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The beautiful score presented here was composed by Mike Smith and set to this gem of a film, ’The Red Balloon’, a 1950’s French classic. 30 minutes of joyful escapism. Part of Project Flicks Composer Mike Smith: The one man that Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, Blur and Shaun The Sheep have in common is Michael Smith. Not surprisingly the versatile Mike has a solid track record in writing music for film and TV. Most recently he wrote, produced and performed songs for Aardman’s animated feature, Shaun The Sheep: Farmageddon (2019) released later this year. Mike also won an RTS Best Music Award for his score to the Bristol-based hit independent film, 8 Minutes Idle (Arthur Cox, iFeatures, BBC Films, and Matador Pictures). As a partner in Electric Wave Bureau, he co-composed and arranged the score for The Kid Who Would Be King (2018) as well as the award-winning Broken starring Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy. Mike also orchestrated the score for Ealing Studios’ remake of Noel Coward’s Easy Virtue, starring Jessi
