No Time for Caution Free download on SoundCloud. This music is from one of the more intense scenes of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. The scene is literally known as No Time for Caution. To this day, it gives me chills. Hans Zimmer’s entire score for Interstellar […]

Joaillerie By 1998, Gustavo Santaolalla was already an iconic musician and producer in the Latin alternative rock scene. His album, Ronroco, launched his reinvention as a film composer. The song, Iguazu, was used to great effect in, The Insider. Following 1998’s Ronroco, Camino is a […]

“At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man (Robert Johnson) made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized […]

Young and Beautiful Free download on SoundCloud. This song is from The Great Gatsby (2013) starring Leonardo DiCaprio. I don’t normally get into Baz Luhrmann films, but The Great Gatsby was excellent. I love this song by Lana Del Rey. Her singing is intently insecure […]

28 Weeks Later Free download on SoundCloud. 28 Weeks Later was first film that truly horrified me. I left the theater with a sense of creeping dread and hopelessness. Don’t get me wrong, it was excellent. I just needed to watch a comedy — or […]

On the Nature of Daylight Free download on SoundCloud. The post-classical genre is a (popular but controversial) genre of contemporary music that combines classical and electronic music. Usually, the music is slower and emotive. The top composers of this genre have found a home for […]

Learn more about my Create Your Own Arrangement series The G Position The G Position is the second of my Create Your Own Arrangement series. The first was the The C Position. The C Position is the easiest to use and most of (composer) Hans […]

Learn more about my Create Your Own Arrangement series The C Position The C Position is the first part of my series. The second is The G Position. The C Position is the easiest to use and most of (composer) Hans Zimmer’s music lends itself […]

Interstellar Free download on SoundCloud. Interstellar this must be Hans Zimmer’s greatest complete score. While Man of Steel, The Dark Knight, and Gladiator have their selections — the entire score of Interstellar is wondrous and immensely listenable. This piece is known as, First Step and […]

No Time To Die Free download on SoundCloud. There’s some smart and slick musicality with No Time To Die. It’s like a computer algorithm generated the theme — combining the cultural zeitgeist of Billie Eilish with the last 25 Bond themes. While I’m a huge […]

Casino Royale Free download on SoundCloud. Casino Royale and You Know My Name are the best Bond film and theme song period. Daniel Craig’s 2006 debut coupled with the rock muscularity of Chris Cornell was pitch perfect. While the Quantum of Solace has grown on […]

Free download on SoundCloud. Man of Steel The title of this piece is: What Are You Going to Do When You’re Not Saving the World? It’s otherwise known as the title theme of Man of Steel, by composer Hans Zimmer. I performed this on YouTube […]