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Simon Kölle is a Swedish composer for CDs, Films, TV and Multimedia. Simon is a multi-talented and critically-acclaimed musician and has been released on several labels all over the world since 2000. Simon is looking to hit his stride in scoring many films and to always push the envelope in whatever genre he is composing for.
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LATEST NEWS Composed a pilot for the upcoming feature film Drakar och Demoner
The famous Swedish RPG "Drakar och Demoner" becomes a serious and dark film. The buzz surrounding this project is huge and already has the media and the fans of the game written about it. To kick the project off an ambitious pilot (a prequel) was shot. Simon composed the music for the pilot called "Giltes Bane" and the music range from organic Nordic influenced music to dark and beautiful cues. One cue was inspired by the famous masked ball in "Eyes Wide Shut" but other than that it's hard to resemble the score to much else. Simon was in some way inspired by Werner Herzog's film "Nosferatu" and more. "Giltes Bane" is about a hunter in the dark and cursed forest called Vildhjarta and the main actor is Jerker Fahlström which is known from films such as "Arn - Riket Vid Vägens Slut", The "Johan Falk" movies/series and "Farsan". Aftonbladet, one of the most read Swedish newspapers wrote this about the project. Read it here. The Pilot is produced by Stefan Rydehed at Lirmo AB
Composed a TV Series Pilot
Finally Simon has finished the music for the Pilot (see below) which was first called "De Misstänkta" and now is called "Alex". Simon has worked with the score together with Joel Forssell, a promising young composer, and also produced and mixed the music. Simon has worked with the music since late september. Audio samples will come up soon. Mastered the Soundtrack for Chronicle Of The Black Monks
Simon has mastered the original motion picture soundtrack entitled "The Chronicle of the Black Monks" [Svartmunkarnas Krönika]. The score hold a total of eight, orchestral works by the duo Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg, ranging in style from sacral and profane renaissance to suspenseful cues. All cues are true the era in which the film takes place. The film is a Swedish featurette with some rather famous Swedish actors (most known is Per Ragnar). Daniel and Mikael have worked very hard with this soundtrack and you can hear that in this album. You can buy the album here. Working on a TV Series Pilot
Simon is right now composing music for a TV series Pilot with the working title "De Misstänkta" (which will not be the title). The Pilot star names such as Dragomir Mrsic from "Snabba Cash" (English title "Easy Money" etc.), Anja Lundqvist ("Tusenbröder" etc.), Rebecca Holst ("Svaleskär"), Fyr Thorwald ("Andra Avenyn" and many more), Erik Bolin ("Res dej inte!" etc.), David Nzinga ("Familjen Babajou"), Ulric von Der Esch ("Kommisarie Winter" etc.), Lina Perned ("Ha ett underbart liv" etc.) and Ardalan Esmailli. Simon will produce the music. The score is Simon writing togheter with Joel Forssell.
The Pilot is produced by
Mikael Cross Film producerar with the producer Mikael Eriksson and the producer Tobias Nordquist from Bluegrass Productions.
___________ Produced the swedish band Tengil
Tengil is a band with a close connection to Cultus Ferox, Corvus Corax and Wolgemut. Simon has produced a demo album for Tengil which could become the next Corvus Corax for sure. The music is folk rock with two bagpipes, two electric guitars, bass, drums, mandolin and more. A very ambitious and big project. ___________ Mixing and mastering
IN SCISSORS - Mnemosyne & The Structure Of Time
Simon mixed and mastered an album called "Mnemosyne & The Structure Of Time" made by Vincent Andelmoth project "In Scissors". Vincent is living and working in Greece and the style of the album has been called "Cinematic Ambient". This album is the third one composed by Vincent and "Mnemosyne" is the name of the the ancient Hellenic Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words. At times the album sounds like dark ambient and other times more like Dead Can Dance. ___________ Composing music for Dominick Cruz Video Blog
Simon is working close with A Small Village Productions which create artistic video productions. This time the director Jaser Davari travelled to the US to make a video blog about Dominick Cruz, a UFC champion, who's about to defend his title. Simon has made the theme song, sound design and most probably will more of his music end up in the series. Take a look at the first episode above where you can here Simon's theme song both in the begining and the end. Theme Song for Akta Huvudet
The Swedish organization Akta Huvudet works diligently with anti violence throughout the country.They problematize violence from different point of views. Both the victims, perpetrators and Witness. The organization is touring Sweden showing the film Res dej inte! (Stay Down) but also doing seminars, studies, collaborating closly with scientist's. With other words a very good cause and great work on many different levels. This summer the film will be shown on several festivals and the bigest movie theatre in Sweden. Akta Huvudet commissioned Simon to make the Theme song of the whole project. The task was not easy as Akta Huvudet wanted a song that would have hints of happiness, darkness, oriental influences, influences from the film music Simon composed for Res dej inte! (Stay Down) and much more. The finished song is made up in two rather different parts interwoven close to end. It's really two songs and could work as such with ease. The Akta Huvudet theme song is called "Rise to the Ocassion". You will be able to listen to it soon. Leaving MMAnytt.se, Tengil, writing, composing After two years of hard work with MMAnytt.se it's time to move on. The website is still a friend of Simon but writing and working with MMA will be done on another place, from now on, called kimura.se. Simon was one of driving forces to make MMAnytt.se become the most visited website about Mixed Martial Arts in all of Scandinavia with more than 500.000 unique visitors every month. Right now Simon is very busy working with his book and his main profession: composing. Recently, also, Simon begun helping a swedish folk rock oriented music group called Tengil. Tengil have deep ties with Cultus Ferox, Corvus Corax and Wolgemut and Simon is working as Tengil's manager and also mixing and mastering the music. Other than that Simon is working dilligently with his book and of course, as mentioned before, with composing. A couple of film project are lining up but nothing is set in stone yet other than that Simon will work with the director Richard Jarnhed. More info will be revealed soon.
