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AudioSparx Newsletter November 2009 - Holiday Music and SFX for Christmas, New Years & Chinese New Years
AudioSparx Newsletter - November 2009
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November 2009 Newsletter |
Make your Holidays bright with warm Holiday Music and Sound Effects from
around the world. We have hundreds of heartwarming and whimsical music
tracks with both religious and secular themes for your TV and Film
productions, commercials, ad campaigns, games, toy embedding, etc. From
Jingle Bells and Sugar Plum Groove, to Ava Maria and Deck the Halls – AudioSparx has
you covered!But Don’t Take Our Word for It....
Watch the
Magical Christmas Video Now!
We've got a magical library of
Christmas and New Years tracks perfect for your every need, including:
Religious Christmas music, secular music for the Holidays, Jazzy Christmas & Holiday tracks,
Punk Rock Holiday Music, Roaring Fireplace SFX, Horse and Carriage SFX, Sleigh Bells Ringing, Jingle Bells Jangling,
Champagne Corks Flying, New Year's Eve Countdowns, Party, Pub, Club & Bar Ambience, plus 44 versions of Auld Lang Syne!
. . . T H E R E V O L U T I O N C O N T I N U E S . . .
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Ten AudioSparx Critics’ Picks for Great Holiday Songs Perfect for Film,
TV Specials, Corporate Promos and Christmas Commercials
What makes a great holiday song? According to Wikipedia, while he was
sitting poolside one night in 1940 Irving Berlin wrote a song he knew
was good (he often wrote in the late night hours). The next day he got
together with his secretary to dictate the words of his song. Before
dictation, he said, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just
wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best song
that anybody's ever written!" The song was, of course, White Christmas,
which became the best selling single ever written, plus he had Bing
Crosby to sing it.
Our artists here at AudioSparx have written some exciting, vivid and
truly inspiring Christmas and Holiday Melodies. Click through these
links below to listen to our best-selling Christmas tracks mixed with a
few of our favorites. Or you can click
Christmas Music and find over 1,000 beautiful traditional and
contemporary tracks for your Film, TV and other media productions – all
warm, creative, roaring fireplace, St. Nick-inspired music.
AudioSparx always has beautiful and original music up on the rooftop,
down under the chimney, and nestling under the Christmas Tree – check it
out, toss it in your Shopping Cart and let the holidays begin.
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Italian Artist, Max DiCarlo -
"Christmas
World" - A Joyful Disney Around-the-World Treat – Symphony Orchestra with
Bells, and Holiday Wishes in English, Spanish, French, Italian, etc. “Merry, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.”
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Los Angeles Artist, MX47 -
"Sugar Plum Groove"
- A Modern Urban Hip Hop arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” ballet – Dynamic and Mischievous.
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California Artist, Jive Ass Sleepers -
"O
Christmas Tree" - Perfect for jazzing up your Holiday projects, a laidback swing
version of the Christmas Classic arranged for Piano, Guitar, Tenor Sax, Upright Bass and Drum.
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New York Artist, Marc David Decker - A gorgeous rendition of a World Favorite Classic,
"Silent
Night", beautifully sung by children with orchestral accompaniment.
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Los Angeles Artist, Rob Page -
"Holiday
for Elves"- Short and sweet, fun and fabulous, for Macy’s Parade commercials, toy promotions, and feel-good holiday
promotions.
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Texas Artist, Texas Gypsies -
"What
Child Is This?"- Fast energetic Flamenco instrumental version of this Christmas Classic – a very intense and fiery track.
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Rhode Island Artist, Christmas at the Devil’s House -
"March
(Nutcracker)" - Joe Thurber’s Slammin’ Hot Guitar rendition of Tchaikovsky’s iconic holiday song.
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UK Artist, Mark Revell -
"Imps"
- A delightful, Disney-worthy track that is slightly mischievous with
magical glockenspiel melody, pizzicato strings, suggestive of faeries,
pixies, gnomes and magical stuff.
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Pennsylvania Artist, Michael Crowther - "Moonlight Sleighride"
- A beautiful, inspirational wintry scene with sleigh bells and sampled wood blocks for the horse clopping effects, creating the
sounds of riding in a horse-drawn carriage.
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Florida Artist, Tom Jemmott - "All Aboard" -
An exciting, fun, fast-paced orchestral piece great for warm holiday productions involving trains, railroads, and adventure, written in
the style of Danny Elfman.
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New SoundPacks, MusicPacks & ComposerPacks
The artists at AudioSparx are continually innovating. Below is a
small sample of some of the new SoundPacks that have been uploaded
during the past month.
