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Featured Soloist on TWISTED JUKEBOX Trailer Album
December 21st, 2014
Apparently December is ALBUM MONTH! I had the great privilege of singing on composer Jeff Ball's beautiful Valour of Athena track for Twisted Jukebox's album of epic trailer music that features solo female vocals. I recorded the track back in the spring when I had a nasty cold, so if you dig the breathy quality, the secret is: bronchitis! ;-) Jeff is one of my favorite composers to work with, and in this track his sense of drama and emotional build really shines. I really enjoyed listening to the other tracks on this album as well, such a wide variety of beautiful, inspiring female voices. Check them out! Yeah ladies! GIRL POWER!
And even better: Jeff's track was already licensed for a trailer a few months ago! Check it out below :) Congratulations Jeff for your first trailer placement!!
And even better: Jeff's track was already licensed for a trailer a few months ago! Check it out below :) Congratulations Jeff for your first trailer placement!!
Posted 12/27/2014
Harmony of Heroes: Final Smash
HoH Bonus Album Released
December 25th, 2014
Happy Holidays from the Harmony of Heroes team! They just released their bonus album FINAL SMASH, a collection of tracks featuring music that didn't appear on the HoH main album. With appearances by Sonic, Mega Man, Pac-Man and more, this album is super fun listening and features work by the most dedicated HoH artists. Some of these tracks were completed in just a few days, including the track I contributed to! Stephan Wells' Super Mario Galaxy arrangement "To the Stars" was put together in just about 48 hours, and it was my honor to help out with a little flute recording :)
Hope you check out and enjoy ALL of the tracks on this great bonus album as we ring in the new year!
Posted 12/26/2014
Hope you check out and enjoy ALL of the tracks on this great bonus album as we ring in the new year!
Posted 12/26/2014
In Endless Song & Color Me Blue
Featured Flutist On Josephine Sanges' New Album Releases
December 12th, 2014
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My good friend Josephine Sanges has put up two of her albums for download on Loudr.fm! In Endless Song, an album of faith-inspired music, was actually recorded in 2013, while Color Me Blue, a compilation of intricately arranged American jazz standards, was her project in 2014. Each deals with a different genre of music, but both perfectly showcase Josephine's crystal clear vocals and pianist/arranger John Cook's creative arrangements and intimate piano performance. I contributed on flute and background vocals for a few tracks, and I couldn't be prouder of my friends Josephine and John for working so hard on such difficult arrangements. This was one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on and I'm so excited that they can share their talents on Loudr!
Posted 12/13/2014
Posted 12/13/2014
Encore Performance!
Josephine Sanges Live at Metropolitan Room
New York, NY
December 30th, 2014
Our sold-out November performance was so much fun, we're doing it again! ;-) Josephine Sanges will be putting on another concert at the Metropolitan Room in NYC, featuring the music of her newly-released album Color Me Blue. I'll be pitching in on flute again, and I can't wait to play John Cook's amazing arrangements of American jazz standards and musical numbers. If you missed the last performance, make your reservations now before the room fills up! $20 cover and two drink minimum. Hope to see you there!
Posted 12/7/2014
Posted 12/7/2014
Video Games Live: Level 4
Kickstarter Goal Reached!
Funding Ends November 28th, 2014
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Congratulations to Video Games Live for achieving its Kickstarter goal! The album will officially be recorded this December in Prague, for a release next year. There are still a few days left to pledge, and Tommy has just posted an update with mock-ups of a few tracks from the albums, including Jillian Aversa and zircon's Legend of Zelda arrangement, Cave Story, and my own Donkey Kong Country arrangement. Super pumped to hear all of them recorded with the live orchestra!
Posted 11/24/2014
Posted 11/24/2014
Sold Out!
Josephine Sanges Live at Metropolitan Room
New York, NY
November 16th, 2014
Josephine Sanges' live show at the Metropolitan Room this Sunday is sold out! Josephine is through the roof with excitement, and so am I! If you missed out on tickets this time, please consider calling the Metropolitan Room reservation line anyway--they do sometimes get cancellations, so you might get lucky ;-) Thank you to everyone who is coming out to the show, it's going to be a great time!
