James Edward Barker Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
James Edward Barker, a relation of the film composer Benjamin Frankel, began composing for film in his early twenties. As well as being a self-taught musician from a young age, he was classically trained at Newcastle University in the UK. His late teens were spent touring the UK in a highly acclaimed Big Band as lead guitarist and producing a ...
Performed the score for 'The Crew' with a mixture of live strings and singing bowls (which were miked up through distortion and delay pedals). Female vocals were performed by the same vocalist that he used for 'Extraordinary Rendition'.
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Related to film composer Benjamin Frankel.
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Performed the score for Psych: 9 with a 64-piece orchestra in Prague at the CNSO studio. On the score, James played a wide range of instruments including the hammered dulcimer, dilruba, vocals, piano, timpani and glockenspiel. He was also asked to write the haunting melody for the little girl, which he composed out of multiple detuned music boxes.
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Performed all the male vocals for the score for Extraordinary Rendition and also on the climatic end piece with a female vocalist, which he recorded in an abandoned church. He also sought out a six string Thai saw Duang, on which he performed some of the haunting sounds on alongside the dilruba and hammered dulcimer.
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Performed all the score for Crack Willow using multiple vintage analog guitar effects that he collected. The main track was compiled by recording a rare early 1980s pedal, Morley Pik Percussion, which he re-modified and had to be played with a metal plectrum acting as the coil.
$700,000
