Bells and Wizards: Something Epic is Coming!
Founded in June 2011, Bells and Wizards is a brand new company, dedicated to trailer music, but not only: it also focuses on design, as two of the founders and composers, Ryo Ishido and Dirk Elhert, are graphic artists as well. “Bells and Wizards” is the virtual home of composer and graphic artist Ryo Ishido (Hamburg/Germany), composer Russell Bell (Essex/UK) and composer and graphic artist Dirk Ehlert (Berlin/Germany).”
Here is their promo teaser:
To help you get an idea of the musical vision of Bell and Wizards, here is the preview track that they shared yesterday: it’s epic, and promising.
Bells and Wizards is currently working on its first release. Apparently, the three composers already have many ideas, but they would also love to work with fans on three of the tracks of this upcoming album. If, as a fan, you are interested, all you have to do is to submit a melody. No arrangement is required, only an (outstanding) melody! Here’s the message that they shared on Facebook:
“Dear friends,
since the foundation of Bells and Wizards in June 2011 it took nearly a year with the plan of our musical vision and what we are going to do as and with the sum of the pieces that we are. We are now at the point to go public with what we wanna do – and best of it – make YOU become a part of it. More on that in a second.
Bells and Wizards is a joint venture between Russell Bell, Ryo Ishido and Dirk Ehlert. 3 musical minds that have come together to put their different musical backgrounds into one joint venture. The musical styles that the 3 derive from couldn’t be more different, which luckily means that a combined project results in a broad mixture of styles, genres and musical views. From now on B&W will start working on their first album for sync (lets not call it a “Trailermusic album” in the common sense, since it will become quite different, but you get the point…). We will make this process as public as possible to give back a part of the fun that we are going to have making this album anyway. Since all 3 of us are working media professionals this album is more like a playground for our very own musical personality, ideas and visions. The updates will be posted here and on a dedicated blog which will be available soon.
Back to the part that means YOU 🙂 Apart from tracks that we do together for the album we have the idea of having 3 tracks on the album that are based on the same idea – YOUR idea. We want you to provide a simple melody, either whistled, played on piano, guitar whatever – no chords, no arrangement – just a pure simple melody. What we wanna do is work individually on this draft to come up with three different tracks that each represent our own musical visions. Of course you will be credited and registered with all necessities as a co-writer for these 3 tracks. From all the submissions we will (hopefully) get, we will do a preselection and let you decide through an online voting who the winner would be. Hand in your submission here on the wall within the next 4 weeks, the voting will start on June 30th. This is goin to be a lot of fun.
Talk soon, Russ, Ryo & Dirk”
Feel free to follow Bells and Wizards on Facebook for updates. You can also visit their Soundcloud for more music!
Truth is, this guy had an internet design company in Germany in which he bilked tens of thousands of dollars from both clients and web designers in Europe and the U.S.—our company being one of them. He conveniently changed his name from Ingo Ramin to Ryo Ishido and is now doing music.