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SoundPack (72 Tracks) -
Robotic synthetic voice speaking each number (zero through nine) and each letter (A through Z). |
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Metalhead? You'll enjoy
these 28 high quality recorded metal hitting sound
effects!! |
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The perfect collection of
sound effects for Lazer games, including six lazer
breach/disruption sounds, miscellaneous synthetic voice
and robotronic voice warnings. 26 tracks in total! |
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Introducing Buzz Pack
Version 1.0! Get your buzz on! |
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Great Christmas Stuff.
Jingles played by jazz ensemble and big band. |
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This is an ambient,
reflective Grand Piano piece that plays for a full one
hour. The music is similar to some of the works by Brian
Eno, in as much as it is transparent, calmly reflective.
Neither happy nor sad, not particularly emotional, but
gentle, comforting, impressionistic. Very little repetit |
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A one hour long,
uninterrupted piece of relaxation music. Warm and
comforting, this 60-minutes track uses a mix of soft
pads, piano, acoustic guitar and some more unusual
sounds to create a constantly evolving, slowly moving
musical soundscape. Very little repetition, despite the
long playing time. |
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This track plays for a full
60 minutes continuously. Relaxing, calming, cleansing
and soothing ambient music. Although a full hour long,
there is very little repetition here, as the music
slowly moves through relaxing, flowing soundscapes.
Great for relaxation, meditation, nature, peaceful
footage, |
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This piece of soothing
relaxation music plays for 60 minutes uninterrupted. The
music is floating, tingling, soothing and soft
relaxation music, with only a few sparse melodic
elements. It keeps an even flow, but is not repetitive
-- there is very little repetition, despite it's full
one hour playi |
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This track plays for a full
60 minutes continuously. Relaxing, refreshing,
cleansing, and touching ambient music, inspired by the
tranquility of life under water. Great for relaxation or
nature, diving etc, with very little repetition
throughout the full one hour playing time. |
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Spotlight On Our Artists
Our “Hot New Artists” feature is the place to see the best of the best new talent that has signed with AudioSparx lately. From
Grammy award-winning composers, to high-demand session players to world-class extraordinary music artists in every imaginable genre, our
Artist Directory is the perfect resource for discovering the next wave of top music talent. Click and
take a listen here.
And here below we want to shine a light on two of our accomplished artists whose music has achieved major commercial success or
been used around the world to great acclaim in Film and TV, advertising campaigns, corporate and other media projects.
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Colin Willsher
UK composer Colin Willsher has written over 200 scores for major TV
broadcasters and production companies, including thousands of
individual music cues. Colin's music has been published by EMI and
featured in Films, Commercials, Network TV programs, including BBC,
ITV, Channel 5, Sky and
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Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Eurosport,
MTV, ABC TV, and many more. With over 400 tracks in 24 genres,
Colin's music can add a masterful touch to your film, screenplay,
trailer, commercial or TV production. Let his star quality inform
your next hot project!
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Tempero
Tempero is a Portuguese word that means Spice, but it can also mean Balance.
The music presented by Tempero is rich and inspiring, filled with original
flavors from around the world. Here you'll find soft and cool Chill-out
beats, hard and pounding Rock tunes, majestic and grandiose Orchestral cues
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and exotic World compositions. Coming to you directly from Brazil, take a
listen and see why Tempero's spicy tracks have appeared in over one thousand
TV and Radio spots. Felipe Vassão and Janecy Nascimento are the main composers
at Tempero, and after almost two decades of writing for advertising, film and
TV, they have honed their skills in multiple genres.
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Studio Privileges Downloads
Innovation Never Stops...
Our Hollywood, Ad Agency and Corporate clients have shown a phenomenal response
to our new studio download privileges offer. AudioSparx provides select clients
with the privilege to download high-resolution non-watermarked music
tracks to try out in your productions. To request this capability,
click here. Perfect for busy sound editors, music supervisors, media developers and broadcast producers!
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67 New Artists Signed to AudioSparx Label Last Month
Our “Hot New Artist” list showcases our newest, most meritorious artists
from around the world. To see all of the artists at AudioSparx, visit the
AudioSparx Artist Directory online. Below is a sample of just a few of the exciting new
artists who signed with AudioSparx last month.
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Andrew
Gleibman (Israel)
Israeli musician
and producer Andrew Gleibman composes exuberant, emotional,
mystical, meditative and melodic combinations of ambient noise
with classic piano, flute, strings, church bells, pizzicato
strings and female voices. Some tracks exhibit super-virtuosic
and humorous piano passages, while others are so tense and
chilling they scream Psyco-Madness, Horror and Terror for scenes
where everything comes unglued. Great underscore music for
Sci-Fi, Freddy, Elm Street, Hitchcock, and more. Andrew's music
abounds with surprise and originality.
