Tolo - "Halo"

[Tony Lowther]

Hello Folks - happy Friday to each of you!

Please find another one of my original Instrumental pieces - although this one actually featuring vocals! It is a bit of an epic - so please stick with it to get the full story - it will surprise you in place and take you on a journey (well - that was the intention anyway)

Advice always appreciated,

Stay well,

Tony

https://app.box.com/s/gz8vaatt5g19brutpiu800o2ijkqv5kh

[Timothy Smith]

 This must have taken considerable time to sculpt. I appreciate all of the interesting twists and turns along the way! Do you produce scores for your work? Do you mind sharing some of your process?

Thanks! Very nice indeed.

[Tony Lowther]

Timothy - thank you for listening and for your encouragement. Thank you also for the feedback. No problem at all - I am a guitarist first and foremost - and as has been noticed before on this forum in regard to my work, largely from the rock / commercial genre. I don’t produce scores - I am a musician by ear and am self taught. Not only in music by the way - but also in audio production, mastering and engineering. I am literally a one man band - a home studio, ProTools, lots of guitars and some nice virtual instruments. I am unashamedly trying to break my music into the movie / tv / gaming industries - but it is difficult... My music is very personal to me and always begins with a guitar riff / hook / melody. I then have the luxury of being able to build on it using the technology I have built up over the time I have learnt how to mix and produce... Everything I write is centered around something, someone, some event in my life and that allows me to vocalise those emotions via a soundstage and melody. I cannot sing at all - and so guitars always feature heavily. After guitars and the initial idea - the pulse of the song is important to me - the heartbeat - so I concentrate a lot on the kit and bass parts In order to try and keep it as human as possible. My influences - people like John Barry, Hans Zimmer amongst them - kind of help me fill in the melodic gaps from a string / brass arrangement perspective. But each piece is different and unique to me - a part of my life. And you are right - it does take some time - the hardest part though is knowing when it is finished... That is the demon of the Digital technology at hand - there are no limits. So a long answer to a short question - but I realise that I am probably not the usual contributor to a forum like this - but I don’t believe in classification corridors and consider myself a composer of music nonetheless.

Again, appreciated.

Best,

Tony