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York, NY (November 6, 2005)
In
the second season of "The Brini Maxwell Show," which began
on October 30th on the Style Network, vintage home design and fashion
impresario, Brini Maxwell, delivers her unique design tips to a
particularly groovy musical backdrop provided by NYC's G&E Music.
G&E's musician/composers really did the time warp on this project,
producing background music to suit the Carol Brady-meets-Martha
Stewart Brini character through all of her varied escapades. In
total, G&E produced nearly 100 tracks of Brini-flavored music
for the 13-episode series, an entire custom music library for the
show, used for each episode’s background, incidental and features
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| To
set the musical tone for "The Brini Maxwell Show" in the
first season, the show's producers licensed library production music,
matching 1950s-60s radio pop music to Brini's unique style and attitude.
When the network re-upped the show, the producers hired G&E
to write the whole second season's music, emulating that branded
sound and taking it to all of the new and interesting places Brini
had in store for her audience. G&E's Erik Blicker describes
the general style as "non-counter-culture pop, 1950s-60s white
bread radio--a Brady Bunch jazz, Burt Bacharach kind of sound."
G&E worked with "The Brini Maxwell Show" writer/producer
Julie Harman, who led them through each episode's themes, providing
musical direction along the way. According to Harman, G&E more
than met the expectations of the show's producers. "We handed
G&E a rather specific mission, in terms of musical vocabulary,
and they were not only able to create a consistent feel when their
tracks were compared to earlier things we used, but more importantly,
they brought their own unique interpretation to our requests,"
says Harman.
Re-producing
the consistent "period" music for "The Brini Maxwell
Show" was only part one of the project for G&E. "In
addition to the one familiar thread-that poppy 50s-60s era sound--that
ran throughout the series, there were many different themes within
that, in each episode," says G&E's Glenn Schloss, describing,
"there was a colonial Brini show, so we got the Fife &
Drums thing happening, then a camping show, a Hawaii-themed episode,
a hippie-themed show, and more." |
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Schloss,
Blicker, and G&E associate producer/house pianist Elliot Sneider
turned G&E's NYC studio into "Brini" central over
six months, writing and performing music on live instruments rather
than using MIDI orchestration and looping, and bringing in session
horn players for a lot of the tracks
Blicker describes some of the particularly challenging themes: "For
the Hawaii show, I had to search NYC for a good ukulele and learn
how to play it, and Glenn simulated coconut drums on these little
drums we found. For the Hippie-themed episode, I borrowed a sitar
from my friend and learnedhow to
tune and play that."
G&E's
enthusiasm did not go unnoticed. "Hands down, the G&E guys
have the most 'can-do' attitude of any group I've worked with,"
says Harman. "They don't try to just fob off stuff they may
have created for other clients as being 'right' for your project,
and they don't freak out at the tight deadlines." Harman was
also impressed by G&E's creativity and command over the variety
of musical styles. She adds, "In many cases, they exceeded
our expectations, sometimes because of their choices of instrumentation,
sometimes because they would take a tried-and-true musical idiom
and twist it,
which we love. Harman even shares some of her personal favorite
tracks from G&E: songs including "BriniCha," "Quichenomelody,"
"Duck Sweater," and the tracks used for the "That's
So Brini" tips segments. Check out the show on Sundays at 6
EST on The Style Network.
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| G&E
Music is a full-service music and audio post production house in
New York City, equipped with a Pro Tools HD2 system to accommodate
both recording and mixing sessions. A valued source of original
music, sound design, and audio post for television, film, and radio,
G&E can create custom music libraries like the one used in “The
Brini Maxwell Show” series for your next project!
For more information and G&E’s demo reel,
visit www.gemusic.com
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