excluisvely for the motion picture advertising community. The Santa Monica-based British company is working with a group of well-heeled and award-winning trailer music composers to poroduce a growing music library available for licensing in motion picture advertising campaigns. The company's dramatic rock-orchestral launch collection, Vulcano, was composed by British Academy Award-winning Troels Folmann. Folmann has specialized in emotional and epic orchestral scores for feature trailers, among them Valkyrie, X-Men 3, Spiderman 3, 10,000 B.C. and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Slasher, hostage, mystery, abduction, torture, sex and sci-fi themes are all on the slab in FIRED EARTH MUSICs second album release last month. Cyanite was composed by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, whose cues have been used on campaigns for Hannibal Rising, Hellboy II, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Underworld: Evolution. The library is continuing to grow with quarterly releases aimed at specific movie genres by some of the best trailer composers around. To sample the tracks visit www.FIREDEARTHMUSIC.COM