Posted 11/14/2014
Posted 11/14/2014
Upcoming Show
Josephine Sanges Live at Metropolitan Room
New York, NY
November 16th, 2014
Super pumped to perform with my good friends, singer Josephine Sanges and pianist John Cook! Josephine and John are releasing their jazz album Color Me Blue in November, and they're kicking off the release with a live show at the Metropolitan Room in NYC. I'm very honored to be performing flute on a few numbers, but the real star of the show is that lady in the photo! ;-) $20 cover and two drink minimum to hear some creative renditions and mash-ups of great jazz standards, don't miss it!
Posted 11/5/2014
Posted 11/5/2014
Carousel
First Ever VideoSong!
October 22nd, 2014
I just uploaded my first ever VideoSong! I've been wanting to do something like this forever, I'm really happy with how it turned out. Melanie Martinez's song "Carousel" from the American Horror Story - Freak Show trailer has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it, and I thought it would be fun to make it my first video project. The rules of VideoSongs are:
1) No lip-syncing/play-syncing
2) You must "see" every sound (no hidden sounds).
I added another challenge: no sequencing/sampling, everything is live-performed. Big thanks to Davey Patterson for mixing this track/letting me hog the studio at night, Melanie Martinez for a great song, and the musical duo Pomplamoose for inspiring me to try this artform. Enjoy! :-D
Posted 10/22/2014
1) No lip-syncing/play-syncing
2) You must "see" every sound (no hidden sounds).
I added another challenge: no sequencing/sampling, everything is live-performed. Big thanks to Davey Patterson for mixing this track/letting me hog the studio at night, Melanie Martinez for a great song, and the musical duo Pomplamoose for inspiring me to try this artform. Enjoy! :-D
Posted 10/22/2014
Video Games Live: Level 4
New Album Kickstarter Officially Launched
October 20th, 2014
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Video Games Live is back at it again with a new Kickstarter for their fourth album! I'm very excited about the work I'll be contributing to the album this year, including orchestrating my Donkey Kong Country EWI segment and a Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross piano album as a special reward tier! :) Check out the video for more info about the project and how to donate. Best of luck to the VGL team as they get this party ball rolling!
Posted 10/20/2014
Posted 10/20/2014
Harmony of Heroes
Super Smash Brothers Fan Album Released
October 4th, 2014
Harmony of Heroes is finally here! This Super Smash Brothers fan album is a project of truly global proportions, as over 60 musicians and artists all over the world contributed their talents to make SSB come to life in a whole new way. It was so much fun to be a part of this project, contributing two of my own arrangements as well as performing vocals and instrumentals on several other arrangers' tracks. The final track list is 101 pieces, but here is the list of tracks I contributed to:
Laura Intravia - El Pajaro es La Palabra (arranger, flute)
Laura Intravia - Bach Rider (arranger, EWI, flute)
Theophany - From the Depths (vocals)
Rozen - Challenger Approaching (vocals)
Sebastian Martensson - Kong Kollective (vocals)
Reven - Waiting for Sunrise (flute, piccolo)
Within a few hours of the album going live, the Harmony of Heroes official website received over 100,000 downloads and subsequently crashed--but it is back up and running and ready for download!! :) Have fun and enjoy the music!
Posted 10/4/2014
Laura Intravia - El Pajaro es La Palabra (arranger, flute)
Laura Intravia - Bach Rider (arranger, EWI, flute)
Theophany - From the Depths (vocals)
Rozen - Challenger Approaching (vocals)
Sebastian Martensson - Kong Kollective (vocals)
Reven - Waiting for Sunrise (flute, piccolo)
Within a few hours of the album going live, the Harmony of Heroes official website received over 100,000 downloads and subsequently crashed--but it is back up and running and ready for download!! :) Have fun and enjoy the music!
