Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely (born March 28, 1959) is an American composer, arranger, musician, and songwriter. He is a composer of film and television music.
Biography
Joel McNeely was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Both of his parents were involved in music and theater, and as a child he played the piano, saxophone, bass, and flute. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, studied jazz at the University of Miami, and earned a master's degree as a composition major at the Eastman School of Music.
Lucasfilm chose McNeely to compose the soundtrack to the 1996 Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire. This was an experimental project where he conveyed general moods and themes instead of writing music to flow for specific scenes.
He is also notable for conducting a series of re-recordings of Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, John Barry and others' scores under the label of Varèse Sarabande, notably Vertigo, Psycho and Citizen Kane, and selected scores from the Twilight Zone television series, among others. He also composed the score for The Avengers and the theme and music for FOX's Dark Angel. Additionally, he scored the movies Terminal Velocity, Iron Will (which was used in the teaser trailers of Toy Story), Flipper, Gold Diggers, Samantha, Virus, and I Know Who Killed Me (2007). He also scored a multitude of Disney animated films (Mulan II, Peter Pan: Return to Neverland (2002), Tinker Bell and many others).
Podcasts:
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by Children Of Gaia
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by Melissa Etheridge
The Prison
by: Children Of GaiaWe've been brought up in an omnipresent prison
Day after day it grows, it lures us, it seduces, it
comforts us
Nevertheless we keep on going blindly
Believing that things came to be exactly as it told us
(tells us)
Our mother, the same one who taught us what's right or
wrong.
This prison called culture
Is the burden of our so called modern civilization
Our mother, the same one who taught us what's right or
wrong
The same one who presented us its myths and rites
The very same who brings us lethargy until we awake
The culture of maximum damage that purged the
unfaithful
The worthless and obtuse ones
That annihilated tribes and races that were "terribly
subalterns"
The one that deprived us from happenings and facts
Genocides that were intelligently hidden by the
official history
It's hard to get free from its bars, its
entanglements
When it whispers its truths since birth
Now is the time to awake
To go beyond our culture
To go beyond this world
To go beyond civilization
And to live by our own way
There's not only one way of thinking
There's not only one way of acting