Album Notes

As a composer with multiple EMMY awards as well as awards for films scores in competition, I am called upon to compose music for any target audience imaginable, like when I worked for PBS and my target audience was 1-2 year olds! In between assignments, one composes unendingly to be ready for said assignments. As any actor will tell you, it's cooler and easier to play the bad guy than it is the good guy! Musically speaking, it's just easier to write weird stuff as you are not always trying to "keep it clean and happy", which translates into less harmonic choices. Even "ambient" music is generally dark in tone if you think about it. Anyway, I tend to enjoy mixing strange sounds or scale tones together to see what happens instead of just having to experiment with "I Love You, You Love Me, Let's All Go And Kiss A Tree!". So, in the dark of a sleepless night, you turn on your recording / sequencing gear and all the different colored lights from the many pieces of equipment can be a very stimulating environment. Add to that, I am basically a moody Italian and you have Sinister Scores! BTW, I also did the album cover artwork, as usual and it'a available as a print. Here it is: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2792747&l=2b8c2e82e9&id=552676746