Mulberry Harbour

Warm, organic and eclectic electronic music and soundtracks

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Soundtracks

Acoustic Electronica Neoclassical/Orchestral Ambient Folk Rock/Indie

Mulberry Harbour produces soundtrack music combining the warmth, phrasing and individuality of live recording with electronica, samples and programming. As well as producing commissioned music, a large number of pre-cleared tracks are available for licensing.

Instrumentation

Electronica, fingerpicked guitars, musical saw, and a whole lot more

Often combining live recordings on an old 8-track with digital software, Mulberry Harbour's methods include self-sampling fragments of finger-picked guitar, cuatro, bowed saw and theremin; recording ambient sounds and snatches of conversation on a mobile phone in lifts, bars and tunnels; and stripping randomly generated drum patterns into skeletons of their former selves. The result is an at times quixotic combination of sounds such as the Morriccone-esque harmonica vs. percussion of Electric Candle Machine and the fragile, haunting melody of bowed saw over metronomical beat on The Water Boatman

Albums

To stream or download

Credits

Commissioned work examples

BBC Three

Blues/desert rock track produced to spec for the trailer for Amy: My body for bucks, BBC 3 Seriously Young Season.

Featuring

Dinnick & Howells

Track produced for Dinnick & Howells combining self-performed Mexican mariachi band with a Victorian fairground music sample, for the soundtrack to an animated Doritos ad.

Featuring

Channel 5

15 instrumental tracks including closing titles commissioned for an hour long Centini documentary in the Extraordinary People series. Primetime broadcast, audience over 2.5 million.

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Licensees via Getty/Pump Audio include

The Daily Beast Lynda.com Animal Planet The Great Courses The Learning Channel


Influences

Pick of the bunch

  • Bibio

  • IDM, electronica and folk producer on Warp, with penchant for field recordings and found sounds

  • Max Richter

  • Incredibly beautiful and moving modern classical with spoken word samples and hints of electronica

  • Paavoharju

  • Almost unclassifiable Finnish collective of free folk experimentalists

  • Steve Reich

  • Pioneer of minimalist music, speech melody and phasing

  • Sufjan Stevens

  • Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter partial to a bit of banjo

  • Alarm Will Sound

  • 20 member chamber orchestra recording contemporary music, including acoustic arrangements of Aphex Twin

  • Lambchop

  • alt.country pioneers led by the irrepressible Kurt Wagner, who occasionally veer into soul, rock and lounge

  • Philip Glass

  • Diverse contemporary classical music, with use of 'repetitive structures'. Rousing, epic soundtrack work on Mishima and Candyman

  • Nick Drake

  • The epitome of the melancholy English singer-songwriter

  • Iron & Wine

  • Sam Beam's alt.country outfit, hushed songs and mesmerising fingerpicked guitar

  • Hauschka

  • Dusseldorf composer who explores the possibilities of prepared piano

  • Goldmund

  • Slow-paced, wieightless piano music from Keith Kenniff (Helios), close mics capturing every keysound

  • Four Tet

  • Kieran Hebden's instrumental pot pourri of electronica, folktronica, jazz, techno

  • Sparklehorse

  • Alt.rock, horses and home recording from Danger Mouse collaborator Mark Linkous

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