RECORDING NOTES
Recording this album must come pretty high up in my list of the top 100
most fun things you can do in a vertical orientation!
Whilst on holiday with my
family in Disneyland, Paris, I was pleased to hear a fair number of my
tracks being used on the Disneyland Hotel TV channels. I was also really
chuffed when one of my tracks ‘Encounter’ was used on the advert for the
‘Space Mountain’ ride appearing on all the video releases of ‘The Lion
King’ and ‘Pocahontas’. However, I had up to this point never recorded
any music specifically for children’s imagination, magic, fantasy and
the like for the DeWolfe library. So when Warren DeWolfe asked me if I
would like to do a project along these lines I jumped at the
opportunity. I consider myself a full-time dad, part-time composer, so I
thought I had all the requisite experience for the job. I loved
recording this album, and the atmosphere during the orchestral sessions
with the London Telefilmonic was fantastic. They seemed to be really
enjoying the music and I hope this comes across. Many of the musicians
were involved in the recording of the score for ‘The Return of the King’
(the last of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) at the time, and I think my
album was a bit of light relief for them!
I have always been a big fan
Disney soundtracks, particularly those of Alan Menken (‘Beauty and the
Beast’, ‘Pocahontas’ and many more), and one of my earliest memories is
of going to see ‘Fantasia’ at the cinema.
I have included some photos
from the recording sessions. Two very talented young ladies, (both
friends of my daughter) are featured on the album, Freya recorded all
the harp parts and Becky sang the lead vocal on ‘This Magical Night’.
http://www.telefilmonic.co.uk
