Ancient Future Music is an offshoot of the popular recording ensemble, Ancient Future. Since 1978, Ancient Future has been involved in creating new, exciting and beautiful music by combining musical forms from around the world. African, Chinese, Balinese, European, Indian, Japanese, Middle-Eastern, and South American music are all part of the Ancient Future pallette. This description may sound esoteric to some, but the music of Ancient Future is anything but that. It's extremely accessible, melodic, and rhythmic...perfect for creating just the right mood for your project.
Say you've got a film with locations in Europe, the U.S., and China. You want a contemporary score that will appeal to audiences, yet give the impression of being at each location. Now you don't have to go to three film score companies to get just the right music for each scene...Ancient Future Music can do it all.
Sitar, charango, scalloped fretboard guitar, mandolin, cello, violin, sarangi, Chinese string instruments, flutes, Chinese wind instruments, piano, tabla, thavil, morsing, ghatam, kanjira, gamelan, African talking drum, and Chinese percussion are just some of the instruments available.
Ancient Future's rates will please you. Your score will come in on budget, and on time.
Clients including the United Nations, MasterCard, National Public Radio, Viacom, Budweiser, and United Airlines have used our music.
"Uplifting, joyous and life-affirming. Uses a remarkable range of instruments to create breathtakingly beautiful tunes. At once complex and uncluttered, serene and yet energizing." --The Gazette Times
If you are wondering about the quality of produciton, there's no need for guess work!
Download this 57 second excerpt from the song Promise to the River, from Ancient Future's fourth release, Dreamchaser:
More sound files are available in Ancient Future's on-line catalog. Or order any of the Ancient Future CD's for the best sound quality.
Ancient Future director Matthew Montfort began his studies of Recordings Arts at the University of Colorado at Denver in 1976. In 1977 he was in the first class to utilize their state of the art recording facility at their newly opened Aurora campus. This innovative program was among the first to offer hands-on experience in all aspects of record production and engineering.
Montfort was one of the first wave of musicians to take advantage of computer recording technology, and so has decades of experience with digital workstation technology including Cubase and Pro Tools. In addition to record production, he is also very skilled at engineering, editing, mixing, audio restoration, and mastering. For modal music, he developed a process he calls Tuned Harmonic Mastering to tune the recording adjustments exactly to the tonalities of the music. He is an expert at audio restoration, with years of experience fixing problems in live recordings and restoring archival recordings. Among his favorite software tools for dealing with tape hiss, broadband noise, guitar squeaks, clicks, pops, unwanted ambient noise, and other audio restoration tasks is iZotope RX.
Montfort has been involved in the production of dozens of full length record releases. He has very high standards, yet knows how to capture a musician's best performance quickly. As a record producer, mastering engineer, and audio restoration expert, he accepts a limited number of projects that he feels could benefit the most from his unique skills.
If you have a project that requires music or record production, simply e-mail your
name, postal address, phone, e-mail address, and description of
your project to info@ancient-future.com, phone (415-459-1892 direct, or 1-888-8AFUTURE toll free in the USA ), mail a request to us at:
Ancient Future
P.O. Box 264
Kentfield, CA 94914-0264 USA
We will contact you.