Posted 10/4/2014
Featured Interview on Top Score with Emily Reese
(Minnesota Public Radio)
September 23rd, 2014
I am so thrilled to share an interview I did with Emily Reese from Top Score! I am such a huge fan of this MPR show, it's dedicated entirely to video game music and it is a huge honor to have gotten to sit down and chat with Emily about my life and career. It's one of the most comprehensive interviews I've ever done, I hope you enjoy! Listen above or check it out on the official MPR website.
Posted 9/23/2014
Posted 9/23/2014
Upcoming Show
Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
Philadelphia, PA
September 19th, 2014
Great ready for another edition of Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions! Looking forward to performing this Friday September 19th at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, PA. I've seen a few shows at the Mann, but this will be my first time ever performing there. Super excited!! Tickets are available at the Mann Center website. Hope to see ya there!
Posted 9/17/2014
Posted 9/17/2014
Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions
World Premiere: Huge Success!
Pika pi!! The world premiere of Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions was a rousing success! The audience was fantastic, maestra Susie Seiter did an incredible job leading the orchestra, and special guest Junichi Masuda appeared on the podium to conduct his beautiful piece "Kiseki"--the list of special moments just goes on and on. The PokeTeam and I had such a blast at both shows this weekend; what a fantastic start to what promises to be a world-wide touring experience, Thank you so much to the entire team for inviting me to sing, and thank you to the amazing audience for coming out to the show!
Posted 8/17/2014
Posted 8/17/2014
Upcoming Show
Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
Washington, D.C.
August 15th-16th, 2014
Pikachuuuu! I'll be getting back on the stage with the all-new official Pokemon concert Symphonic Evolutions! I'm very excited to be working with the same team of arrangers that put together the fabulous Symphony of the Goddesses Tour--they've really outdone themselves turning the music of Pokemon into a symphonic experience for the whole family to enjoy. I'll be performing some real fan favorites from the series, so I expect all of you to join in and sing along! ;-) The Friday Aug. 15th concert is sold out, but there are still tickets available for Saturday. Hope to see you there! Pika pi!
Posted 8/11/2014
Posted 8/11/2014
Where Has Everybody Gone?
Cover Single with Rich Douglas
July 25th, 2014
I'm proud to present my first collaboration with stellar composer Rich Douglas, who has worked on tons of games including Lifeless Planet and the upcoming Shadowgate. Rich put together this cover of the tune "Where Has Everybody Gone" from the James Bond film The Living Daylights. Rich is a huge fan of Bond music, and man does it show in this dark, aggressive, electronic cover. I was so surprised and blown away to hear the final mix, Rich put all sorts of awesome FX polishing on my vocals to make them sound metallic and evil, and who doesn't love sounding like an assassin mastermind?! ;-)
This was so much fun to sing, and Rich is super fun to work with; huge thanks to him for inviting me to sing on his awesome track! I hope everyone enjoys it, we sure enjoyed putting it together!
Posted 7/25/2014
This was so much fun to sing, and Rich is super fun to work with; huge thanks to him for inviting me to sing on his awesome track! I hope everyone enjoys it, we sure enjoyed putting it together!
Posted 7/25/2014
Harmony of Heroes
Second Preview Trailer Released!
June 28th, 2014
Coming this fall, the enormous and enormously AWESOME Harmony of Heroes album has just released their second preview trailer! It's official: this album will featured over 90 tracks by 60 musicians--the largest fan album ever created! I've contributed to several tracks on this album, including Reven's "Waiting for Sunrise" featured in this trailer. I just can't wait to hear the rest of the album and experience all of the different interpretations of these iconic video game music themes.
Over the next few months, Shinesparkers will be putting out samples of tracks, hi-lighting each artist who has worked on this project. Check back here or at the Harmony of Heroes Facebook page to get frequent updates, and check out the HoH official website to download cool artwork made by the talented art team! I KNOW I DID!!
