Cinematic Giants
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The #1 blog for music that fits in film, games, & shows.
Curating cinematic sounds and beyond.
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Curating cinematic sounds and beyond.
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Billy Bobak writes like someone catching memories in real time. Based in London and holding down a full-time job as a doctor, he’s building a parallel life as a songwriter, folding classic British alt-rock DNA into something more loose... cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/20/b...
Billy Bobak – Billy Wakes Up
Billy Bobak writes like someone catching memories in real time. Based in London and holding down a full-time job as a doctor, he’s building a parallel life as a songwriter, folding classic British …
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November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Billy Bobak writes like someone catching memories in real time. Based in London and holding down a full-time job as a doctor, he’s building a parallel life as a songwriter, folding classic British alt-rock DNA into something more loose... cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/20/b...
Steel & Velvet build their world from very simple tools: one deep voice, two guitars, and a lot of air around them. Formed by singer Johann Le Roux and guitarist Romuald Ballet-Baz and later joined by Jean-Alain Larreur. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/20/s...
Steel & Velvet – People Just Float
Steel & Velvet build their world from very simple tools: one deep voice, two guitars, and a lot of air around them. Formed by singer Johann Le Roux and guitarist Romuald Ballet-Baz and later jo…
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November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Steel & Velvet build their world from very simple tools: one deep voice, two guitars, and a lot of air around them. Formed by singer Johann Le Roux and guitarist Romuald Ballet-Baz and later joined by Jean-Alain Larreur. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/20/s...
Sharon Ruchman has been writing for piano and strings for years, but From the Heart marks the first time she’s narrowed the frame to just violin and piano for a full release.
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Sharon Ruchman – From the Heart
Sharon Ruchman has been writing for piano and strings for years, but From the Heart marks the first time she’s narrowed the frame to just violin and piano for a full release. It’s a focused setup t…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Sharon Ruchman has been writing for piano and strings for years, but From the Heart marks the first time she’s narrowed the frame to just violin and piano for a full release.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/16/s...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/16/s...
Eyal Erlich has been building his name through shows and a writing style that stays close to the way he plays: direct, plainspoken, and shaped around the voice. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/16/e...
Eyal Erlich – Live at Levontin #2
Eyal Erlich has been building his name through shows and a writing style that stays close to the way he plays: direct, plainspoken, and shaped around the voice. The Levontin #2 session shows him wi…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Eyal Erlich has been building his name through shows and a writing style that stays close to the way he plays: direct, plainspoken, and shaped around the voice. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/16/e...
Nico Guzzi is one of those Italian multi-hyphenates who never picked a single lane. He has written rock records, instrumental albums, film cues, short stories, and poetry, moving between bands, soundtracks, and competitions with the same restlessness. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/n...
Nico Guzzi Finds Motion in Stillness on “Her Temptations”
Nico Guzzi is one of those Italian multi-hyphenates who never picked a single lane. He has written rock records, instrumental albums, film cues, short stories, and poetry, moving between bands, sou…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nico Guzzi is one of those Italian multi-hyphenates who never picked a single lane. He has written rock records, instrumental albums, film cues, short stories, and poetry, moving between bands, soundtracks, and competitions with the same restlessness. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/n...
The Higher Desires is the kind of project that treats rock songs like messages in a bottle. Led by Seattle songwriter and producer William Walbaum, the band leans into classic alt rock and garage tones but keeps its focus on people rather than pose. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/t...
The Higher Desires – Unknown Soldiers (Veterans Edition)
The Higher Desires is the kind of project that treats rock songs like messages in a bottle. Led by Seattle songwriter and producer William Walbaum, the band leans into classic alt rock and garage t…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Higher Desires is the kind of project that treats rock songs like messages in a bottle. Led by Seattle songwriter and producer William Walbaum, the band leans into classic alt rock and garage tones but keeps its focus on people rather than pose. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/t...
Rosemary Schultz came to music late and sideways. The Ohio-born, Nashville-based singer served in the military before she ever wrote a song, picking up a guitar afterwards as a way to sort through what was left in her head. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/r...
Rosemary Schultz – Run With The Wolves
Rosemary Schultz came to music late and sideways. The Ohio-born, Nashville-based singer served in the military before she ever wrote a song, picking up a guitar afterwards as a way to sort through …
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November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Rosemary Schultz came to music late and sideways. The Ohio-born, Nashville-based singer served in the military before she ever wrote a song, picking up a guitar afterwards as a way to sort through what was left in her head. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/r...
Karen Salicath Jamali is a Danish-born, US-based composer-pianist with a long trail of serene solo releases and a clear feel for mood.
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Karen Salicath Jamali – Angel Trio EP
Karen Salicath Jamali is a Danish-born, US-based composer-pianist with a long trail of serene solo releases and a clear feel for mood. Her work lives where prayer, lullaby, and étude overlap: simpl…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Karen Salicath Jamali is a Danish-born, US-based composer-pianist with a long trail of serene solo releases and a clear feel for mood.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/k...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/14/k...
