Hear more of my music on reverbnation

July 21, 2008 by George Shaw.

It’s been an exciting few weeks, my new soundtrack album has been released (J-ok’el), and I’ve been hearing so much enthusiasm from fans who’ve bought the CD. I even did a CD signing the week it came out, and it seems weird to me that anyone would want my signature, especially after looking down at the album I just signed and seeing just how terrible and unreadable my handwriting is. Several people have asked me how to pronounce “J-ok’el”. Well, the “J” in spanish sounds like “Y”. So it’s pronounced “Yo-kel”.

I also played a Rockband charity tournament (the rockband videogame…I’m not a good enough performer to join a band), and my band WON! It was amazing, and to play drums in front of a crowd of screaming people was such an adrenaline rush that I haven’t ever experienced in all my years playing in orchestras and concert bands. And all the proceeds go towards Mercy Corps’ COMFORT FOR KIDS, a program helping earthquake survivors in Sichuan, China.

Read more about the rockband charity tournament on my alivenotdead.com blog:

I also put in some long nights to do a last minute score for a really funny comedy called ASIAN STORIES. It stars James Kyson Lee (from NBC’s Heroes), Kathy Uyen, and Kirt Kishita, and is having a one week theatrical release in Los Angeles, beginning July 25th at the ImaginAsian Center in downtown LA. It will be releasing on DVD on September 2nd. This is one of the best films I’ve worked on, and I’ve found myself laughing at scenes even after I’ve seen them multiple times. It’s that funny!

You don’t have to wait for my next release to hear more of my music. I put up some exclusive tracks you can download for free if you sign up for my mailing list on reverbnation.com/georgeshaw. You’ll also get email updates about future releases, upcoming movies, and new tracks you can download for free. You can also grab widgets of my music and share them on your own website or myspace page, they even automatically update when I load new music, so you’ll be the first to hear my latest stuff.

Some of the exclusive tracks you can download now are suites from short films that I’ve done, such as:
*Willie Mays and the Infinite Sadness, an emotional and moving fantasy, that required some really big lush orchestral music (it was temped w/ Horner’s Beautiful Mind, and Elfman’s Big Fish).
*Creswood Hotel, a suspense film done in a very Hitchcockian style, and the score is an homage to Bernard Herrmann.
*The Story of Maureen and Malcolm, a charming romantic fairy tale made by some very talented film students in the UK.
*The Complex, my very first full-length feature film score for a very low budget horror film that will likely never be seen. But I’m very proud of the music, as the director gave me the freedom to do what I want. The suite consists of the main titles and one of the big supernatural finale pieces that allowed me to do something dark but with hints of the magical orchestrations in Williams’ Harry Potter scores.

http://www.reverbnation.com/georgeshaw

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