Artist: Craig Armstrong
Genre(s):
New Age
Instrumental
Discography:
The Clearing
Year: 2004
Tracks: 25
The Quiet American
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Moulin Rouge
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Kiss Of The Dragon
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
The Space Between Us
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Orphans
Year: 1997
Tracks: 20
Scottish producer Craig Armstrong scored non-finite soundtracks to much harbinger during the '90s and into the 2000s. His soundtrack utilisation was in fact so successful that many big-name artists, such as U2 and Madonna, began courtship him, bit he at the same time pursued a solo life history as a down-tempo electronica producer origin with The Space Between Us in 1998. Though his collaborations ar to a fault legion to list, Armstrong's most successfully paired with film film director Baz Luhrman, producing big-selling soundtracks for Romeo + Juliet (1998) and Moulin Rouge (2001).
Born in Scotland, Armstrong began his production career in the early '90s. He composed euphony for several BBC and STV productions during this time, simply his big break came with the Scottish pop trio Big Dish. Armstrong co-wrote tierce songs on the trio's Satellites record album, released in 1991, and besides provided string arrangements for the album. Three years later, in 1994, Armstrong worked with notable trip-hop mathematical group Massive Attack on its genre-defining Shelter record album. This association with Massive Attack would pay dividends a few old age afterward when the group released Armstrong's debut full-length record album on its Melankolic mark. By the end of the '90s, Armstrong had collaborated with such big-name artists as U2, Madonna, Hole, the Spice Girls, the London Suede, and Tina Turner, in addition to many other lesser-known artists.
As mentioned, Massive Attack released Armstrong's solo debut, The Space Between Us, in 1998. The record album didn't prove to be as popular as expected, just it notwithstanding increased Armstrong's reputation as a notable producer. During this same late-'90s eRA, Armstrong continued working on soundtrack projects, which remained his to the highest degree acclaimed work. His process for Jake Scott's debut film, Plunkett & Macleane, was peradventure his nigh seeable work, existence released by Astralwerks in the States (as had The Space Between Us a year earlier). However, he worked on soundtracks for much more than successful films such as Mission: Impossible (1996), Romeo + Juliet (1998), Fell Intentions (1999), and -- peradventure his nigh famous soundtrack work -- Moulin Rouge (2001). Following the success of Moulin Rouge, and its second volume, Armstrong returned in 2002 with his second non-soundtrack full-length exploit, As if to Nothing, which boasted a young version of U2's "Stay (Far-off, So Close)." In 2004, he provided the score for the Ray Charles biopic Electron beam, and in 2005, an anthology of his plastic film work was released.
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