Carlos Severe Marcelin: Music, Guitars, Bass, Sequencing, Synth, Loops, Other Sounds
Influences
NEWS
2009: My Dirty Left Foot, a 15 minute musical travel film released. Produced by Carlos.
2009: Toy Room, the rock opera by Sally Tomato, cowritten by Carlos is in the film festival circuit:
WINNER - Accolade Award of Excellence for Feature film
WINNER - The Indie Fest Award of Merit for Soundtrack
WINNER - Heart of England Film Festival Best Feature Under 75 Min
WINNER - Swansea Bay Film Festival Best Music Based Video
NOMINATED - British Film Festival Los Angeles
OFFICIAL SELECTION - New Beijing International Movie Week
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Urban Suburban Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - International Film Festival Cairo
OFFICIAL SELECTION - International Film Festival Thailand
OFFICIAL SELECTION - International Film Festival South Africa www.toyroomrockopera.com
October 2008: 2 compositions used in the bike documentary, Veer, featuring Matthew Modine as Narrator.
April 2006: Billboard World Music Awards Honorable Mention for Talbot the Winged Warrior, from the album "The Instrument Cried, Play Me" at 2006 awards. Check the song out at www.severeenterprises.com
CARLOS SEVERE MARCELIN "... a truly brilliant guitarist" writes SP Clarke about this emerging American composer whose varied style takes different musical incarnations. A Music Composition and Theory student under Polish Composer Barbara Jazwinski, his work crosses genre between the symphonic, modern rock, the ancient, eastern, western and the surreal. He created the musical score for Sally Tomato's "Toy Room" and has had 7 other CD releases as well as numerous unpublished chamber pieces to his credit. Carlos performed with New Orleans based sextet Silkenseed and currently plays with Portland, Oregon trio Sally Tomato in addition to performing his works in solo format and with his lifelong drummer, Eric Flint, in the duo Pidgin.
Just when you’re settling into a comfortable bed of musical fabric woven from lush aural textures, industrial percussion may sneak in, or more than a surprise-worth of unexpected twists may come into play. Using occasional dissonance and dramatic harmonies alternating the obscure with the accessible, Carlos Severe Marcelin's music leaves an indelible expression on the ear of the listener.
Current projects include:
- the promotion of the feature-length film of Sally Tomato's "Toy Room" throughout the festival circuit. Carlos co-authored the script and wrote most of the soundtrack. The film is slated for release in summer of 2009.
- in the studio with Pidgin recording "Planets", a song cycle.
- composing the indeterminate soundtrack for the installation piece T.E.D. (transforming emotional deconstruction), a multimedia work by Sean Hathaway.
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