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June 2013 – March 2014

3/21/2014

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March 2014
Sony releases the soundtrack to FAT TONY & CO on the 14th of March.
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February 2014

FAT TONY & CO premieres on the Nine Network on Sunday the 23rd of February.

First Watch: Graeme Blundell, The Australian

"ONE could hardly call Nine’s Fat Tony & Co restrained, understated or unassuming. This nine-hour series, overlapping with the original Underbelly, tells the real-life story of Australia’s most successful drug dealer, Tony Mokbel. Like Underbelly, it is a corrosive fable of avarice, hubris and violence tracing the rise and fall of a vicious, lethally charming gangster. Its powerful evocation of the sordid world of drug merchants, armed robbers and murderers, while electric to watch, makes Melbourne seem like the most primitive of Darwinian jungles. As one of the pursuing cops said in last week’s feature length opener, “There are no mates in Tony Mokbel’s world.”

As it was with the first Underbelly — still the most effective storytelling of that chronicle — it is still hard to believe that such clear boundaries between criminality and respectability actually existed, and that the transgressive energies of life at the margins were so segregated from mainstream Melbourne. How did these dumb suburban criminals of such medieval ferocity get away with it for so long? In its urgent way, the series does what the best crime fiction does — describes the limits of democracy, the crisis of the judicial system, and the shadowy borders between those who police us and those in the underworld.

The action in the setup episode last week, written by Peter Gawler, who also produces, was skilfully mounted by director Peter Andrikidis and photographed by his long-time collaborator Joe Pickering. It was gracefully choreographed, vividly edited and the burnished photography full of mean-streets visuals worthy of Scorsese’s Goodfellas, vividly setting the style for the series. Fat Tony & Co is mesmerising, not only for the almost brutish displays of Italian and Greek machismo but also the complexity of its convergent style.

Andrikidis’s aesthetic reminded me of Stefano Sollima’s Romanzo Criminale, (on Foxtel’s Showcase), which aesthetically exploits film noir, prison movies, true crime and melodrama; pays homage to The Sopranos; and imaginatively ses the stylistic tropes of the subgenre of early 1970s “tough guy” Italian crime and action movies known as poliziottesco.

As in Goodfellas and Romanzo Criminale the violence is gross, shocking and animalistic but never arbitrary, simply reflecting the corrosive nihilism that infects these characters.

Burkhard Dallwitz’s musical score, eerily echoing Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti westerns for Sergio Leone, works virtually as a Greek chorus. And Gawler again uses the convention of narrator, which will irritate those critics of the Underbellystyle of storytelling who disdain its use — here it’s Stephen Curry’s young cop Jim Coghlan who is integral to the investigation — suggesting it’s a fallback trick for lesser writers, a device to trot out when other more classically visual narrative devices fail.

The narration may be called the informed voiceover: it offers a first-hand view to the inner workings of Mokbel’s psychology, fleshing out his behaviour. It’s cleverly worked here by Curry, his vocal inflections suggesting conversation rather than a written monologue.

I’m locked into the black humour and thrilling visual style of the show. If Gawler and co can be accused of glamorising such despoiled and sociopathic characters, better this than trying to understand them."
January 2014
RED OBSESSION wins the AACTA award for BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
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October 2014
Receive 2 nominations for the 2013 Screen Music Awards: 
Best Music for a Television Series for UNDERBELLY BADNESS
Best Music for a Documentary for RED OBSESSION

Receive an AACTA nomination for RED OBSESSION (best sound for a documentary)
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September 2013 – February 2014
Compose the score for the new 9 part TV drama series FAT TONY & CO. Recording and mixing the score will be Chris Scallan @ THE SOFT CENTRE in Melbourne. Musicians will include Achilles Yiangoulli on Bouzouki and Tzoura and Dave Herzog on electric and acoustic guitars.

July 2013 – August 2013
Compose and record the new Title Theme for FAT TONY & CO.

July 2013
Sony releases the soundtrack for UNDERBELLY SQUIZZY on JULY 5th.

UNDERBELLY SQUIZZY premiers on the Nine Network on July 28th

June 2013
Sign on to compose the score to the new 9 part TV drama series FAT TONY & CO for Screentime and the Nine Network.

"From Screentime, the producers of the top rating Underbelly franchise, the nine-part drama Fat Tony & Co will uncover the true story of one of Australia’s most notorious criminals, Tony Mokbel.

On March 19, 2006, Mokbel, said to be Australia’s richest gangster, became Australia’s most wanted man. What followed was an intense manhunt that lasted 18 months and dismantled a drug empire.

