Carl King has just released "Best Of Five: The Classic Tetris Champions - End Credits" through Bandcamp.
It's a teaser for the upcoming full-length score album.
Music he wrote for a documentary series on Tetris.
It's been a while since I've posted a Carl King update.
Carl is on Patreon nowadays, but he did send a short newsflash last week:
I've been scoring a documentary series called BEST OF FIVE. It's about a legendary Classic Nintendo Tetris tournament that happened back in 2014.
I'm publicly sharing a full-length, rough version of a cue called "Jonas Is Different." It's named after the long-time Tetris champ Jonas Neubauer, who unfortunately passed away before the show could be completed. He was a cool guy, and I wish he could have heard this track!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/best-of-five-is-101722735
You'll hear lots of my Rickenbacker bass through my Tech21 Geddy Lee pedal. It reminds me of the old Sir Millard Mulch days with the staccato 7/8 time signature and Lydian mode. (The riff reminds me of "Goodnight!" if anyone remembers that one.) And stick around after the pause around 4:00, because there's more at the end.
After the documentary is released in the coming months, I'm going to take my favorite musical cues, polish them up with some overdubs, mix them for stand-alone listening, and release a score album. (And maybe even make Travis Orbin play all the drums. We'll see!)
The Carl King podcast, episode 56.
Where Carl discusses Mike Keneally's 'Potato'
Musical Analysis of Trey Spruance / Secret Chiefs 3 "The End Times".
And a discussion of the "Picard" TV series episode 3 of season 3 (spoiler alert !)
takes a closer (music theory!) look at Danny Elfman's 'The Simpsons Main Theme'.
Nice.
Trevor Dunn has a new album out.
With his Trio Convulsant.
Called "Séances".
Here's 'Saint-Médard':
And Trevor discussing the album with Carl King:
Early 2019, Carl King started a Kickstarter project to be able to produce a pilot episode for "That Monster Show", an animated series.
Carl King created and wrote "That Monster Show", and he also wrote the music !!
It was animated by Lance Myers, with voices by Joanie Brosas, LeeAnna Vamp, Dan Foster, Laila Berzins, Mark Borchart, Julia Aks and Cole Johnson.
As a backer, I received the Blu-ray with the pilot episode last week.
Quite a story actually. A couple of months ago, I got informed by Belgian Customs that I had to pay import and handling fees for a package from the US. Despite the fact that I paid, they returned the package to sender. Their mistake, they admitted, and they would even refund my fee. But they wouldn't refund the postage costs for the package to be sent again.
Anyway, the complete exercise started again from scratch (thank you, Carl), and I received the Blu-ray last week.
Carl King produced and scored "Mr. Gradville", a radio drama written by Mark Borchardt.
Starring Julia Aks and Dan Foster.
Poster art by Lance Myers.
Directed and musical score by Carl King.
Carl King has just released the original score for "That Monster Show" through Bandcamp.
"That Monster Show", as you might recall, is an animation movie that was created, written and scored by Carl King, and animated by Lance Myers.
It sounds great. Give it a listen.
Here's the actual movie:
That Monster Show Release Date: October 3, 2020
