Adrian FaulknerFantasy Author

This week is a bit busy with starting a new day job. However, I did want to share this piece of music with you. As you know, I’m a huge Two Steps From Hell fan, and if you love orchestral soundtracks, their albums are some of the best released in recent years. Hard to think that they’re just a commercial outfit producing music solely to be used in trailers, everything from the last Star Trek movie trailer to the latest Mass Effect 3 one.

I do loads of writing to their two publically available albums but recently found this track by them that hasn’t been released outside of the industry. Anyways, this might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s been buzzing round my head for the last couple of days.

Busy today on some real life things, so I thought I’d leave everyone with some music. Following a Twitter comment by Will Hill, author of the brilliant Department 19, I’ve dug out my old 1977 album by Ash. Here’s my favourite track from the album: Oh Yeah

Busy day today, and currently preparing for a busy day tomorrow, so I’ll just leave you with a music video. Enjoy! And Happy 2012!

This is currently what I’m writing epic fantasy to. Yes, I know this track doesn’t really lend itself to fantasy, but then this isn’t the normal type of epic fantasy. It’s from the Tron Legacy Soundtrack which I really recommend to those of you who like listening to soundtracks whilst you write.

I’ve been listening to this constantly for the last couple of days.

Something to chill out to for the weekend.

Mark Charan Newton talks about some of his favourite orchestral pieces over on his blog. I’m a big fan of orchestral music to write to and have a library of movie soundtracks I can call on depending on the mood of the scene I’m writing.

Something light and thoughtful might call for Lady in the Water or I, Legend. Something a bit more mysterious might call for something like The Fountain. Or if I want to blow shit up there’s soundtracks like Stardust.

But, with apologies for people who saw this on the old blog, the album I’ve been writing to solidly for the last few weeks is Two Steps From Hell’s Invincible.

Two Steps From Hell are a company that specialise in writing music for movie trailers. They’ve never scored a film and this is their first album (released due to public demand). They are effectively music for hire. But what music!

And my favourite…

I love the title of this song and vow that one day I will use it as a story title

I love it when I have iTunes on random and a track comes on where I don’t recognise the track and wonder where I got it from.

I picked up the OneRepublic album for Apologise, but this track is just the right level of chill out for a Monday morning.

I’m listening to the entire album right now, as I don’t think I gave it a fair shot when I bought it.