___________ Writing the first swedish book about MMA Simon is happy to announce that he signed recently with BTJ Förlag whom will publish his book about Mixed Martial Arts and distribute it in the mainstream. It's still in the making and will be released sometime 2012.
___________ Sakae premiers on friday The Featurertte Sakae is filled with both action and drama. Sakae is directed by Benjam Orre and with the music composed by Simon's friend Hans Lundgren. Simon mixed the music of this samurai inspired movie. The story: In ancient Japan a battle of power takes place. Who will decide the future of the people? ___________ Aardia released This music of Aardia is the work of three swedish film composers Patric Söderlund, Daniel Johansson and Gustaf Grefberg. Simon mixed and mastered thier album Conquest of the Ancient Halls that had it's release yesterday. Here's a medley of all songs on the album:
____________ Greek Short film and a busy autumn  From a scene in "Destin" Simon has composed, mastered and mixed a lot during the course of the autumn. The debuting, epic, dark fantasy inspired, cinematic music group called Aardia worked closely with Simon in several month's to create a stunning album, they before working with Simon had worked on for almost two years, which will be released on Waerloga Records early 2011. Simon has also kept working with intro's, cues to TV-shows and mastering albums on demand throughout the autumn. Today Simon finished a remake of a soundtrack (made by Vincent Andelmoth) to a short art film made by the famous greek multimedia artist namned John Santerineross. The Short film is called Destin and the soundtrack is more or less dark ambient horror music with hints of mysticism and psychological drama. The score, made by Simon, will be featured in a compilation released 2011. See the short film Destin, here.
_____________ Simon will score a swedish roadmovie Not much could be said about this project right now but Simon will work as the composer and musical supervisor on Richard Jarnhed's upcomming feature film which is excpected to be released 2012. ____________ Book released featuring Simon
Simon is included in the Swedish book "Vagen till sangerna samtal om kreativitet och latskrivande" (released sept. 2010).
The book is a series of interviews, one chapter each, made by swedish journalist Stefan Warnqvist and include bands such as: Backyard Babies, Miss Li, Timo Raisanen, Urban Tribe and more (a total of 22). Mainly Singer-songwriter's from Sweden. The book is in Swedish and is properly distributed here.
Read more about it (in swedish) here. Simon foremost interviewed about his band Za Frumi but touches subjects such as composing for films and more.
TV Show Intros
Simon make intros and other music to the webiste MMANYTT (mmanews), a website Simon also own together with some friends. The website got more than 400.000 unique readers every month. Simon is also hosting TV-shows viewed on the website.
MMAnytt collaborates with among others TV4sport and Canal+sport and sponsor fighters such as Alexander Gustaffson who is fighting in the UFC.
