MUSIC

More music and complete scores can be heard on:

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AWARDS

BRitish Independent Film Awards

Jack won Best Music at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards for his work on Wild Rose as score composer, musical director and music producer.

Royal Television Society

Jack was nominated for Best Score at the 2012 Royal Television Society Craft Awards for Holy Flying Circus.

Guild of Music Supervisors

Jack was nominated alongside music supervisor Karen Elliott at the 10th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in L.A. in Feb 2020 for his work on Wild Rose.

PRESENTING A HOMMAGE TO THE FILM MUSIC OF THE 1930’s AND 40’s - THE FARCES, THE NOIRE, THE ROMANCE (AND THE COCKTAILS) - AND ALL THE WONDERFUL INVENTION AND MAGIC OF THE GREAT FILM COMPOSERS OF THE TIME, WITH MY OWN BOOZY TWIST.

I COMPLETED THIS MUSIC DURING LOCKDOWN WHEN, LIKE FOR MANY MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS, THE WORLD SEEMED TO FALL SILENT. I SPENT MANY MONTHS BEING UNPRODUCTIVE AND FEELING UNINSPIRED, BUT TOWARDS THE END OF 2020 I FOUND MYSELF WANTING TO BE IN MY STUDIO AGAIN, DRIVEN PARTLY BY USING ALL THE ENFORCED FREE TIME TO WATCH AS MANY FILMS AS POSSIBLE - ALL THE GREATS FROM EVERY ERA.

I HOPE IT WILL MAKE YOU SMILE!

LISTEN HERE

Mousie

Short film written and directed by David Bartlett, tipped for Oscar 2022 shortlist - Best Live Action Short Film

Mousiefilm.com

Berlin 1936. Hitler will soon host the Olympics, and the streets are being “cleansed” of Jews and Romani “Gypsies”. A seven-year-old Roma child hides in a decaying old Weimar Club, concealed by dancer Katharina who plans to escape Nazism and take Hélène to America – where, she says, everyone is welcome, no matter the colour of their skin. But Hélène won’t rest sneaking about the club and the little mouse sees everything including the arrival of awkward SS Hauptführer Otto who recently conscripted into the army.

“Charming, timely and thought-provoking…”

JONATHAN ROSS

“Writer Director David Bartlett has crafted a small gem that illuminates the horrors of oppression and a transcendentally artful response to it through these shining, multifaceted performances, pristine production values and meticulous direction.

A potent distillation of whimsy and realism, hauntingly relevant now”

JOYCE KULHAWIK, WBZ-TV/ CBS/ Joyceschoices.com

“A very strong story, stylishly-shot, with a lovely performance from the young lead. Stylish, moving and profoundly topical”

MICHAEL DOHERTY, RTÉ Guide

“Very effective and subtle polemic. Fantastic performance from the girl throughout, and the whole thing is incredibly compelling”

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, novelist and screenwriter

"A beautifully atmospheric film, powerful and relevant"

TOM HARPER, director of The Aeronauts, Wild Rose, War and Peace

Wild Rose

Soundtrack album available now on 12-track vinyl and CD, and 21-track digital.

Album: AMAZON iTUNES Spotify

1. Country Girl (4:48)
2. Outlaw State of Mind (3:16)
3. Born to Run (3:14)
4. Peace in This House (4:41)
5. I’m Moving On (2:16)
6. Crying Over (5:57)
7. Angel from Montgomery (4:05)
8. Cigarette Row (Five O Clock Freedom) (3:02)
9. Alright to Be All Wrong (The Dreamer’s Song) (3:04)
10. When I Reach the Place I’m Going (3:21)
11. Glasgow (No Place Like Home) (4:13)
12. Goin’ Back to Harlan (4:29)
13. Covered in Regret (Blue, Black & Red) (4:12)
14. Robbing the Bank of Life (Stealing the Night) (2:21)
15. That’s the View from Here (Famous Folk Are Weird) (5:08)
16. Boulder to Birmingham (4:38)
17. Euston Hustle – The Bluegrass Smugglers (1:16)
18. The Red Kitchen – The Bluegrass Smugglers (0:56)
19. The Beach – The Bluegrass Smugglers (2:21)
20. Le Petit Chat Gris – Hillary Klug (1:20)
21. Glasgow (No Place Like Home) [Live at Old Fruit Market, Glasgow] (4:13)

Album produced by Jack Arnold. All tracks produced by Jack Arnold except “Goin’ Back To Harlan” and “Le Petit Chat Gris” produced in Nashville by Ray Kennedy.

Tracks mixed by Rupert Christie (1-11, 13-15, 18, 19, 21); Ray Kennedy (12, 16) and Stuart Hamilton (17)

Featuring the amazing talents of Neill MacColl & Simon Johnson - guitars; Stuart Nisbet - guitars, dobro, pedal steel guitar; Aly Bain & Laura Carrivick - fiddles; Phil Cunningham - accordion; Ben Nicholls - bass; Chris Vatalaro - drums; Ben Edwards - harmonica; Andy May - keys.

Nashville Band (tracks 12, 16) - Neill MacColl - acoustic guitar; Kenny Vaughan - electric guitar; Lynn Williams - drums; Steve Mackey - bass; Russ Pahl - pedal steel guitar; Matt Combs - fiddle.

Biography

Jack Arnold is BIFA-winning and RTS-nominated composer and producer working in feature film, television drama and documentary on a wide range of award-winning work.

Recent work includes Lewis Capaldi - How I’m Feeling Now for Netflix, the critically acclaimed feature film, and BAFTA Scotland 2019’s Best Picture Wild Rose, directed by Tom Harper, and starring Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters, for which he won the 2019 BIFA for Best Music, and the featured song Glasgow (No Place Like Home), which Jack produced, was shortlisted for Best Song at the 2020 Academy Awards, and won several other major industry awards; The Level, a thriller series for ITV1; and comedy drama series Loaded for C4/AMC. Another career highlight was Holy Flying Circus, a BAFTA-nominated comedy film written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris about the events surrounding the 1979 release of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian", for which he received an RTS Award nomination for Best Score in 2012.

Jack writes in many styles, his music variously described as beautiful, magical, muscular, sensitive, visceral and terrifying. He prefers to think of scoring as filmmaking, rather than composing.  The picture leads, and the composer’s job is to follow the clues and find the right sound, tone and style so that the score feels like a very keyed-in and integral part of the production.

His collaboration with Tom Harper is a long one, beginning with several short films, and then Tom’s debut feature, critically acclaimed The Scouting Book for Boys in 2009, written by Jack Thorne;  2014's War Book followed that, also penned by Thorne, a track composed for 2015's The Woman In Black: Angel of Death; additional music for the BBC’s 2016 adaptation of War and Peace; and most recently on-set music composition and direction for 2019’s The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones.

Other work includes Niall MacCormick’s debut feature film Albatross, starring Felicity Jones and Jessica Brown Findlay; legal drama series Striking Out for RTÉ; and The Beckoning Silence for C4/Discovery.

See Jack’s IMDB page here