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The First Legion

Ride of the Champions

Blood From A Stone

An Island, A World

Orchestral Fantasy (Library)

Composer: Daniel Drumm
Year: 2017

All The Ordinary Angels (Original Score)

COMPOSER: DANIEL DRUMM
DIRECTOR: SIMON LOVELL
YEAR: 2015

My main project of 2014/15 was my first feature length score – or score of any kind for that matter! – for the film All The Ordinary Angles, produced by the Co-Op funded British Youth Film Academy.

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“All The Ordinary Angels” centres around an Italian descended family in industrial Manchester, and their ice cream factory. The once great, now floundering “Raffa’s”, is being passed on to the next generation by owner and family patriarch Giuseppe Raffa as he soon retires.

He pits his sons – the hot-headed Rocco and the meek Lino – against one another in an ice-cream sell-off to determine who will take over the business.

What start’s as brotherly competition, quickly descends into insanity when the ruthless Rocco, less-than-willing factory worker Lulu, and her drug dealer older brother Joe, conspire to make their ice cream…very moreish…a scheme which crosses many lines and soon tears the family apart.

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My aim was to make fairly simple musical ideas, dressed up with a big orchestral/electronic arrangements and production, on a budget. The experience was a crash course in so many things: orchestral composition and arranging, realistic programming for orchestras, syncing video to picture in emotionally effective ways, working with directors and the revision process, the film making process in general…it was back to school. I’d like to think the music is at least a 2:1…

I’d like to thank BYFA for taking a chance on someone untested, Simon Lovell the director for running himself ragged in the name of the every aspect of the film, and Dominik Schirmer for crash-coursing me in the broad strokes of composing to picture without which I’d have been pretty lost. Oh! And every film I’ve ever watched; it was all preparation!

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Library Showreels

A sampling of library tracks pitched for ads and the like in 2015. All tracks are available for use; feel free to contact me below.

Nina G – I Like You Better When You UGLY

ARTIST: NINA G
WRITTEN BY: NINA GRØDAHL, ARE NÆSSET & DANIEL DRUMM
YEAR: 2015

Hilde Holme – Matters Of The Heart

Artist: Hilde Holme
Written By: Hilde Holme
Year: 2015

Composition Showreels

Nina G – Gimmie Some

ARTIST: NINA G
Written By: NINA GRØDAHL & DANIEL DRUMM
YEAR: 2015

Its a great thing when you go outside of your comfort zone and the payoff is this big. I’ve recently been dipping my toe into genres I’d have never expected make music in, and finding the whole new set of materials and conventions I get to work with exciting, invigorating and also pretty overwhelming. Good thing Nina G is brimming with focus and vision for her music, qualities that helped wrangle all my fresh, sketchy knowledge into some music we’re both really proud of. Shout outs to Tony Draper for the mix, Mike Cave for the master, along with the legends behind the video for shooting and dancing in the freezing fog until they couldn’t feel their leg-ends!