Rick Mays is a composer and producer of music for modern dance, theatre and film. He performed as a touring keyboardist with the iconic Sarah Brightman, and now writes music in styles that include symphonic, new age, and dramatic soundtracks. Rick often blends unusual rhythms, unexpected harmonies, and lyrical melodies into his music, and adds to the mix ethnic instruments from around the world. The combination is a unique sound with a flowing, rhythmic and challenging style, which provides exciting compositions for any number of our clients' TV, film and media projects.
This is an action cue built on a strong driving military drum track and layered with violins, Wagnerian brass, and a scorching sax counterpoint. It can be looped to fit a longer scene. The relentless
drum track pushes the cue to a dramatic end. Cue is appropriate for car ads and similar projects. Instrumental, Corporate, Radio/Multimedia
Apocalyptic anthem, suited for epic battle preparation scenes, Dungeons and Dragons, End of the World scenarios. Imagine a battlefield in 6000 B.C., in the enemy's camp the night before the battle. Male chorus, boys choir, sopranos plus taiko drums, cello, tympani, double bass, Wagnerian brass, Vocal Samples, Action, Impending Tribal, Richard Wagner
Armageddon, the Apocalypse, Nostradamus, End of the World -- Vocal samples of mens chorus, sopranos, boys choir along with orchestral strings, Wagnerian brass and Taiko drums. Just in time for 2012, get your apocalypse right here... Instrumental, Action, Thriller Tribal
Southern rock cue seething and disturbed, forming one long crescendo with angry rock drums, bayou telecaster solo guitar, climaxing to high energy Allman Brothers-like guitar duet. Taiko drums pump adrenaline into the mix, and the dueling guitars bring it to a rock cathartic clean ending. Instrumental, Rock, Southern Rock
Suspense, chase and climax music - classical orchestra + rock drums, with mad Gypsy violin solo. Designed for episodic action, changing in dynamics and orchestration every 10 to 20 seconds. The ending is a dissonant train wreck, a pile-up in a blind alley, as the chase crashes to its full climax. Instrumental, Action, Adventure Orchestral
Solemn, emotional orchestral piece: solo military trumpet, harp, rhodes, English horn, French horns. Solo trumpet evokes a sad farewell to a fallen comrade. Rubato, free flowing tempo pulls at the heart strings in music that is ideal for closing credits or intensely emotional moment of tribute. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
Full orchestra, with English horn, Wagnerian brass, and a Gypsy 1st Violin. Starting off pensively, swelling to a full Hollywood Strings 1940s dramatic climax (think Bette Davis), and ending with a sense of finality that will put the button on a sad or poignant scene. Emotional and cathartic. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
As the fog rolls in, emotions flood through the string orchestra, as solo oboe conjures the spirit of lost love. Emotional swells and flowing rubato tempo, open the floodgates of despair to express tragedy, and grief. A final oboe solo evokes memories of better days. Soundtrack for cathartic scene. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
Orchestral chase music, changing in dynamics every:15 to:20, episodic, climactic. Solo Gypsy Violin leads the inexorable climax as the chase crashes to its end. Classical orchestra plus driving drums, and electronic textures. Excellent for animation and chase scenes. Instrumental, Horror, Horror Chase
Driving 128 bpm bed. Industrial electronic action loop with driving angry psychotic pulse. Overlaid with electronic EFX that create the hallucinatory mindscape of a tortured soul. Great for build-up scenes, add intense tension to action sequence or game map. Also good bed for repetitive action scene, Instrumental, Action, Impending Electronic
A solo oboe sings the song of Scheherezade, as she dances in her Persian palace. Guitar and Harp accompany this alluring melody, as it grows, mysteriously and gracefully, to a dramatic climax with full ensemble plus new age choir. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
Midnight special operations patrol on a mideast desert -- tension builds throughout with the relentless, ever-increasing pounding drums of war. Together, the drums and female Syrian vocalist weave a spell of danger and intrigue. Ending with a cloud of dust and a final echo of the vocal solo. Vocal Samples, Military, Battle Action Middle-East
This track is evocative and mysterious, scintillating and awe-inspiring; excellent transition music to dreamy or atmospheric scene, such as stumbling upon Ali Baba's cave, with bats and treasure all around, and piles of gold and diamonds glinting from the shadows. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
Come away on a voyage through exotic sounds of the East, as a solo shakuhachi flute wends through flowing 7/4 time, in a smooth and relaxing journey. Lyrical melodies and interesting rhythms could have been the soundtrack for Marco Polo's ships, with the rhythmic waves adding their irregular beats, Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
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