A Budapest Odyssey
In late February we travelled to Budapest to record material for our debut orchestral trailer-music album ‘Rapture’, with the amazing Budapest Symphony Orchestra. 10 tracks, 8 composers, 40 string players, 16 brass players and lots of sheets of paper.
We were fortunate enough to have Andy Brown, music director of the London Metropolitan Orchestra, supervising scores for us and conducting on location. Evolving Sound Creative Director Jules Bromley, and Head of Production Olivia Dixon made up the team, and composer Mike Reed also joined us, to make sure the two masterpieces he co-wrote with composer Nik Amar were performed to perfection.
Good friend and film-maker David Bickerstaff also kindly agreed to come along, to film the sessions and make sure people didn’t go to bed too early!
We ran two separate sessions at the famous Tomtom Studios, featuring separate 40 piece string and 16 piece brass sections. It was loud, it was dramatic, it sounded incredible!
At the time of writing, all the tracks we recorded are with LA film-score mixing legend Jim Hill for mixing, before travelling the few blocks to LA’s Capitol Studios for mastering. By the time you read this, they should be up on our website!
Check out our debut orchestral album Rapture, and many thanks to the Evolving Sound Budapest Massive and the players of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra for a memorable few days and some awesome recordings.
Hear Our MusicWhat We Learnt:
That Budapest Symphony Orchestra musicians are up there with the best players in the world. They're also extremely accommodating - not every brass section would happily sight-read parts that had inadvertently been left at concert pitch!
That Budapest is a beautiful city and the Jewish Quarter is a great place for a night out.
That life would be much simpler (although not necessarily better) if all composers used ProTools.
That Olivia can drink far more Strawberry Dakaris than we would ever have expected!
