Merry Christmas!!!!

And to celebrate these joyful days, nothing better than "Coming to town"!! Enjoy and merry christmas to you all!!!

Music award in ALCINE 07

Tadeo Jones and the basement of doom™ has just won best music award in AlCine's Festival!!! The composition of the soundtrack for this second part has been a big challenge. The short is much longer (=more music), many more things happen (=music becomes more complicated) and we had the Prague Symphony waiting to record the soundtrack... glups! And the night before the recording I was still finishing off the main theme... ayayayyyy!!! But thanks to Gato, Nico Matji, Claudio Ianni, José Vinader and Almudena Hidalgo everything went very well! You can hear for yourself in the mp3 below (it's Tadeo's theme) The award is the recognition of a job well done, so Congrats to everyone! Thanks ALCINE and thanks guys!!

  Tadeo's theme by Zacarías M. de la Riva

Tadeo Jones 2 has won first prize in ArtFutura

Tadeo Jones and the basement of doom™ hast just won first prize in the prestigious Festival ArtFutura. Congratulations to everyone!!! Here you'll find the list of prizes Tadeo 2 has already won.

And for those who have not yet seen the first Tadeo (must be insane), here it is... Enjoy!!!

The anarchist's wives

We've got a brand new project!! The film is called "The anarchist's wives" and it's directed by Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr. The main characters are played by Juan Diego Botto and Maria Valverde. Here you'll find more info.

Tadeo Jones 2 goes to the Goyas!!!

I've just found out!!! We're going to the Goyas!!!
Tadeo Jones and the basement of doom™ has been nominated for best animated short film 2007. Congratulations everyone!!!

Recording the score for "The last of the Just"

This is one of the moments of the recording in Galicia. Thanks to everyone that made it possible and special thanks to Claudio Ianni, José Vinader and Álex Martínez. Great job guys!

Tadeo Jones in Capitol Cinema

At last we are going to be able to see Mr. Jones in all its splendor!! And 4 more shorts too. For more info, click here. Those of you who want to go please tell me and I'll do my best to get you some tickets...

See you all there!!

We're almost there!!!

last week before recording the score for "The Last of the Just"
Well, it's been a few weeks with a lot of work, but what seemed almost impossible at the begining is now just around the corner. Tomorrow we're flying to La Coruña and saturday recording begins... aaaaahhhhh!!!!
Here's the movie poster...

Shostakovich and mon oncle

Next week the "Andrés Segovia" chamber orchestra, directed by Víctor Ambroa, will play and arrengement of mine of a piece by Shostakovich called "Tahiti-trot" in the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid next tuesday at 19:30. There's some interesting info about this work here.
They are also going to play works by Gerswhin and Cole Porter. For more info about the concert, click here. And if you'd like to come to the concert, call me or email me and I'll get you some tickets. See you there!!!

The last of the Just

first weeks of composing the score for "The Last of the Just"Hello everyone, It's been a few weeks since I began composing the score for the thriller "The Last of the Just". Directed by Manu Carballo and produced by Filmax, Ensueño Films and Lemon Films. For more info about the film, go here and here.
I am still in reel 1 but I already have some leitmotifs. Below you can listen to one of them. It's a mock-up version (using samplers only) but the quality is not that bad. This leitmotif in particular is for the main character Teo (played by Diego Martin) and you can hear it in his moments of calm and instrospection. Tell me what you think...

Teo by Zacarías M. de la Riva

Ford Ranger commercial

Last February I composed the music for the Ford Ranger commercial. It is being aired now on tv. For those of you who haven't seen it, here it is:

The basement of doom is coming...

It's here!!! The second part of Tadeo Jones™ is ready to rock all short film festivals.
Here you'll find a trailer and a making of the music, just to keep your mouths drooling...

HBO Comedy Festival

We are back...We didn't win any prizes (buaaa!!!), but we made good friends (Jerry and Orrin) and saw really good short films (My wife is retarded) and skied a little...
Below you'll find the short film divided in two parts... have fun!!! (comments are greatly appreciated)

Coming to town™ goes to Aspen!!!

One of the short films for which I composed the music last year,"Coming to town", has been selected in the HBO Comedy Festival that takes place in Aspen. So... we are going to Aspen!!!