Production & Scoring

I’ve made a bunch of different kinds of music for video, be it film, TV or online. Here are some highlights:

 
 
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Bruk Out! (dir. Cori Wapnowska): I was hired to compose original music for this super entertaining and moving film about women all over the world coming together around Jamaican dancehall dance culture. I got to attend a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn, and it was a real thrill to hear my productions behind wild dance styles and interviews with dancehall legends such as Beenie Man and Elephant Man, and comparing well to hit Jamaican tunes used in other places in the film.

“Regulation Song” (dir. Sean Frechette): Low Mentality was hired to write an original song about the issue of government regulation as part of a series of web videos called We The Voters, produced by Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame. This was a very fun process-- I was given a sheet of lyrics that I rearranged to fit into an original Low Mentality groove, which was recorded in Brooklyn, and we filmed the performance part of the video at Newark’s City Hall.

 
 
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How To Survive A Plague (dir. David France): the band Superhuman Happiness, led by the great Stuart Bogie, was brought in to provide music for this profound and compelling documentary about Act Up!, the activist organization that brought worldwide attention to the AIDS crisis in the 80s. Stuart composed a bunch of spot-on music, and created some improvisational settings, and I played bass and piano throughout the film.

Serge Ibaka: Son Of The Congo (dir. Adam Hootnick): I composed and recorded some of the music on a Grantland/ESPN 30 for 30 web series about Congolese NBA power forward Serge Ibaka (who is now a world champion with the Toronto Raptors). My contributions drew from my experience with Congolese music and provided a sense of place for the series, which largely takes place in the DRC. 

Brain Games (EP Toby Gorman, Casey Kriley, James Rowley and Lauren Williams): along with some friends from Antibalas, I performed music for an upcoming edition of this fun, educational show hosted by Keegan-Michael Key (of Key & Peele) for the Nat Geo channel. The music was written by composers from the company Signature Tracks, and I was pleased to contribute funky guitar, bass and keys to the soundtrack.