In this issue: New Service: Topline Composition

Dear Friends,

You are receiving the yearly news from Sandro Friedrich at www.Powerflute.ch, studio musician for over 200 ethnic wind instruments. Like every spring I'm happy to be able to inform you about the latest developments in my work. I would be glad to hear from you again, too!

Looking back: Here are few selected projects from a total of 65 in 2015:

Shigeru Umebayashi: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny", Netflix 2016 Mychael Danna / Jeff Danna: "Tyrant" (TV series; 7 episodes) US TV 2015 Jeff Danna:" Continuum", ep 404, "Zero Hour" US TV 2015 Jaro Messerschmidt / Nik Reich: "Alarm für Cobra 11; Blutgeld" RTL TV 2015 Duncan Blickenstaff: "The True Cost" Cinema 2015 M Ghibran: "Uttama Villain" (Bollywood film) Cinema 2015 Alexius Tschallener / Rasmus Borowski: "Teacup Travels", TV series UK, 13 episodes, BBC TV 2015 Santiano: CD "Von Liebe, Tod und Freiheit", Elektrola 2015 Beyond the Black: CD "Songs of Love and Death" Universal 2015 Oonagh: CD "Aeria", Elektrola 2015 Konstantin Wecker: CD "Ohne Warum", Sturm und Klang 2015

Click here for my complete reference list.

New instruments 2015 (already listed, but new keys):

Turkish Bulgarian Kaval Turkish Occorso (Bamboo recorder type flutes) .

See & hear all instruments here. At the moment my page contains over 175 different sound samples and videos which offer an easy way to select the instruments which you might want to include in your productions.

In this issue I would like to introduce a new service of mine: Topline composition for ethnic wind instruments. This applies specifically to the wind instruments I record for the project in question.

For details and Testimonials: Click here to see the Topline Composition Fact Sheet. Click here to hear some topline composition examples.

Your project may benefit from this kind of collaboration if: • melodies should be as close as possible to the traditional styles of the chosen instruments. • melodies should be as fitting as possible in range, key and playability for the chosen instruments. Many instruments are limited by specific ethnic scales and fingering techniques, and a melody which is adapted to these parameters makes the music sound much more genuine. This is also very important if your goals include a live performance. • you would like to receive fresh suggestions for melody lines inspired by your backing track.

As before, you can also check out my most recent references on IMdB. You may also want to join me on Facebook or on Twitter.

Again a big thank you to all the people who worked with me this past year! I'm looking forward to new projects with you!

Sandro

POWERFLUTE Sandro Friedrich Im Bueeli 6 8864 Reichenburg / Switzerland Tel. +41 55 444 30 43 [email protected] www.powerflute.ch This newsletter is sent about once a year.