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I have new music out today! ‘Gut, Danke.’ is a wonderful, touching and gentle short film about grief. I wrote a couple of songs based on the script and talks with the team before they started filming and the piece ‘Depression’ perfectly sit on scene during editing. The music and acting melted into one another and we didn’t change a note ! Then in another scene one of the main characters, the daughter, plays the piano all by herself lost in thought. I only saw her fingers glistening across a few notes and worked backwards from it. I wanted the piano play...

I sure hope you remember the winner of the Recompose competition from 2020 Nyokabi Kariũki ! As you know, she also released her debut record not too long after on out now mutual label SA Records! And now the first live show for this record is coming up. She asked me to sing with her for this very first show and I feel very honoured to usher the record in with her onto the stage! Come say hi! Tickets here !

I am delighted to join Roomful Of Teeth at their residency this year at MassMoca as once of their composers for new work. Which they will indeed perform for the very first time tomorrow at MassMoca (aka the most awesome place).

Read a little about the residency here: Berkshire Eagle

And find some more info about the show here: MassMoca.org

For my pieces we needed planetary tuning forks as they are not in concert pitch and we need to tune to the planets instead. The image you can see below is a resonator I have built just for this...

The incomparable Anoshka Shankar has a new song out today, announcing an upcoming album!
The song Land of Gold (originally the title-track of her 2016 Grammy-nominated album) is out now in a lush new orchestral avatar via Leiter Verlag.

Credits:
Performed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago, Metropole Orkest and conductor Jules Buckley.
Composed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago and me
New orchestral arrangement by: Jules Buckley

Enjoy and also find it on my collabs Spotify playlist which is ever growing and changing!

If you catch this movie, see if you can spot my song 'Eggshell' ! How very fitting for it to appear in a movie about Peter Pan and growing up - or not ;)
The Lost Girls directed by Livia De Paolis starring Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Iain Glen, Julian Ovenden, Louis Partridge and more is out now! And 'Eggshell' is here (or any other of your favorite streaming service)!

I am delighted to join the Bosworth and Wise music international family and such an inspiring, impressive and diverse roster. I wish that together we further connect my musical worlds and expand the network of connections to spark new and exciting musical electricity!

Read more at CMU (EN) or MusikWoche (DE).

xx
Alev

It's here! The lyric video for "What If I Wait" is here!

The movie’s title theme is visually captured by Amy Chiniara, Illustrator & graphic designer and Ali J. Dalloul, Editor, filmmaker and video essayist, from Beirut in an incredibly touching piece of work.

Amy Chiniara is a Lebanese freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Beirut. She works on different projects, from layout, to poster and logo design, and editorial illustration and comics. She recently animated a music video for Palestinian artist Ruba Shamshoum for her song “Winti Hon”.

‘Milky Way’ is here!!!! This record was born out of the search for healing and friendship, kinship and joy. A friend, Violeta Vicci, sensed my yearning and offered her healing instrument and writing. Together Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus were born. Soon after my friends closest to me, especially during the pandemic, offered their generous spirit and talent. The stars aligned and Mercury was written with Nina Harries, Mars and Venus with Aisling Brouwer and Neptune with Shruti Kumar. Through joyful exchanges, the album title and our little slogan “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in concert pitch anymore!” formed and now ‘Mil...

Whooo this is very exciting! My very first feature lenght score is OUT TODAY! It is called 'Im Nachtlicht', just like the motion picture by writer/director Misha L. Kreuz. This is my first release of 2022 - a quite delayed one I might add , as the pandemic pushed the theatrical release of the film for over 1 ½ years. Along with the movies's theatrical release and the soundtrack release today I also had the ABSOLUTE pleasure to welcome to life the 'Im Nachtlicht' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack visuverse. I'll get to that in a bit. As you know I regularly write songs t...

Thanks so much to the World Soundtrack Academy for welcoming me into their international community of composers for screen and film music industry professionals! Check out my profile here!