A miraculous tip-off to the Australian police revealed that Mokbel was living in Athens, Greece under a false name and documents. But how do you find one man in a population of four million? Fat Tony & Co follows Mokbel from his early beginnings in Melbourne’s underworld to his eventual discovery and arrest in a cafe in Athens.

Other original members of the Underbelly cast set to reprise their roles in the new series include Vince Colosimo as Alphonse Gangitano, Gyton Grantley as Carl Williams, Les Hill as Jason Moran, Madeleine West as Danielle McGuire, Simon Westaway as Mick Gatto, Gerard Kennedy as Graham Kinniburgh, and Kevin Harrington as Lewis Moran.

Fat Tony & Co will also feature Shane Jacobson, Stephen Curry, Debra Byrne, Steve Bastoni, Richard Cawthorne, Simone Kessell, Nicholas Bishop and Hollie Andrew.

Screentime’s Executive Chairman, Des Monaghan, and Head of Drama, Greg Haddrick, will be Executive Producers along with Channel Nine’s joint Heads of Drama, Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan, with Peter Gawler and Elisa Argenzio producing the series. Peter Andrikidis, Andrew Prowse and Karl Zwicky will direct the nine episodes, which will be written by Peter Gawler, Adam Todd, Jeff Truman and Michaeley O’Brien."

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February 2006 – October 2006

10/2/2006

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October 2006

Received three nominations in the 2006 APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards:

  • 'THE CATERPILLAR WISH' in the category of Feature Film Score of the Year
  • 'THE CATERPILLAR WISH' in the category of Best Soundtrack Album
  • 'TORINO 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS' in the category of Best Television Theme
The Awards ceremony takes place in Sydney on the 6th of November.

Commenced work on the new Network Seven Sports Theme. First up is the '2006 MELBOURNE CUP THEME'. Recording will take place in Melbourne on the 19th of October at Alan Eaton Studios. This will be followed by the Broadcast Themes for the 2007 Australian Open Tennis Championships and the 2007 AFL Football Season. 
Audio Page will be updated with new tracks from ('THE CATERPILLAR WISH', LOVE IN SAIGON' and other projects) by the end of the month.

September 2006

Signed on to score the documentary 'TWO MUMS AND A DAD' for Singing Nomad Productions. The documentary for SBS television will be produced by Sally Ingleton and directed by Miranda Wills. Composing will commence in December with a final mix scheduled for the end of January 2007.

The Documentary 'WELCOME 2 MY DEAF WORLD' received a nomination for Best Documentary at this years AFI Film and Television Awards.

July/August 2006

Composing songs and instrumentals for an album of original music currently titled 'TERMINAL RESTLESSNESS'

Guitar overdubs are being recorded by David Herzog at Supersonic Studios in Melbourne. Additional vocal and instrumental overdubs will be recorded at various stages until the end of the year.

Signed on to score the animated film 'CHAINSAW' by AFI award winning Animator Dennis Tupicoff. The film is being produced by Melbourne based Jungle Pictures. The film goes into production in September with music pre-production scheduled for November 2006 and the final score to be completed by April 2007.

June 2006

The film 'THE CATERPILLAR WISH' premiers on the 5th of June and opens nationally on June 8th. The Original Soundtrack Album for the Film is being released by Shock Records on the 22 of June. (see 'Discography' for details)

May 2006

Meeting with director Pascal Verdosci and producer Alex Martin in Zurich to discuss collaboration on their new film 'THE INTERROGATION OF HARRY WIND' (Das Verhoer des Harry Wind) based on the novel of the same name by Walter Matthias Diggelmann. The film is currently scheduled to start production in 2007.

February/March 2006

Licensed a composition to Paramount Classics for the world wide Trailer to 'ASK THE DUST' a new film written and directed by Robert Towne, produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner and starring Salma Hayek, Collin Farrel and Donald Sutherland. The Film opens in the U.S. on the 10th of March.

'WELCOME 2 MY DEAF WORLD' had its premiere at the 'Real Life On Film" Documentary Festival in Melbourne and was voted 'Most Popular Documentary'.

Edited and remixed music for two Cinema Trailers for the Film 'THE CATERPILLAR WISH' which will be released nationally by Palace Films on the 15th of June (www.thecaterpillarwish.com).

A Soundtrack Album is in the works and will be released through Shock Records.

'EINE LIEBE IN SAIGON' (Love In Saigon) a 2 Part Mini-Series will have it's premiere screening on German Broadcaster SAT 1 on the 11th and 12th of April in prime-time.
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