Hoy, hoy! It only took 4 years to write our first review. (Applause) But if I don't want to be so strict with ourselves it only took 2. This was scheduled for a long time. So let me introduce our first review about the most anticipated release of trailer music world so far: Epicon. I must add if I would write this in 2006 I would have wrote some things otherwise. I decided to include into the article the effects of this release to the trailer music wolrd. It might seem that this revalues the album, but it is a great album anyway. (It might counted one star.) I also would like to thanks the contribution of greg and Mike who helped me out sometimes and checked my writing before the publishing.

"Globus. This word means a lot, but for those who have a clue what trailer music is, this word beats their heart. Globus was created by Yoav Goren in 2006 who is almost a semi-god in the trailer music business. Globus' live debut at Wembley's Grand Hall, in London, where they played songs from their first studio album Epicon, was an enormous success." Read more >>

Hoy, hoy! Besides setting up interviews with famous composers, we've some great announcements that were made in the past few days.

• Ryan Amon is working on the new volume of City of the Fallen called 'Exsilium'. The album will feature 13 tracks and will be released in March. "The music will follow the epic war between the angels in heaven, resulting in Lucifer and his followers' fall to earth." Amon also mentions that he has plans to put a public album together in the future.
• Globus' "Epic Live" CD has been released. Click here to buy it.

Hoy, hoy! Some informations from the world of trailer music.

• Brand X got a brand new webdesign. Here you can listen to their newest album, Volume 12. You can download the cover in high-resolution exclusively at TMN and listen to a track from this album, Last Days:  

• Ryan Amon working on Volume 2 of City of the Fallen library. One song, "As wings blot out the sun" , from this album is available on Facebook.
• Globus Epic Live's release is postponed till early February.
• Erik Ekholm shared a track from Brickwall Audio's new album.
• Fired Earth Music's third album, Fantazium, is dedicated to family adventure, fantasy style. The composer is Toby Chu. Do you want to know more?
• Some behind the scenes photos from Globus' upcoming studio album here and here.

Hoy, hoy! Yoav Goren revealed more details about Globus' upcoming albums. Globus' next release, "EPIC LIVE!", will feature 15 tracks including brand new songs which were only played on the concerts in Santa Monica and Wembley. The album is gonna available to purchase next Monday. 5 days to go!

For those who wonder what is the state of Globus next studio album. Yoav disclosed the release date: end of March 2010.

Hoy, hoy! As I read again Immediate Music’s latest announcements I realized they are worth much more consideration, here on TMN. Immediate Music revealed „that 3 Epic CDs coming over the next 3 months”.

As we already know that the first album will be Globus Live on January 18. The second will be a compilation from Immediate Music Library as they mentioned that they started choose the tracks on January 1st. 'Tho it's hard to believe that someone work on that day. Also IM is not very pleased with the name ’Trailerhead’ and opened to any suggestions. All in one Trailerhead 2 will be released in the next three months. The third album will be another release from Globus as it is claimed that they started working on it July 6th and started that it will be released early 2010. Probably these compositions will follow the style that was created by Epicon.

Something great is on our doorsteps and we see its signs: the promotional campaign started with the rework of Trailer Music Live’s website and with a trailer of Trailer Music Live. The trailer is very inspiring and it was very witty to put the definition of trailer music at the beginning in the good old Pulp Ficton style. The next three months will be very exciting and these are just the first three months of 2010. What next? Immediate Music signs more composers for Imperativa Records which means more epic music, but as they pen: “We're working hard to bring REAL and EMOTIONAL music to the market!!!”

Hoy, hoy! Tho' I am really busy nowdays at the university I still keep one of my eye on trailer music news. So let's see:

• X-ray Dog released a new album named 'Seeing Eye'.
• Globus announced that the live CD of Globus concert will be released on the 18th  of January. "Just finished mixing the last of the tracks!! Off to mastering now. Fun stuff..."
• Another news from Immediate Music: "3 Epic CDs coming over the next 3 months....starting with Globus Live on January 18. Pre-release offer on our website. And we're signing new artists as well. Busy time. We're working hard to bring REAL and EMOTIONAL music to the market!!!"
• An interesting article on Film Music Mag pictures the death of composing.
• Experimentalsounds.com revealed E.S. Posthumus 3rd album's name and its release date! Makara will contain 15 tracks and will be released the 2nd of February 2010. And those who intereseted what makara means, click. thx to shuyan & Tim
• TML lunched a new website! thx to azras11
• Thomas Bergersen confirmed that the so called "Blade Blade" track that is spreading amongst fans for a while now called "Black Blade". He also mentioned that "The albums [Nemesis2, Genesis, etc] will be available worldwide and be quite affordable, don’t worry. We are doing this purely to please our fans"

Hoy, hoy! Probably most of you got the newsletter from Imperativa Records, but if you don't then let me summarize it.