Posted 6/30/2014
Over the next few months, Shinesparkers will be putting out samples of tracks, hi-lighting each artist who has worked on this project. Check back here or at the Harmony of Heroes Facebook page to get frequent updates, and check out the HoH official website to download cool artwork made by the talented art team! I KNOW I DID!!
Posted 6/30/2014
You Were There
Laura Intravia's First Single Released!
May 14th, 2014
So so so excited to be sharing this :) "You Were There" from Ico has been stuck in my head ever since the first time I heard it, and I'm very happy to release it as my first official cover single!! "You Were There” is a calm, meditative song featured at the end of the imaginative action-adventure game Ico; I wanted to interpret it with a more dramatic twist. Huge, huge, huge thank-yous to Jeff Fugelsang for creating the beautiful artwork, Gabriel Vizcarra for his awesome violin/viola performance, and Loudr for hosting it on their site!
Download link is here, hope everyone enjoys!!
Posted 5/14/2014
Download link is here, hope everyone enjoys!!
Posted 5/14/2014
Transfiguration
Journey Video Game Piano Album Released
May 1st, 2014
The Journey piano album “Transfiguration” is now available via Bandcamp and iTunes! This album is a performance of the piano book published by Alfred Music in 2013; the performance features the fantastic pianist Robert Thies, with a Laura cameo on the last song!
This was possibly the most challenging and rewarding project I've ever worked on—a huge thank you to Austin Wintory for inviting me to arrange the piano reductions! It is a tremendous gift to be given the chance to interpret such beautiful music, both on paper and in performance, and it simply would not have been possible without Austin supporting me every step of the way as I tried to tackle this deeply involved, incredibly detailed music for the piano. And of course a huge thank you to Robert, for bringing it to life with such passion and grace! The amount of color he pulls from the instrument is just amazing. Arranging for piano is only half of the process, it takes a true artist to breathe life into it and make it something special :) Lastly, a thank you to my good friend Robin Lai at John Marshall Media, who has recorded me several times for video game projects, and continues to do be one of my favorite people to work with!
What an honor to work on this project with such super talented musicians...I hope everyone enjoys the album!
Posted 5/1/2014
This was possibly the most challenging and rewarding project I've ever worked on—a huge thank you to Austin Wintory for inviting me to arrange the piano reductions! It is a tremendous gift to be given the chance to interpret such beautiful music, both on paper and in performance, and it simply would not have been possible without Austin supporting me every step of the way as I tried to tackle this deeply involved, incredibly detailed music for the piano. And of course a huge thank you to Robert, for bringing it to life with such passion and grace! The amount of color he pulls from the instrument is just amazing. Arranging for piano is only half of the process, it takes a true artist to breathe life into it and make it something special :) Lastly, a thank you to my good friend Robin Lai at John Marshall Media, who has recorded me several times for video game projects, and continues to do be one of my favorite people to work with!
What an honor to work on this project with such super talented musicians...I hope everyone enjoys the album!
Posted 5/1/2014
Video Games Live: Level 3
Album Released
February 18th, 2014
It's here! Video Games Live recently released their third album, featuring brand new tracks from a variety of classic and newer games. This was truly an international effort; the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir did a knock-out job recording all of the pieces under the baton of VGL conductor Emmanuel Fratianni, while myself and other solo musicians recorded our parts remotely from all over the world. It was super fun to record for a few of the tracks, including Chrono Cross "Scars of Time" and the Tetris Opera, and to have my own Zelda 25th Anniversary Overture featured on the album as well. I had originally arranged and orchestrated it for VGL in 2011, it's tremendously exciting to have it appear on this album.
VGL: Level 3 is available at several sites, including Amazon, iTunes and Cdbaby. Hope everyone enjoys all of the pieces on this expansive and multi-faceted album, featuring the talents of so many great musicians!
Published 3/11/2014
VGL: Level 3 is available at several sites, including Amazon, iTunes and Cdbaby. Hope everyone enjoys all of the pieces on this expansive and multi-faceted album, featuring the talents of so many great musicians!
Published 3/11/2014