Musical Oddities Inspired By Little Big Planet by Daniel Pemberton

Last week I posted about the Music of Little Big Planet and for some strange reason I completely forgot to even mention Daniel Pemberton... a very poor show on my part.

Who is Daniel Pemberton I hear you ask? Well, as well as the 11 tracks I mentioned in my previous post on the music of Little Big Planet, there is - as I'm sure you've noticed - a whole lot more music crammed into LittleBigPlanet. Most of which has been written by The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra.

Daniel sent us a rather nice e-mail a few weeks back to tell us all about his recently released download soundtrack album entitled Little Big Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By LittleBigPlanet.

As fans of his quirky and innovative TV music - bringing together everything from  turntables to orchestras, bendy rulers to moog synthesizers - the game's developer,  Media Molecule, initially approached British composer Daniel Pemberton just to write  music for the game's opening sequence ('The Orb Of Dreamers'). However with his  musical style so in tune with the ethos of the LittleBIGPlanet world Daniel ended up  contributing about 40% of the game's soundtrack under the alias of The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra.

When asked what his influences are Daniel cites 1950’s cocktail music, British children’s TV and composers such as Esquivel, Jon Brion, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and Mark Mothersbaugh as influences.

This distinctive score that Daniel and his Orchestra have created for Little Big Planet features an innovative, childish and quirky mix of Mellotron choirs, twangy guitars, turntables, toy organ loops, ukuleles, synths and pizzicato cellos. Many of the tracks on this album will be instantly recognisable to any of the millions of gamers who regularly play LittleBIGPlanet.

In fact, do you perchance recognize this little BIG tune

Alongside the eleven tracks featured in the game this unique eighteen track album also features other material that didn’t make the final product, as well as an exclusive specially extended version of the game’s wondrous opening music ‘The Orb Of Dreamers’. The cover has been designed by Rex Crowle, one of the lead artists on the game.

Little BIG Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By LittleBIGPlanet was released on iTunes and all other major digital retailers via 1812 Recordings on the 15th December 2008. Make sure you go and order your copy right now, it is the law!

More About Daniel Pemberton

Daniel Pemberton is the BAFTA nominated composer behind many of the themes and sounds you hear everyday, from TV to film, adverts to videogames, installations to fashion shows. His credits include everything from cult comedy series (Peep Show, Suburban Shootout) to mainstream reality shows (Hells Kitchen, Love Island, Bad Lads Army); acclaimed dramas such as 10 Days To War (Starring Kenneth Branagh and Tom Conti), Born With Two Mothers (starring Sophie Okonedo and Lesley Sharp) and Vincent Van Gogh biopic The Yellow House (starring John Simm) to BAFTA and Emmy award winning documentaries (Hiroshima , George Orwell - A Life In Pictures); top rated lifestyle programmes (Great British Menu) to big budget family adventures (Prehistoric Park); He has scored videogames for Peter Molyneux (The Movies), catwalk shows for Vivienne Westwood and art installations for Turner Prize nominees.

His ability to jump genres effortlessly yet still bring a unique and recognizable sound to every project saw him named as 'one of the hottest people working in television today' by Broadcast magazine, who praised him as 'a composer prepared to take risks'. TVPOPMUZIK, a compilation album of his TV work released in 2007, was acclaimed not only by the press - with quotes from papers such as The Guardian proclaiming `A British Danny Elfman` and `The composing cross breed of John Barry and DJ Shadow` - but also by artists as diverse as David Arnold and the lead singer of The Guillemots.

He recently completed work on his first feature film score `Big Kiss` - a diamond heist caper starring Billy Zane (Titanic, Dead Calm) as well as writing additional music for Nick Broomfield`s award winning feature Battle For Haditha. At this year`s Grierson awards Daniel had scored music for three of the four films in the Best Drama category.

He has just completed the soundtrack to `Clone` - a new comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce from the producers of Friends and The Office and is currently working on `Occupation` - a three hour drama about the Iraq war for the BBC, `Runaway` a children`s film from Emmy winning director Paul Wilmshurst and a as yet-untitled feature debut from acclaimed upcoming director and BAFTA winner Gareth Edwards for Vertigo Films.

There is more information at www.danielpemberton.com and www.myspace.com/danielpemberton

There is also a video feature at Channel 4`s 4Talent site.

Thank you for all your great music Daniel, we at Little Big Land are big fans!

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