Rob Lord (musician)

Rob Lord (born 1966 in Coventry, England)[1][2] Rob recently scored Amazon Studios’ feature Troop Zero, directed by Bert and Bertie and starring Academy Award® winners Viola Davis and Allison Janney and is fast becoming one of the UK’s most sought-after composers and songwriters working in film and television.

His work, known for its combination of unusual and experimental instrumentation and sound with strong melodic hooks, has featured in all of directors Bert & Bertie’s projects to date including their 2016 US feature Dance Camp, boxing biopic I Am Duran with Robert De Niro for Universal Pictures, comedy feature Apartment 12 starring Mark Ruffalo, Sci-Fi heist movie Slipstream starring Sean Astin and the UK horror feature Writer’s Retreat for Moli Films plus two further US horror features for MPCA starring Lance Henrickson in the Pumpkinhead series. Other notable credits include the BAFTA and RTS award nominated feature documentary The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins for the BBC, and the multi award winning six part US Sci-Fi drama RCVR.

In a previous life having graduated from Art College Rob toured and recorded for a number of high profile groups playing keyboards and guitar for Dodgy, The Primitives, Voice Of The Beehive, The Connells and Paul Oakenfold’s Grace for whom Rob wrote the UK hit You’re Not Mine. Rob also had his own bands Vagabond Joy and Starpower signed to EMI and Rough Trade respectively. He spent five years as audio director of UK games company Perfect Entertainment and scored a series of number one titles for them as well as games for Disney, Eidos, Sega, Codemasters, Microsoft and numerous other publishers.

Rob has produced remixes for Catatonia, Shriekback, The French and Ant. He has released his own Krautrock influenced music under the name Ausgang as well as having appeared on two Mute Records produced collections of Electronica.

Filmography

Film
Title Company Notes
Apartment 12 Six Feet Under Films Theme song Down Down Down by Rob Lord. Starring Marc Ruffalo
Slipstream MPCA Full score. Starring Sean Astin and Vinnie Jones
Pumpkinhead 3 Ashes To Ashes MPCA Full Score. Starring Lance Henriksen
Pumpkinhead 4 Blood Feud MPCA Full score. Starring Lance Henriksen
The Fallow Field Industryworks Pictures Original music.
Writer’s Retreat Moli Films Full score And songs.
Dance Camp Awesomeness Pictures Score.
Troop Zero Amazon Studios Full Score and songs. Starring Viola Davis, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffney and Mckenna Grace
I Am Durán Universal Pictures Full Score. Featuring Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone
gollark: Just remove the fingerprint bit.
gollark: Maybe you can make it smaller if you strip out all the random historical retroviruses and retrotransposons. Unless it's analogous to really poorly written code and needs all of it or it'll break mysteriously on line 173012.
gollark: I mean, it's still probably small enough to fit on a cheap USB stick.
gollark: Epigenetic whatever?
gollark: I think I have Minecraft worlds bigger than a human genome somewhere.

References
  1. Lord's MySpace profile.
  2. Genes Reunited's results on Rob Lord.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.