Cues and remixes for remake
Simon has made cues, remixes and more for the remake of the 2002 film
Pangaea (Pontus Belfrage & Andreas Troedssson). A epic action fantasy short that will be released 2011. Simon earn a prestigious Swedish grant
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee has awarded Simon a grant for his work as a composer. The working party within the committee was comprised by nine members, all esteemed professionals. Considering Simon's background in the underground scene, this award sends a clear message: the music of Simon Kolle is indeed to be taken seriously. _____________ Res dej inte! on national Swedish TVWEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010
The Featurette Res dej inte! (Stay down) could be viewed at SVT1 the 13th of June (2010) at 23:15 (swedish time), afterwards a debate will follow about youth violence and the project. Simon's soundtrack for film has earned great reviews so far and if you can't wait for the viewing you can listen to some music samples here. _____________
Simon has finished mastering the swedish duo Lost Kingdom's (Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg) upcomming CD release "Meant for Great Things" a while ago . The music is neo-classical and cinematic and will be released soon on Waerloga Records. Read more about Lost Kingdom here. Simon also signed up recently to master a debut album for the band Aardia which as with Lost Kingdom will be released this first half of 2010. To hire Simon to master an album contact him. _____________ Great reviews for Musterion "The Wondrous Journey Through the Catabombs of Life" The second installment of solo project Musterion has been given really good reviews in the media. Here's a couple of qoutes: "Simon Kölle, having a background in theatre and music, is well placed to further explore the demonic shades of the subconscious through his compositions... 'The Wondrous Journey...' succeeds because it places a fresh nuance on the genre, and is capable of continually challenging as well as engaging the listener within ever encroaching walls of insanity." Michael Cunninghamn @ Judas Kiss and Compulsion "Simon takes his music to new levels of sophistication and refinement without compromising the allure and excitement of the sound. The entertainment factor rides high throughout this gem of a release." 5/5 - Alexander Garrett @ Row Magazine "The music, ancient and esoteric is cinematic and arcane which contains mostly organic and electro acoustic instruments. The compositions are complex and obscure. Fluently the music takes you on this psychedelic trip with care and precision." Remco @ Gothtronic _____________ Nice reception of the Res dej inte! (Stay Down) soundtrack The soundtrack to the film "Res dej inte!" (Stay down) as been given a very good reception by the media. "The score stands up with the best Hollywood has offered the last month's and I sincerely hope Kölle follows the trail blazed by Richard Jarnhed and they embark on a road to the mainstream... Overall, this is an excellent score and if you've loved the music to films like Alien and The Omen you will definitely love this one as well. But you also here hints of the music of John Carpenter and Michael Suby." 5/5 stars - Ivan Racheck @ Chaindlk.com "This is a soundtrack for those who like dark ambient music and uncanny sounds. This is a great soundtrack to a most promising film." Remco @ Gothtronic "Kölle's work is absolutely first class, mixing ethnic elements with modern and ambient, traditional and somewhat (but not so much) classical, which all pays honorable homage to its visual accompaniment. The last thing mentioned is what Simon really has a grip on, namely hitting the right spot at the right time... It's deliberating to hear a soundtrack not sounding Hollywood with string sections and crisp orchestrations. The music is rather dirty and dark in a good suiting way. Another great thing which stands out is a series of elaborate and expressive musical phrases, each conjuring up a different facet to the story." 9/10 - Alexander Garett @ Row Magazine "Strident, tense atmosphere, dreary plains, mixing techniques which create a rhythmic pulse or sweep. More and more you get closer to the coldness of Popol Vuh's Nosferatu soundtrack, the more you do it you touch the goal. Death - or rather the scare of dying." Bil @ A Report on the next clues "Res dej inte! (OST) is a very interesting and far from negligible album" _____________ simonkolle.com version 2.0 simonkolle.com has been upgraded to version 2.0! Enjoy! _____________ Res Dej Inte! at Göteborg International Film Festival Res dej inte! will have it's first public screening this sunday, January 31, at the Göteborg International Film Festival. The film will be screened three times during the festival, on sunday January 31, thursday February 4 and saturday February 6. Res dej inte! will be screened together with Swedish featurette White as blood. Visit Göteborg International Film Festival website for information on bookings in English or in Swedish. _____________ Waerloga Records Mailorder is back online After being hacked back in november, the Waerloga Records Mailorder is finally back in working order and with upgraded safety to avoid it happening again. Feel free to visit the mailorder to purchase Simon's releases, including the official soundtrack for Res dej inte! and releases by Za Frûmi, Musterion, Abnocto and more! Visit the Waerloga Records Mailorder _____________ Res Dej Inte! Trailer A trailer for the featurette Res Dej Inte is finally availiable on YouTube. This chilling story is sure to become a Swedish modern youth classic. Simon's music has a huge part in creating the atmosphere of the film and the consequences violence among youths. Enjoy! _____________ Hem ljuva hem exhibition at Polismuseet 
Simon has made music and the sound editing for two rooms that are a part of the exhibition "Hem, ljuva hem" (Home Sweet Home) which opens on December 3 at Polismuseet (The Police Museum) in Stockholm. The exhibition deals with domestic violence through times. The two rooms which Simon has been a part in creating tell the stories of two real cases involving domestically abused women. The first case brings us back to 1925, and the other one is based in the 21st century. Two women, 80 years a part in time and yet so similar. "Hem, ljuva hem" opens at Polismuseet on December 3, 2009. _____________ Release party for Musterion and Res dej inte! A release party is being planned to celebrate the upcoming releases of the two albums The Woundrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life by Musterion and the soundtrack for Res dej inte!. The event will take place in Stockholm on November 26 and everyone's invited! Come and celebrate these truly great albums and enjoy Simon's music, appearances by Erik Bolin, Richard Jarnhed, Per Holmgren and performance art by Linus Raudsepp. Drinks and releases will be available for purchase. Admittance is free! The event will be helt at Scenen Pipersgatan 4 (Tube: Rådhuset) on Thursday, November 26 6-11 PM. _____________ The gates are now open... Finally! We are proud to present you with the official website of Swedish-based composer Simon Kölle. Here you will find information about Simon and his works. Be sure to check out the music page where you will find a large selection of Simons music, which is guaranteed to give you chills of pleasure. Feel free to contact Simon if you have any questions. Simon is availiable for bookings both inside and outside of Sweden. Stay tuned to this page, more news and updates will be up shortly. _____________ |
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