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01 April, 2024

Off the Scale #81 - Any Other Name by Thomas Newman

Hello everyone!

Drawing the movie themes to a close it's back to Thomas Newman and this time American Beauty takes centre stage.

I've gone for a particular piece of music that's so soothing, so relaxing, it almost demands you stop what you're doing to consume it properly in my opinion.

25 March, 2024

Off the Scale #80 - Love Actually Suite by Craig Armstrong

 Hello everyone!

Well, we're 20 away from target now and it doesn't seem all that long since I started before I took the series on a hiatus.

Continuing in with movie themes, I've chosen one from a movie I could care less about, but the music on the other hand? This one has to get a special shout out...

18 March, 2024

Off the Scale #79 - For the Love of a Princess by James Horner

Hey everyone!

Onto the next in my mini-series within a series.

This time, it's the turn of the excellently scored movie Braveheart. I'm not wasting time on accuracies or inaccuracies of this movie because my series zooms in on the music that matters...

11 March, 2024

Off the Scale #78 - Road to Perdition Theme by Thomas Newman

Hello everyone!

We're back for another edition of Off the Scale and this time it's movies I'm paying a visit to. For the next few entries I'm going to be looking at some of my favourite themes.

I hope you can grow to appreciate them as much as I do...

04 March, 2024

Off the Scale #77 - Ma Vlast by Bedřich Smetana

 Hello everyone!

My, it's been a looong time since this series was last present on my blog!

I've been through a tough few years and have had multiple intentions to restart this series celebrating classical music in all shapes and sizes...

Then the pandemic hit and changed everything.

Then my dad got sick and changed everything.

Then my priorities changed, as my dad passed away, and I had to step back from blogging for a season.

But here I am, back once again in my journey to 100 episodes...

24 February, 2024

2023 Year End Review

 Hello everyone!

Rather belatedly, but as promised, here is my best of show for 2023. As always, the winners are not necessarily from content produced in 2023, just that it was consumed, by me, last year and made enough of an impression upon me to deserve a place on this list.

Here we go...