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David Hamilton (USA)
Acclaimed composer
David S. Hamilton's compositions and orchestrations can be heard
in a variety of motion pictures, television shows, musicals, and
national advertisement campaigns. Mr. Hamilton received his
Bachelor of Music in Composition for Film and Television with
highest honors from Northwestern University and his Master of
Music in Film Scoring from New York University.
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Sesso and Sottoriva (Italy)
Sesso and Sottoriva
are a couple of Italians on our site with laidback Acid Jazz and
Latin dance music that will make your temperature rise even in the
dead of winter. Check out "Favola Beat," a triumphant blast of cool
sax and trumpet sounds, and other house music and ambient tracks.
This is a hot duo with a hot vibe whose music will bring smiles to
rich lifestyle promos, cruises, high fashion catwalk, adverts for
BMWs and Lear Jets, or jammin' aerobics, sports and world news
shows. Dramatic, driving, high energy beats for corporate branding
and dynamic ad campaigns.
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Tobias Gebb (USA)
Tobias Gebb is an
award-winning composer from New York City. He won a 1996 Grammy
competition with the collaborative group Skizm and as a result
worked with legendary producer Phil Ramone. His music received
"Honorable Mention" status at The Village Voice.
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Manuka Dreams (New Zealand)
Welcome to the
world of Manuka Dreams. Let yourself be allured in a world of
digital synthesizer sounds and atmospheric arrangements and
enjoy the atmosphere of repose and relaxation. Derive strength
from the sound collages' profundity and endlessness and slip
into soft sound worlds. Elegant tranquility, floating among
twinkling stars, meditating in grassy fields, ambient fantasies,
deep water scenes, peaceful galaxy explorations. With over 50
exquisite 20-minute tracks on line, each gentle, soft acoustic
soundscape is superb for meditation, relaxation, and dreamy
fantasies.
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Tanis Leaves (USA)
Washington
guitarist Tony N Tanis brings us some smokin' hot guitar tracks
perfect for Reality TV or movie soundtracks and credits, and
other media productions needing his action-packed, energizing
music. His "Drama Buttons" builds tension, as does "Rock
Climber," and would work well in action adventure films,
endurance tests, and ad campaigns for manly fashions, beer,
Adidas, Nike, Nascar, and more. Heavy bass and drum rhythms,
loud distorted guitars, and a sprinkling of other elements
combine to form the exemplary rock music offered by Tanis
Leaves.
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John Mamone (Canada)
John Mamone is an
active musician and songwriter with more than 20 years
experience, and is the bass player/lead singer for the Canadian
rock band Volume Water. His music has been licenced by MTV for
the television program "TWO A DAYS," and he has recorded with
producer Jack Richardson (The Guess Who, Alice Cooper), and
opened up for Big Sugar, and Pete Best, the original drummer for
THE BEATLES. John has also performed live with members from the
bands I Mother Earth and Finger Eleven at Volume Water shows.
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La Laque (USA)
La Laque is a band
that began in Brooklyn, New York, in the fall of 2003. The band
creates a beautifully arranged wall of sound with tons of reverb
and whispery, sexy French female vocals. Musical elements
include screaming surf guitar, garage-style drums, sinewy bass,
strings and organ to form a completely unique and beautiful
texture that is different from other New York bands. In moments,
the band can jump from raucous 60's garage to classy torch music
to lush, dreamy indie rock. The melodies are catchy and
addictive and the music is equal parts joyous and heartbreaking.
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Light Box Therapy (USA)
John Telaak, based
in Buffalo, NY, is the creative singer, songwriter and producer
behind Light Box Therapy. A DJ through the 80's, John has been
writing and recording on his own and with several bands
including Sonorous, The Perfect Tragedy, and now Light Box
Therapy. In 2006, John went into the studio with producer Armand
John Petri (Goo Goo Dolls, 10,000 Maniacs, Sixpence None The
Richer) to record the Sunshine Overload EP, with a few friends
helping out and Armand on percussion and keyboards.
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Vertical Markets
If you haven't visited AudioSparx for a while, you'll be impressed with our constant innovation and attention to
detail. We have created dedicated new areas of our site to focus on these specific vertical markets:
Christmas & New Years Music & SFX
Scary Horror and Sci-Fi Music & SFX
Music For TV & Film
Music For Games & Software
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FreeZone For Students
For film students and students in general, AudioSparx also offers a
FreeZone of over 1,000 music and sound effect tracks at no charge for use in students’ non-commercial production work. With limited budgets,
many college and university drama departments are finding AudioSparx an invaluable resource for their productions.
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