Jon Cotton / Gramophone

[libertango]

More for myself than anything else (but I love the work this guy does, obviously):

Gramophone -- the band
Gramophone at CDBaby
Jon Cotton at MySpace
StringArranging.com -- Jon's site as a composer-for-hire
Artisan Audio -- Jon's site for his studio in Brum
Poseidon Music -- seems like an odd collective. They call themselves a "label", but they have no recordings I can find. They mention they'll do work-for-hire for films. As may be, it's Jon's newest project.

Comments

[scalzi.livejournal.com]

Glad to see that I'm not the only person who loves loves loves Gramophone.

Cotton

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

He has a fondness for web sites that use mystery meat navigation.

That said, if you go to his examples page at StringArranging.com, there's a track from Jason Lockett called "Trapdoor" that Jon did the strings for that I find very appealing. Completely different in tone from his Gramophone work, but good nonetheless.

It's available on iTunes. (As Jobs peers into my wallet and says, Bored of the Rings-style, "Tote up another one on the register, Jocko!" "Ching!")

(And whatever happened to the CGI Bored of the Rings adaptation that should've come out just when Return of the King was wrapping? It's not like they didn't have years of lead time...)

(But I digress.)

Waltz

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

On, and that was the other thing I wanted to mention, before Bored references distracted me...

Did you ever notice "Mr. T" is a waltz? Perahps a bit fast, but still...

I started noticing waltzes in pop tunes a few years back, and now hear them all the time. It's not unlike (and this should be a lexicon entry, he said cryptically) beige Volvos. Or ROUSes.