Epic North Music

This year started of pretty fast. I had had plans to be up and running with my "Sumeria" album, but it still standing and waiting for a release later this year. But the reason behind this tardiness is simple: we have been hard at work on something possibly very massive.

Paul and I we're drawn into a project not seen in Finland before. That project is called Epic North Music. In short it is an effort to create the most epic film advertising music ever imagined. And it is done with a fully finnish crew. We released our first album "Rising Storm" stacked with 19 earth shattering tracks on 20th of May and the reception has been phenominal!

Trailer Music World has already featured two tracks from our album; one from Tapsa and one from Paul. Both of the have gathered a good deal of listens during the first days so needless to say that we are really excited about the future. Now It's Time for the awesome guys at Time Films to go hard to work and get this project out into the big world!

I leave you with the two tracks featured on Trailer Music World:

Tapsa updated his personal website!

It's been coming for a while, but finally I had the time to update my personal website. Go and have a look!

http://enterthestudios.com/Kuusniemi/

Getting up to speed with, well, a lot of things

Where the heck has this year gone? Today I feel like it's still the beginning of the year, but looking at the calendar reveals that it's almost December. And I've been very absent in my writings here. So I'll make a short summary of what has happened this year.

I'll start with a personal note to some how try to explain my absent minded writing. This has been a big year in regards to personal goings about. I started the year with my grandmothers's funeral. Then I started to plan my wedding which was in the summer. Then when autumn came we bought a new house into which I am just now starting to settle in. So with these things I have been rather busy. But onto Reveltone stuff.

I've posted a couple things here about my big mystery project which I said was going to be released this fall. Well, it got pushed back first to the end of November then finally to February 2013.

In Clear Sight has progressed to the point that the score is mixed (thank you Paul for the excellent work) and is being mastered by Erno. The first master is waiting on my desk for me to listen (which I will do tonight). So the movie is good shape.

I've been working on a few ideas lately. One of them is the idea of rebooting the "Sumeria" concept album which I didn't have much time to finish. I've re-concepted it and will start working on it shortly.

Also next week I'll have an interesting new track coming along. So stay tuned for more...

Living the quiet life

Yeah. Right.

Times have definitely not been quiet. I've been busy with two projects lately. The first one is the mystery project I've blogged and even shown you a video clip about. But I won't talk about that today and I'll focus on the other major thing taking up my time currently. I'm writing the score for a movie called "In Clear Sight".

"In Clear Sight" is a roughly 60 minute film set in Cold War Germany directed by Atso Pärnanen. It follows two soldiers on a surveillance mission of a Soviet military exercise. So, this one is right up my alley. We started talking about the music with ideas from Jerry Goldsmith's Rambo and the later addition by Brian Tyler. Also mentioned were Basil Poledouris' The Hunt for Red October and the Inception score by Hans Zimmer. From these stemmed several ideas we thought would be necessary for the score we were about to create.

The main theme of the score needed to be more human than military, so we chose to not have too many marching rhythms there. I've written a few different orchestrations of the theme, the main one having an acoustic guitar in the background and a duet of a trumpet and a french horn as the lead. The basic version of the theme is fairly simple, but it still has the potential to be really grand and big.

One of the big things in the film is the tension that is there as our heroes are operating behind enemy lines and spying on their activity. This we've chosen to create with synthetic sounds so we can create a slightly surreal feeling in it.

There is also a need for some action music in this film. The path we've chosen for the action music is more primal than your standard everyday Hollywood action score. It will be raw and big. Ok, maybe there will be some melody in there as well...

So, this is what I'm working on right now. I'll post some clips as soon as we're satisfied with the score.

Calling cards

(I've spent quite a lot of time this autumn thinking about our calling cards. I've tried to re-imagine what our cards should be like. I wanted them to show our sounds somehow (which incidentally is frigging hard when you're dealing with cardboard). The first thing I came up with was memory sticks. We got them printed and packed them full of music and sound design stuff (a whopping 11 hours and 28 minutes worth). 

But I wasn't really yet satisfied. I wanted to have something we could just easily give someone. For some reason I started to think of videos. They've usually got some sound and most people are kinda visually oriented.(Geewiz, film composers making videos with images and music... That's original.) But I gave it a shot and came up with this:

(And here's the music on SoundCloud)

Now, if we could only get our hands on something like this:

Come on Sony. Get that sucker into production so we can finally have our cool calling cards...

reveltone @ Facebook

This is just a reminder for those of you who haven't noticed it yet (I'm betting a lot you haven't...). We can now be found also on Facebook.

rvltn @ FB

Mush over there and like us if you like us!

New and improved website

I'll give you guys a heads up with a quick news flash. We've gone over our website and given it a make over and it now looks snazzier than ever. There's a chunk load of music to hear now as we've placed some our favourites from past years at your listening pleasure.

The Brand New Firelight:Studios Website