New Age Artist Albedo nominated for “Best Soundtrack Album” by Independent Music
Awards
New Age Music Artist Albedo of Salt
Lake City, UT has just been nominated for the “Best Soundtrack
Album” award for his album “Forgotten Lands”. He joins more
than 300 exceptional self-released and independent label artists, as
well as former major label acts named today by Music Resource Group
(MRG) as Nominees in The 12th Annual Independent Music Awards (The
IMAs), the influential awards program for independent bands and fans.
Representing the broad spectrum of
today’s global independent music scene, the Nominees in over 80
Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories were culled from
thousands of submissions from North America, South America, Asia,
Africa, Australia, Greenland and Europe.
The album “Forgotten Lands” is the
soundtrack to the video game “Forgotten Lands VIII: The Legend of
Shadow Lake” by TBC Productions. The game itself is a medieval
fantasy written in the old classic 2D 8-bit style of the mid 1980s.
The musical style ranges from ragtime to fiddle music to full
orchestral score, plus many other varieties in between. A more recent
classical album by the artist called “Symphony No. 1” is a five
movement symphony based on the music from this album.
Albedo is a New Age Music Artist who
also writes in the Classical, Soundtrack and Dance genres. Since
being formed in January of 2002, many of his songs have been
performed by several groups including the Murray Concert Band, the
Davis County Symphony, plus others outside of Utah, and lots of dance
clubs around the world. "The Battle of Shiloh" from the
album "Digital Fingers" was performed at Carnegie Hall in
April of 2011. Eight albums have been officially released including:
a tribute album called "Cliff Millward" released in 2013,
which is a collection of classical works composed by Clifford
Nicholas Millward (1933-2013). A new age Christmas album in 2012 that
contains a collection of secular and sacred Christmas songs with live
and synthetic elements. Similar in style to Mannheim Steamroller,
Kurt Bestor, and Jon Schmidt. "Symphony No. 1" also
released in 2012. "Forgotten Lands" in 2011. A collection
of classical orchestral works by Utah composers called "Digital
Fingers" in 2010. Also a dance album called "7th Heaven"
in 2008, which was described by a fan as: "Mannheim Steamroller
goes to the club!".
Winners of the Independent Music Awards
will be determined by a panel of influential artist and industry
judges including Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Ziggy Marley,
Suzanne Vega, Meshell Ndegeocello, Del McCoury, Pete Wentz, Shelby
Lynne, G. Love, Jim Lauderdale, McCoy Tyner, Brandi Carlile, John
Medeski & Chris Wood (Medeski, Martin & Wood), Judy Collins,
Raul Midon, Andrea Marcovicci, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Bernie
Worrell, Jeremy Taggart, Toots Hibbert, Dennis Diken, Joel Madden,
Arturo Sandoval, Jonatha Brooke, Alan Light (Live From The Artists
Den), Terry McBride (Nettwerk Music Group), Kevin Lyman (Vans Warped
Tour), Jason Olaine (Jazz at Lincoln Center), Anthony DeCurtis
(Rolling Stone), Dan Storper (Putumayo World Music, Bob Ludwig
(Gateway Mastering), Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records) and others.
The results will be announced in May, 2013.
In addition to industry-determined
Winners, music fans from around the world have until Friday, July 19,
2013 to cast their votes at The IMA Vox Pop Jukebox
(http://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/12th/Album/Soundtrack-Cast-Recording)
to determine the fan-selected program winners. The Independent Music
Award Winners will be promoted to nearly 1 billion music fans
worldwide.