Gianfranco Malorgio comes from the Django school. Years of classical guitar study, Hot Club Roma, work with Dario Pinelli, film soundtrack sessions… he’s one of those Italian players who can move from Manouche swing to screen music without dropping tone. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/g...
Gianfranco Malorgio – AIMLESSLY
Gianfranco Malorgio comes from the Django school. Years of classical guitar study, Hot Club Roma, work with Dario Pinelli, film soundtrack sessions… he’s one of those Italian players who can move f…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Gianfranco Malorgio comes from the Django school. Years of classical guitar study, Hot Club Roma, work with Dario Pinelli, film soundtrack sessions… he’s one of those Italian players who can move from Manouche swing to screen music without dropping tone. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/g...
Junifer is an alt-pop/folktronica songwriter out of Chico who’s been threading together electronic feel and storytelling since A Little Late.
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Junifer – Thoughts For The Night
Junifer is an alt-pop/folktronica songwriter out of Chico who’s been threading together electronic feel and storytelling since A Little Late. Their thing is small scenes, not big gestures: domestic…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Junifer is an alt-pop/folktronica songwriter out of Chico who’s been threading together electronic feel and storytelling since A Little Late.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/j...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/j...
Stevie Hawkins has spent decades inside American roots music — drumming for Albert King and John Lee Hooker, fronting his own bands, producing other people’s records, stacking awards. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/s...
Stevie Hawkins – A Song For You
Stevie Hawkins has spent decades inside American roots music — drumming for Albert King and John Lee Hooker, fronting his own bands, producing other people’s records, stacking awards. He’s one of t…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Stevie Hawkins has spent decades inside American roots music — drumming for Albert King and John Lee Hooker, fronting his own bands, producing other people’s records, stacking awards. cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/s...
Bite The Boxer is the project of Dorset producer Matt Park, a guy who clearly sits in his studio asking, “How far can I wreck this sound and still have it be music?”
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Bite The Boxer – Haunted Remains Pt. 2
Bite The Boxer is the project of Dorset producer Matt Park, a guy who clearly sits in his studio asking, “How far can I wreck this sound and still have it be music?” Since 2020 he’s been building t…
cinematicgiants.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bite The Boxer is the project of Dorset producer Matt Park, a guy who clearly sits in his studio asking, “How far can I wreck this sound and still have it be music?”
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/b...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/07/b...
Toronto pianist Eddy Ruyter has spent most of his career supporting other artists, but his solo work shows he doesn’t need a band to tell a story. Waves (Deluxe) is him on piano first, everything else second.
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Eddy Ruyter – Waves (Deluxe)
Toronto pianist Eddy Ruyter has spent most of his career supporting other artists, but his solo work shows he doesn’t need a band to tell a story. Waves (Deluxe) is him on piano first, everything e…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Toronto pianist Eddy Ruyter has spent most of his career supporting other artists, but his solo work shows he doesn’t need a band to tell a story. Waves (Deluxe) is him on piano first, everything else second.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/04/e...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/04/e...
Natalie Farrell calls herself The Cosmic Songbird, and it fits. She started in classical voice at the Royal Northern College of Music, moved into writing and spoken work with her book Light the Way, and now folds both into music.
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Cosmic Songbird & Frances Yonge – No Longer Lost
Natalie Farrell calls herself The Cosmic Songbird, and it fits. She started in classical voice at the Royal Northern College of Music, moved into writing and spoken work with her book Light the Way…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Natalie Farrell calls herself The Cosmic Songbird, and it fits. She started in classical voice at the Royal Northern College of Music, moved into writing and spoken work with her book Light the Way, and now folds both into music.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/03/c...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/11/03/c...
Kat Koan writes like someone who’s spent years framing emotion for the camera. Before music, she worked in TV, building scenes and mood, and you can hear that in everything she does. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/k...
Kat Koan – The Tides Will Turn
Kat Koan writes like someone who’s spent years framing emotion for the camera. Before music, she worked in TV, building scenes and mood, and you can hear that in everything she does. Her projects j…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Kat Koan writes like someone who’s spent years framing emotion for the camera. Before music, she worked in TV, building scenes and mood, and you can hear that in everything she does. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/k...
James Laurent comes out of Milwaukee by way of Los Angeles, where he splits his time between building high-end sound for other people and chasing his own. He’s 25, already sitting on an RIAA Gold credit, and has engineered for major rappers and TV shows. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/j...
James Laurent – “Midnight Speeding”
James Laurent comes out of Milwaukee by way of Los Angeles, where he splits his time between building high-end sound for other people and chasing his own. He’s 25, already sitting on an RIAA Gold c…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
James Laurent comes out of Milwaukee by way of Los Angeles, where he splits his time between building high-end sound for other people and chasing his own. He’s 25, already sitting on an RIAA Gold credit, and has engineered for major rappers and TV shows. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/j...
