Having gone from a vibrant college band to a respected indie rock group and successful solo artist, Nyles Lannon's career has seen many peaks across different trajectories. Adding to an already extensive list of projects is that of production music. He's been working alongside Liquid Cinema and APM in the last few years to release music placed in over seventy shows and multiple commercials while playing in a band with his son.
If we plot the story arc of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the entertainment industry, it would be easy to say that the last five years have been its climax. The mainstream T.V. show Fresh Off the Boat cast its sails wide and traveled deep into viewers’ hearts, while music stars like H.E.R., Japanese Breakfast, and Mitski landed on the charts and grabbed pop culture by the horns. And just this year, the film Everything Everywhere All at Once made history and dominated the Academy Awards. So, is this truly the peak of the mountain? For up-and-coming film composers like Brandon Lau, however, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
With a music resume dating to the mid-90s, Kikbak has covered a lot of ground in the music world, from being in a rap group to producing for artists, composing for commercials, and now running his own APM-supported library label, For the Win.
After moving to the US in the 1980s, Tal Bergman eventually found success as a drummer in New York. He played with seminal acts like Chaka Khan and Billy Idol, composing movie soundtracks, and eventually set up Tal Bergman Music, a library label distributed by APM.
David Robidoux is a multi-Emmy-winning composer who works as the Senior Composer and Original Music Director at NFL Films. He's been involved with the league since landing an internship in the early 90s, and his compositions have appeared on everything from the Super Bowl, EA Madden, HBO Hard Knocks, Monday Night Football, All American, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and NCIS. His works have also been used in marketing blockbuster films such Jurassic World: Dominion and the John Wick franchise.
In January, APM released a brand new trailer album from Red Matter simply called Vox. But after listening to it, it's anything but. The massive 140-track album sounds gigantic, cinematic, and epic, which, according to APM's music director Keiko McTingley, is perfect for horror trailers and intriguing dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Meet the "Mann" behind the music.
As the son of keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Yes fame, Adam Wakeman has spent the last 30 years building an artistic career, working as a music director and touring as a keyboard player with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne and Annie Lennox.
Since launching her career in New York with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in the 70s, Carmen Lundy cemented herself as one of today's most longstanding jazz vocalists.
On January 1, 1962, The Beatles, fresh from their grueling residency in Hamburg, traveled to North London with their manager Brian Epstein to secure stardom through a live audition set for the executives at Decca Records. The band played 15 songs for their 'commercial test' and, as history recorded it, was rejected by Decca with one of the most infamous disses in music history: "Guitar groups are on the way out."