• They wish you happy holidays and bla bla bla...
• 25% discount during the holidays...
• an all in one box set...
• Pre-order offer of Trailer Music Live CD...
• and: "The year 2010 will be the busiest release schedule for Imperativa Records, as I'm excited to report that both Immediate and Globus will be finalizing their respective CDs in the early months of the year, in addition to one or two Live CD releases as well. [..]."
• And a random news: Distortion MX has a Facebook page.

Hoy, hoy! Probably you already know if you keep one eye on our Twitter, but I think the fact that Globus announced the release date of their new album deserves a post. Check Globus' Twitter or Facebook page.

GREAT NEWS!!! WE ARE RELEASING A NEW ALBUM IN EARLY 2010!!!

It's an amazing news, altough I think 'early 2010' can mean a lot.

Hoy, hoy! My favourite song from Epicon. I tired to gather all the historical facts from the lyrics.

From Agincourt to Waterloo
Poitiers and then Anjou
The Roses War, the Hundred Years
  Through battlefields of blood and teaysy

From Bosworth Field to Pointe Du Hoc
Stalingard and the siege of York
The bloody turf of Gallipoli
Had no effect on the killing spree

Bannockburn to Austerlitz
The fall of France and the German blitz
The cruelest of atrocities
  Europa's blood is born of these

Heaven help in all our battles
Heaven see love, heaven help us

Bolshevisks and feudal lords
Chivalry to civil wars
Fascist rule and genocide
Now we face the rising tide

Of new crusades, religious wars
Insurgents imported to our shores
The western world, gripped in fear
The mother of all battles here

Heaven help in all our battles
Heaven see love, heaven help us
Avant hier, avons être
Déja demain, (nous) sommes éclairée

All glory, all honor
Victory is upon us
Our savior, fight evil
Send armies to defend us

Empires built, and nations burned
Mass graves remain unturned
Decendants of the dispossessed
Return with bombs strapped to their chests

There's hate for life, and death in hate
Emerging from the new caliphate
The victors of this war on fear
Will rule for the next thousand years

All glory, all honor
Victory is upon us
Our savior, fight evil
Send armies to defend us
Europa, Europa
Find better days before us
In kindness, in spirit
Lead us to a greater calling

Europa, Europa
Find better days before us
In kindness, in spirit
Lead us to a greater calling

Lenigrad, Berlin wall
March on Rome, Byzantium's fall
Lightning war, Dresden nights
Drop the bomb, end this fight!

Never again!

I count 31.

Hoy, hoy! You probably read on Globus' MySpace page: "The show was a huge success." and you can even read there this one: "Keep an eye for more tour dates hopefully in the future!!" And as we are trying to be a good journalist and we couldn't make do with this less informations so we couldn't stop to ask Yoav Goren about his feelings after the concert:

I feel that TML came off quite well, considering that I was quite concerned the entire day during the dress rehearsal and sound check. The orchestra had it's best performance during the show compared to the rehearsals, and the choir was simply - awesome. I can't say enough good things about the dedication, passion and musicianship of the Angeles Chorale. Our conductor John Sutton was incredible in working over 100 musicians together as a tight unit, and drummer Todd Waetzig was the glue and the power behind the dense orchestral rock sound.
For me, there were two very important and seemingly distant goals for the first TML - to get the live sound close to the recorded material, and to have an eager public response to such an exotic cultural event enough to fill up the theatre. In this regard, I consider the Broad Stage TML to be a success! I was, and my trusted sound engineer and other associates, very happy with the live sound - powerful, full, with clarity and separation, and not "hurting your ears" loud. The live mix was indeed able to capture the balance of all the instruments and convey the emotion of the material. The sell out crowd (with people without pre-sold tickets being turned away at the door) was really able to get an essence of what Immediate and Globus' epic music is about. I was humbled to encounter a four minute standing ovation at the end of the show from the audience.

So now (actually tomorrow) we begin the process of putting together all the video, photos and other promotional material together into a press kit which will serve as our calling card for possible future TML in other venues in both the US and Europe. It will be a long road to travel, but I am very encouraged by the musical outcome of TML, and I know the audience really responded well to it. Already I have people in the UK and Germany starting to generate interest in TML. As I said, it will take a while to build up interest, but I am hopeful.