MP3 Jon Sorensen - Cool Beans: Gods and Gothics

"Your "Frankenstein" trilogy is absolutely breathtaking". (Ken Russell, Film Director, Altered States, Women In Love, Gothic, Crimes of Passion, The Devils)."Amazing. I did not want this music to end". (Ivor Powell, Producer, Blade Runner).

10 MP3 Songs in this album (67:04) !
Related styles: ELECTRONIC: Virtual Orchestra, CLASSICAL: Film Music

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Jon Sorensen was born and raised in the Scottish Highlands. As a teenager he saw the films "STAR WARS" and, more significantly, "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND". He hitch-hiked from Scotland to London and was hired in the visual effects department of the original "ALIEN" where he worked alongside Ridley Scott on the miniatures and "alien FX" whilst living and sleeping in the studio dressing-room famously used by Christopher Lee in the "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" movies made by Hammer Films. "ALIEN" won the Oscar for best visual effects, and Sorensen was finally persuaded to move his sleeping bag out of the studio and he went on to work on other films such as "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK", "SUPERMAN 2", "THE TIME BANDITS", "EXCALIBUR", "OUTLAND", "MOONRAKER", and both "DRAGONSLAYER" and "THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS" for Disney. He also worked alongside the late Jim Henson on the epic middle-earth feature film "THE DARK CRYSTAL". Sorensen had by now set his sleeping bag up on the back lot of Elstree Studios amongst the giant toadstools and alien plant-life constructed for that Henson film. At about this time, he caught sight of two "bio-pics" made by Brit director Ken Russell about the "romantic" poets Wordsworth and Coleridge shot in the English Lake District. So he moved there himself and made two movies as Writer-Producer-Director. These were "A RETURN TO LOVE" (1997) for television and the David Lynch/X-Files/New Age sci-fi feature "ALIEN BLOOD" (2000). The U.S. Distributor's ad-line for the latter was "The Truth Is Out There...Way Out There!" Moving sideways from his camera/visual effects expertise, Sorensen immersed himself in the Sound Design and music supervision for these films which led directly to his becoming a prolific composer of music in his own right. His compositions are filmically linked to the listener, designed to take you on a "cinematic" trip with every new track. Atmospheric, mythical, ambient, techno-tribal and full of "plot twists", they display Sorensen's ongoing passion for music and film and an all-important "sense of wonder". He continues to maintain contacts in the Hollywood and European film communities, writes screenplays, and still develops and makes films when not making music. He is currently preparing his short "fantasy" screenplay "Bid Time Return" for production in 2009.

He has been shooting material worldwide and composing music for a personal "ambient feature film" called "Seeker" since 2006. New Orleans and LA based Voodoo films report, " The material is incredible but he simply refuses to finish it!" Sorensen: "It's an organic thing".

Bits and pieces of Sorensen also appear in some of the above mentioned feature films. His were the "alien hands" who held Yaphet Kotto's head whilst his head was being shattered in Ridley Scott's "Alien", and his was the "giant's foot" coming down on the roof of a shoreline "troll's house" in Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits". He also appears briefly in his own "Alien Blood" as a man-in-black footsoldier being machine-gunned off a wall by the female alien mother at the film's shoot-out climax.

Since late 2006, Sorensen has completed an incredible 14 finished albums of original music. After only two months of featuring his music on the redoubtable "social" networking site MySpace he signed his first non-exclusive record contract in January of 2007. His albums have included "Rendlesham Forest", "This Island Earth", "Alien Soldier", "Rubicon", "2012", "The Quatermass Experiment" "The Banned Tapes" and "Andromeda". In that time, his music has been used in over 70 independent U.S. and European films and in television commercials in France, Italy, Greece, Eastern Europe, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands and the United States.

"You are a true modern artist and it's incredible the amount of music you've been able to turn out". (Scott Benzie, Film Composer, UK).

"Your music will always remain monumental and continue to touch my heart and soul". (Lusia, Florida, US).

"Jon, your music is breathtaking. Have you worked with Steven Spielberg? Does he know all about your talents?" (Roza-Nadine Carter, Artist, UK).

His music continues to be licenced for film, television and multi-media.

He still has his sleeping bag.

"The Core of Dreams", his latest completed album, is the first in his prolific output also to be featured on CD Baby.

ALBUM EXTRAS.

Purchasers of the "Cool Beans" CD can also receive free by e-mail an original piece of graphic/artwork by Jon Sorensen to accompany the album.

Simply e-mail through the "Official/Contact" website linked from this page.