New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Composer Lorne Balfe (Salinger, Assassins
Creed III, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and Giants,) returns to the Skylands with the soundtrack for Skylanders: Swap Force. The soundtrack is currently available digitally through all major providers in advance of the release of the Activision game on October 13th.
Said Balfe "Working on Skylanders is like being on a sugar rush for 3 months straight! We are so happy to have been a part of another great game by Activision."
ABOUT SKYLANDERS: SWAP FORCE
Embark on an exciting new adventure with the Skylanders and the SWAP Force. For generations, the SWAP Force protected the volcano that replenishes Skylands' magic. That is until an epic battle caught them in an eruption that blasted them apart, sent them to Earth and gave them the ability to swap powers. Only you can mix and match their tops and bottoms, put them on the new Portal of Power™ and save Skylands.
ABOUT LORNE BALFE
Lorne Balfe is a Grammy award winning, Emmy and BAFTA nominated film composer from Inverness, Scotland. Lorne is known for composing the scores to the Dreamworks' animation Megamind, and Ubisoft's Assassin's
Creed III.
In addition to being recognized for producing two of Zimmer's Oscar-nominated scores, Sherlock Holmes and Inception, Lorne has also received significant recognition for his work in the United Kingdom. In 2009, Lorne was nominated for the Discovery of the Year World
Soundtrack Award for his score in the BAFTA award-winning film, Crying With Laughter. The same year, he was nominated for the prestigious Glenfiddich
Spirit of Scotland Award.
Lorne began his career in Hollywood providing additional music on several major motion pictures, including the second and third installments of The
Pirates of the Caribbean,
The Simpsons Movie, Angels & Demons, Iron Man, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He also composed additional music on the 2009 Golden
Globe nominated film Frost/Nixon. Complimented by his additional music, Balfe's role as a score producer on 2008′s The Dark Knight earned Lorne a Grammy for Best Score
Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture.
In 2009, Balfe was music producer and composer of the Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare 2 video game, and score producer for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, which earned a 2010 Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. Only a year later, in 2011, Balfe produced the score for
Christopher Nolan's Inception, which also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.
In more recent years, Balfe has composed additional music for The Dark Knight, Inception, Rango, Kung Fu
Panda 2, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Madagascar 3, and 2012′s The Dark Knight Rises.
Balfe's recent solo projects have kept him hard at work in the UK, composing for Ironclad, The Sweeney, and the upcoming films, Not Another Happy Ending (starring
Karen Gillian of Doctor Who) and Side by Side. His music is featured in the BBC and Sundance Channel TV mini-series, Restless, which earned Balfe an Emmy Award nomination. In the US, Lorne has recently worked alongside director, Scott Walker for the upcoming film, The Frozen Ground, starring John Cusack, Nicolas Cage and
Vanessa Hudgens. In collaboration with composer, Rachel Portman, Lorne has just completed the music for 10×10′s feature documentary, Girl Rising, directed by Academy Award nominee, Richard E. Robbins that features narration by actresses such as
Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett.
When he hasn't been composing for film, Balfe has found additional footing in the video game world. In 2011, Balfe composed alongside Jesper Kyd for the game, Assassin's Creed: Revelations and earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Music. A year later in 2012, Balfe was already hard at work composing Skylanders: Giants and Assassin's
Creed III, which earned Balfe his second BAFTA nomination for Best Original Music, as well the BSO Goldspirit Award for Best Score for a Video Game. His upcoming projects include the film Salinger and the game BEYOND: Two Souls.