Bright Shining Lights is a New Jersey project built around cinematic rock. The band writes like they’re scoring a story instead of chasing a playlist slot. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/b...
Bright Shining Lights – The Sun Is A Star
Bright Shining Lights is a New Jersey project built around cinematic rock. The band writes like they’re scoring a story instead of chasing a playlist slot. The Sun Is A Star is their second full-le…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Bright Shining Lights is a New Jersey project built around cinematic rock. The band writes like they’re scoring a story instead of chasing a playlist slot. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/b...
OLI is a London-based artist who grew up between New Jersey and the UK. Her music moves between pop and film-score territory, built from piano, strings, and quiet emotion.
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OLI – When It All Goes Quiet
OLI is a London-based artist who grew up between New Jersey and the UK. Her music moves between pop and film-score territory, built from piano, strings, and quiet emotion. She’s performed at festiv…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
OLI is a London-based artist who grew up between New Jersey and the UK. Her music moves between pop and film-score territory, built from piano, strings, and quiet emotion.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/o...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/30/o...
Gianfranco Malorgio has spent decades moving between jazz, film, and classical guitar. Based in Rome, he’s played with figures from the Gypsy Jazz world like Dorado Schmitt and Angelo Debarre, and his background shows in the precision of his writing.
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Gianfranco Malorgio – “Vanitas”
Gianfranco Malorgio has spent decades moving between jazz, film, and classical guitar. Based in Rome, he’s played with figures from the Gypsy Jazz world like Dorado Schmitt and Angelo Debarre, and …
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October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Gianfranco Malorgio has spent decades moving between jazz, film, and classical guitar. Based in Rome, he’s played with figures from the Gypsy Jazz world like Dorado Schmitt and Angelo Debarre, and his background shows in the precision of his writing.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/29/g...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/29/g...
Exzenya is a dark-pop artist and writer with a background in psychology. She builds her songs around emotion and observation, looking at how people lose and regain a sense of self. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/29/e...
Exzenya – Captivity
Exzenya is a dark-pop artist and writer with a background in psychology. She builds her songs around emotion and observation, looking at how people lose and regain a sense of self. Everything she r…
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October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Exzenya is a dark-pop artist and writer with a background in psychology. She builds her songs around emotion and observation, looking at how people lose and regain a sense of self. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/29/e...
Christchurch composer Mark Sutton’s Odyssey starts with a simple piano idea that grows into strings and choir. It moves at its own pace, steady and cinematic, built on tone and space. Feels real, handmade, and quietly powerful.
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Mark Sutton – Odyssey
Christchurch-based composer and pianist Mark Sutton builds his music around tone, balance, and atmosphere. Odyssey opens with a soft piano figure that sets the scene in a quiet, open space. As stri…
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October 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Christchurch composer Mark Sutton’s Odyssey starts with a simple piano idea that grows into strings and choir. It moves at its own pace, steady and cinematic, built on tone and space. Feels real, handmade, and quietly powerful.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/27/m...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/27/m...
Los Angeles composer and producer Chris Wirsig has built a catalog defined by experimentation across electronic, orchestral, and cinematic styles.
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cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/c...
Chris Wirsig – “Water Into Fire”
Los Angeles composer and producer Chris Wirsig has built a catalog defined by experimentation across electronic, orchestral, and cinematic styles. On his new single “Water Into Fire,” recorded enti…
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October 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Los Angeles composer and producer Chris Wirsig has built a catalog defined by experimentation across electronic, orchestral, and cinematic styles.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/c...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/c...
For You Brother is the project of John, a musician from Aiken, South Carolina, who plays every instrument on his debut single “Fly Away.” It’s his first instrumental release, recorded at home with layers of piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums.
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cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/f...
For You Brother – “Fly Away”
For You Brother is the project of John, a musician from Aiken, South Carolina, who plays every instrument on his debut single “Fly Away.” It’s his first instrumental release, recorded at home with …
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October 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For You Brother is the project of John, a musician from Aiken, South Carolina, who plays every instrument on his debut single “Fly Away.” It’s his first instrumental release, recorded at home with layers of piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/f...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/f...
Joshua Ross, who records as <3peace., makes music that moves between spiritual reflection and modern pop production. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/3...
<3peace. – “ROSE PETAL”
Joshua Ross, who records as <3peace., makes music that moves between spiritual reflection and modern pop production. Based in Columbia, South Carolina, he produces, performs, and engineers his o…
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October 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Joshua Ross, who records as <3peace., makes music that moves between spiritual reflection and modern pop production. cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/3...
Frank Renfordt has built The Cumberland River Project around steady songwriting and collaboration.
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The Cumberland River Project – “Turquoise Blue”
Frank Renfordt has built The Cumberland River Project around steady songwriting and collaboration. A native of Hagen, Germany, he began writing songs as a kid and later found his way back to music …
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October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Frank Renfordt has built The Cumberland River Project around steady songwriting and collaboration.
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/t...
cinematicgiants.com/2025/10/18/t...