British film composer James Everingham remembers the first thing that he felt uncertain when he felt uncertain about a Q. War chief“Touchstone was always traditional aerial music,” he says. “The way the rhythm, the way we used Vocals, the way the tunes were shaped … It was our initial point and some we returned again and again.”
Apple was called for music with the TV series, co-score with Hans Zimmer, cinematic sweep and cultural immersion. Across the nine episodes, Jason Momoa Kaaa Island travels from politics to individual recrends for the ocean fight. “You have found Jason Momoa as the lead, and it’s not just set in air,” James explains. “You have found politics of the heads, this huge fight, romance – so many elements that need to score in a cinematic manner, because it is eventually entertainment. But Hawaiian Music Culture was to be at the core of everything written by us.”
A part of it was to know when to lead and when to retreat. More War chief Isello is performed in Hawaii, the island’s severely endangered indigenous language, whose rhythm and melody often feels music naturally. “If you are sung in traditional Hawaiian music – ʻLello Hawaii – on dialogue in that language, it can be quite challenging,” James explains. Views by view, the team will decide whether to breathe the dialogue to breathe the dialogue, to score aerial vocals or to keep them atmospheric. This may mean a collision in place of the song sung, lyrical vowel or aerial nose flute.
Still from ‘Head of War’. Photo Credit: Apple TV
The key to this was cooperated with Grammy-Nominated aerial singer Kamaka Eva Kanakol, who wrote the songs that included the events that were reported on the screen. James says, “Instead of only the vowels that you can usually find in a cinematic tone, you can make this real feeling in his voice, and it is naturally tied to what is happening,” James says.
The sounds in his toolkit contained some devices outside the air: Oyo (“Oi Oi” was pronounced), a hollow-neck gourd rotated the overhead to make a ghost whistle; PahuA shark-scin drum; PublisherA small knee-wire drum used in hula; KaakeekekeA bamboo idione with a tonal thood. Particularly absent eukelele. He says, “Ukulal is not from the state of Hawaii. It later came up with anxation. We tried to escape the trops,” they say.
If War chief James’ musical vocabulary was widespread, it also changed her creative process. “I had to make a very conscious effort to keep things loose, when I go to Hawaii, when I meet these incredible artists, there is a place to get into music,” they say. “Some people who know a lot about traditional aerial music, know more than that and take it to the entire other level.”
The brand of openness fits well with Hans Zimmer. The two have worked together on many projects, but James still notes the moments that remind them why the zimmer is, well … Hans Zimmer. He says, “He is very great in understanding the origin of the story, which can put all the attractive things aside and in fact diving in the main subjects and whatever project can be identified,” they say. “For War chiefThese are subjects of identity, related and cultural importance. And Hans is excellent in dialing in it. ,
Zimmer also pushed him to step outside his rest area. “Sometimes when you are co-scoring a project with someone, it is easy to move towards the upcoming scenes,” James says. “I am surprised that there is really value in doing something that does not naturally come … probably gives a more unexpected result to find out that out.”
At their work War chief One of the world’s great equipment comes after a curious overlap in their history. In 2020, the first time with the Royal Albert Hall closed over a century, James led a small team to capture the sound of its 9,999-pipe organ for a virtual instrument library. “It was really a lifetime opportunity,” he says. “For the first time after being opened in the 1800s, it was empty and available.” The microphone was placed in an empty auditorium, a bounted pair in the royal box to catch the wind and as the resonance it was swollen through the space.
Around the same quiet stretch of months, organizer Anna Lapwood was also playing under special access, breathing new life, which was most often heard in the packed galls. Knowing Zimmer’s score can only be a strange poem StarsSo defined by its own Cathedral organ, never found its way for the Royal Albert Hall. “You probably have to keep it down to access it. It is booked every day for a major performance,” they say. And yet here was James, digitizing a sound that Zimmer may have chosen to craft himself one of the most prestigious original scores of the 21st century once, aligned time and fate.
James says that his path for such projects was not born from the same cinematic epiphyne. “Many people have that moment with John Williams,” he says. “For me, it was a classical music that I used to highlight as a child – Bakh, Bethoven, Brahms, Mahler. Rachmaninoff was just playing continuously in the house.” At the age of seventeen, he recorded his first feature-length score at AB Road Studio. Within a few years, he was scoring Amazon Grand prix driver And working with artists like Arora on BBC Frozen planets second,
Now located in Los Angeles, James has created a portfolio spreading television, documentaries and commercial work, such as with sample libraries Woodchester piano And Fractured stringsHis latest feature was on Kama Paul Shreder’s 2024 documentary The blue angelsUnited States Navy’s Flight Displaying Squadron, a Chronicle-Outfit that inspired the famous fighter-pilot swagger top GunIt is a clear turn of fate that Zimmer also helped in the score Top Gun: MavricTony Scott long -awaited sequel awaited for the origin of 1986.
James Everingham | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
F1 Director Joseph Kosinski directed RogueAnd James quoted him as a dream colleague, which is a dream partner for the ability to maintain a high-purpose value with grounded realism. He also named Scott, who directed the original top GunAs a formal effect. “Many directors are influenced by him,” says James, “and perhaps one day the heritage will remain in someone else who finds me to work.”
For now, James stands as the convergence of these many serious threads. War chief It seems that he is necessary about the work he wants to do. “A lot of time, the film music is a puzzle,” he says. “This is a constant discovery of what the music world is for the project … and ideally something that has not really been heard before.”
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Published – August 12, 2025 12:59 pm IST