Bill Ryder-Jones began his musical career as the lead guitarist of The Coral, a six piece band whose psychedelic strain of guitar music exploded onto the Liverpool music scene in 2002. Highly wary of the singer-songwriter tag, Bill is now mainly focusing on a solo album and would rather be known for instrumental pieces perhaps born out of is affection for the film soundtrack works of Ennio Morricone, Jonny Greenwood, Yann Tiersen and Michael Galasso. Keen to score films himself, Bill is in the middle of exploring new liaisons with well known soundtrack writers and completed his own score for Liverpool produced film 'Leave Taking' funded by Vision and Media in the North West of England (more news to be announced soon about the film screenings for this release).

Here you can hear a score worked against some existing footage from Dutch film maker Michael Rogge. Michael has travelled the World with his film camera since 1938 and was good enough to let Bill create a soundtrack to some of his unique footage.

Photo by Sophie Jarry.

Multi-instrumentalist Matthew Eaton, is best known to Domino as one of the founding members of Pram but also as an accomplished sound designer with professional experience in theatre and film. Over the past three years, Matt has worked on countless scores for projects including Hamlet (Creation Theatre Co), It Ain't All Bollywood (Rifco Arts) and most recently worked on a production The Gambler for BBC Radio 3. Versitile and swift, Matt enabled by his own studio facilities has created sounds from exotic asian to mysterious and eerie to sugar plum nursery style. Only Matt knows how to make running a screwdriver along an electric guitar sound like the perfect match for an underwater dream.

Pram themselves are no strangers to film and TV usage. 'Track of the Cat' was used on a BT advert and have had uses in other commercials including Volkswagen 30 Years in the Making. Last summer, Birmingham (UK) had the pleasure of premiering a new collaboration between Filmficciones and Domino artist Pram at Supersonic Festival.  The half hour show screened black and white horror film footage accompanied by a live original soundtrack by Pram. Commissioned by Capsule (the curators of Supersonic festival), the show hopes to venture nationwide and beyond. Here you can watch the trailer for this production.

Jon Hopkins came to the attention of many when his track 'Light Through the Veins' formed the basis of 'Life in Technicolour' by Coldplay. Over the past few years, Jon has had the opportunity to work on and off stage with all sorts of high profile musicians including work with Brian Eno on the official soundtrack to Peter Jackson directed 'Lovely Bones'. The Hollywood  release starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon out in cinema's now features Jon's inimitable piano work and was a co-write between Hopkins, Eno and Leo Abrahams.

On stage, his own performances are often coupled with extraordinary VJ sets reveal the talent of being able to lure an audience from listening to accessible, classical piano melodies through to the outer limits of experimental, industrial electronic beats. This versitility has enabled Jon to work on sound design for countless advertising campaigns such as RKCR/Y&Rs 'Breathe' fire safety campaign above (directed by Dougal Wilson at Blink) and Honda CR-Z (above) directed by Frank Budgen. His reliable work ethic has made him a popular music provider in this field. Jon completed the soundtrack to Vertigo films' 'Monsters' for which its director Gareth Edwards won the Moët New Directors Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Jon also completed the soundtrack to the Partizan produced short film Rob & Valentyna in Scotland directed by Eric Lynne which premiered at Sundance festival in January this year.

Last year, Steven worked on the soundtrack to the short film 'Delphinium - a childhood portrait of Derek Jarman' - a stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of legendary painter, filmmaker, and activist Derek Jarman. Written and directed by Matthew Mishory it was shot on super8 and HD by cinematographer Lili Wilde. The film which resulted in a tour of the US by Severin played out at various festivals in the USA and ended up being projected onto an ice sculpture at Sundance.

Severin recently completed another score for 'A Long Weekend with the Son of God' by TV director George Carey which is due to air on UK TV soon.

Ralfe Band will be celebrating the DVD release of Bunny and the Bull on Wed 28 April by playing plenty of songs from the film at the Borderline, London.

Best known as the main man in the Beta Band, King Biscuit Time and Black Affair, Steve Mason has now announced the release of his new album, 'Boys Outside', out Monday May 3rd 2010.

Recently signed to Domino imprint Double Six, the back to basics 10-track album was produced by Richard X and Steve Mason. The album will be preceded by a single 'Lost & Found' on April 19th 2010. 'All Come Down' is still currently available as a free download here.

Steve has also been working as a soundtrack composer having completed music for US series La La Land - British character comic Marc Wootton’s first American series. BBC Three has bought the rights to air La La Land with a voice-over by Julian Barratt. The experience whilst challenging opened a whole new creative stream for Steve Mason who is interested in being involved in similar projects. In La La Land,  the UK .Contact Domino to find out more about engaging Steve for soundtrack opportunities. Steve's solo compositions are available for license from Domino.

We're thrilled to have Steve Mason on our roster and welcome him to the Domino family. More information can be found on his website here.