Omar tells of one man’s struggle to find a new home, but this could be the story of any one of the thousands who journey across the Mediterranean Sea in search of a better future for themselves and their families.
The film depicts the characters traveling through deserts and the seas, becoming victims of abuse, violence, robbery, torture, and illegal detention.
Daniele’s OSTs musically accompanies the film plot with an emotional intensity that is hard to put in words.
The haunting ambient beginning of ‘The Village’ creates a perfect canvas for the notes of a dreamy harp and lush strings. ‘Better Future’ is the second track within the compilation that is musically both melancholic and hopeful, together painting a remarkable human story. ‘The Sea’ as a piece of music echoes the rises, falls, calm and violent uncertainty of the sea.
Omar
By Daniele Carmosino
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Water Drops
“Water Drops” is among Carmosino’s more percussive compositions,
perhaps the drops of rain in a steady downpour, accompanied by thrilling staccato moments amongst the strings. Brief like a summer’s rain shower but an exciting moment nonetheless.
Water Drops
Track list:
1. Water Drops
By Daniele Carmosino
Released: 2022
Record Label: Danca
Publisher: Danca/Sentric Music
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Simple Ways
Carmosino and Aanderud join together in “Simple Ways”
creating a musical mood evocative of nostalgia, optimism, or perhaps something just a little bit different to each listener.
Simple Ways
Track list:
1. Simple Ways
By Daniele Carmosino
Released: 2021
Record Label: Danca
Publisher: Danca/Sentric Music
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Ticking at the tempo of time, “Clockwise” is written around the anticipation of the moment.
Carmosino and Aanderud have created a veritable dance based on the ticking seconds of a timepiece–a dance track of sorts with a bit of the frantic nature we all feel in our day to day lives.
Clockwise
Track list:
1. Clockwise
By Daniele Carmosino
Released: 2021
Record Label: Danca
Publisher: Danca/Sentric Music
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Perfection is a 2021 cinematic album from Daniele Carmosino and Mark Aanderud comprising three tracks plus a piano-only rendition of the title track.
“Perfection” is anticipatory in nature, its brass and piano arrangements hinting toward an excitement yet to come. “Winter Morning” conveys more of a momentous swell amidst a landscape of solace and solitude, concluding with a feeling of arrival. “Moving Skies” could be just that–the progression of clouds, the sun, and finally the moon and stars passing overhead; and all the thoughts that come with the experience: moments of joy, bits of reflection, meditation.
Perfection
Track list:
1. Perfection
2. Winter Morning
3. Moving Skies
4. Perfection – Solo Piano Version
By Daniele Carmosino
Released: 2021
Record Label: Danca
Publisher: Danca/Sentric Music
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Tod’s menswear collection 2021/2022 featured Daniele Carmosino’s original scoring to visually amplify the spirit of the collection.
Tod’s collection is revealed through a film titled SevenT, where the main character (Lorenzo Zurzolo) reviews the script of his next film. “Seven” like the days of the week and “T” for Tod, but also for time. This is a film portraying the making of an Italian gentleman–how he takes shape, cosmopolitan in his absolute freedom..
Daniele’s otherworldly soundtrack in Tod’s -SevenT underscores a spark of panache and class in the actor and enlivens the aesthetics of the film. Watch the film below:
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Music for Baradar (Release)
“Baradar” is the Persian word for brother.
In this soundtrack for the award-winning film of the same name, Carmosino incorporates organic percussive handclaps with heartfelt string arrangements and piano that follow two brothers on their harrowing journey toward hope for a better life.
Baradar
Track list:
1. Hope
2. Big Brother, Pt. 1
3. Before Dawn
4. Big Brother, Pt. 2
By Daniele Carmosino
Released: 2019
Record Label: Danca
Publisher: Danca/Sentric Music
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“The Village,” “The Sea,” and “Better Future” comprise the soundtrack recordings written for the film Omar.
As the film conveys its ‘thousands of true stories,’ so does its accompanying music. Carmosino brings the listener through sombre and foreboding moments, tension, creating a sense of fear of the unknown as it unfolds throughout the moving images. “Better Future” provides a sense of completion, yet not particularly a complete resolution.
Omar
Track list:
1. The Village
2. Better Future
3. The Sea
By Daniele Carmosino
Released: 2021
Record Label: Danca
Publisher: Danca/Sentric Music
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“Food For Thought” is the 5-song soundtrack for a short film of the same name, including two alternate versions of the final track, “Sprinkling Sugar.”
Opening with “In The Gloom (Interlude)” we are at once met with an ominous orchestral premonition, brough through to fruition in “The Diner.” Something is amiss, awry, dark and dangerous. “You Annoy Me” arrives in two parts–there is horror on the horizon, the rising of a foreboding energy that reaches its definitive end by the final chord of ‘Part Two.’ At this moment we’re met with the gorgeous vocal performance of Brigitte Emaga in the sweet and sultry 1950s era swing ballad “Sprinkling Sugar.” Simply divine!
Food For Thought
Track list:
1. In the Gloom
2. The Diner
3. You Annoy Me
4. You Annoy Me (Part Two)
5. Sprinkling Sugar
6. Sprinkling Sugar – Instrumental
7. Sprinkling Sugar – Unplugged
By Daniele Carmosino
Released: 2016
Record Label: Danca
Publisher: Danca/Sentric Music
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