Yes, the cover is excellently chosen and perfectly complements your magnificent film score! The brass section creates a thrilling atmosphere, just as you'd expect from a thriller! For me, it's a masterpiece of film music! Highly Oscar-worthy! 💯💯💯💯💯💪💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍👍🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆👌👌👌👌👌👑👑👑👑👑💯💯💯💯💯

Best regards, Sylvio 😎

uuups, very special ... another day in pardise ... 📞☎️🍺🍻 ... 💀💀...👻👽

Day of Suspense — Review

Right from the opening seconds, a tense, stalking rhythm jumps out at us. The palette is all harsh edges and uneasy colours — synth tones with grit in them, quirky little phrases that hint at skulduggery just out of sight. It feels like we’ve stepped into a back‑alley narrative already in motion.

The tension builds steadily toward a kind of denouement — an accusation, perhaps — followed by a brief moment of resignation that trails off as the piece ends. The synths treat us to strange harmonies, metallic growls, and those little dissonant gestures that keep the listener slightly off balance.

All told, it’s a satisfying romp through the seedier neighbourhoods of the imagination, where nothing is quite clean and every shadow has a story.

on pense à l'univers du "troisième homme" et aux grands films noirs classiques!!!

Hi Mark,
that's a great film score.

Yes, you could imagine it being like that back then.

It's a really dark atmosphere. Dark alleys and figures in hats. You have to watch where you're going.
Well done.💯👍👌

Day of Suspense — Review

Right from the opening seconds, a tense, stalking rhythm jumps out at us. The palette is all harsh edges and uneasy colours — synth tones with grit in them, quirky little phrases that hint at skulduggery just out of sight. It feels like we’ve stepped into a back‑alley narrative already in motion.

The tension builds steadily toward a kind of denouement — an accusation, perhaps — followed by a brief moment of resignation that trails off as the piece ends. The synths treat us to strange harmonies, metallic growls, and those little dissonant gestures that keep the listener slightly off balance.

All told, it’s a satisfying romp through the seedier neighbourhoods of the imagination, where nothing is quite clean and every shadow has a story.

A well thought review of 'Day of Suspense', thank you Philip! I was just a very young boy in the early 60s often watching those then old movies on our black and white TV. Along with 'Spanky and Our Gang Little Rascals', 'Twilight Zone', Westerns, etc. I would watch those detective stories from movies of the 30s and 40s. The two big world wars that my family had lived through had left the world in an aftermath of the dark and social shadows of those times. Yet I grew up in an environment of looking forward to a positive future of 'the 'space age', and a world to be discovered. The dark noir movies of the 40s did bring out the dark shadows of life yet they tended to show in the end that crimes could be solved and perhaps there is justice. The music was a kind of 'jazz' that goes very well with the stories and the moods and experiences that were so well expressed in those old black and white movies.

I had lots of fun bringing the 40s noir theme out with my own studio resources and to explore that 'jazzy' kind of music. And thinking about the music artists of those times and how they created the music that played an important role of expressing the stories in those movies. Perhaps watching those old movies and exploring the music can give us some insight into our present times.

Best Wishes to you ...

Mark ;)

on pense à l'univers du "troisième homme" et aux grands films noirs classiques!!!

Hello Henri,

I see you've grasped the theme. Musical expression is precious to us today, just as it was to those who lived through the 1940s. Ah yes, "The Third Man," with Orson Welles (an exceptional filmmaker and actor of that era!). The story of a man indifferent to the well-being of others who, ultimately, finds justice, reflecting his life in that "dark world." Trapped in the sewers. We are not mere insignificant "dots" (as he thought), but we can all be important to one another.

Je vois que vous avez saisi le thème. L'expression musicale nous est précieuse aujourd'hui, tout comme elle l'était pour ceux qui ont vécu les années 1940. Ah oui, « Le Troisième Homme », avec Orson Welles (un cinéaste et acteur exceptionnel de cette époque !). L'histoire d'un homme indifférent au bien-être d'autrui qui, finalement, obtient justice, à l'image de sa vie dans ce « monde obscur ». Piégé dans les égouts. Nous ne sommes pas de simples « points » insignifiants (comme il le pensait), mais nous pouvons tous être importants les uns pour les autres.

Bien cordialement !

Mark ;)