Anže Rozman and Kara Talve: the music of Prehistoric Planet and Personal Reflections
Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman
09/02/23
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Kara Talve and Anže Rozman are composers with Bleeding Fingers Music and together wrote with Hans Zimmer the acclaimed score to the incredible tv series Prehistoric Planet. I was so impressed by this series, and the first part of this episode digs into the unique instruments that were created for this powerful score, and the other part of this episode is a personal and in-depth conversation with Kara and Anže about their lives. They shared their individual stories about challenges, mentors, and have great advice for younger composers. In the show notes and linked to the podcast are 2 bonus tracks which are concert pieces by both Anže and Kara; these pieces are excerpted in the main episode as well. I’ve included detailed timestamps and you can listen to this on your favourite podcast player, watch the YouTube video, read the transcript and see the gallery of images related to this episode,all linked on my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ane-rozman-and-kara-talve
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(05:10) creating the music for Prehistoric Planet with custom instruments
(19:23) help support this series through my Ko-fi page
(19:39) Euphone audio sample, more about unique instruments used in Prehistoric Planet
(22:46) Mark Deutsch Banzantar
(24:48) Bleeding Fingers Music, working with Hans Zimmer and Russell Emanuel
(31:08) Anže’s early years composing, challenges, networking
(34:08) excerpt from Flight/Death from Phoenix for Solo Flute and Orchestra by Anže Rozman
(34:49) finding opportunities to write for different instruments
(37:08) emigration: dealing with homesickness
(38:42) working with orchestras
(41:09) Berklee in Spain, networking skills, connecting with Hans Zimmer
(46:21) advice for people who want to move to LA
(49:13) Kara Talve experience of moving to LA
(51:57) composing for The Simpsons
(52:49) how Tara’s grandmother was saved from the Nazis by her piano teacher Andrée Levallois
(57:34) excerpt from “Winter Rhapsody” by Kara Talve
(58:45) mentors at Berklee Ruth Mendelson and Steven Hunt, Kara’s dad
(01:02:01) Anže reflecting on negative attitudes, advice about following your interests, Jani Golob
(01:08:07) Tara’s bad experiences with piano lessons
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Summer Update and Highlights Compilation for Season 3
August 3, 2023
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I had a lot of fun stitching together some of the many highlights from this Season 3 so far, in a 10 minute compilation I’ve posted to both my podcast and here on my YouTube: I've included clips from every full episode in 2023 so far in this video!
It’s time for my summer break, but the podcast will be back September 2nd with a special episode with two composers who are life partners and also work together with Hans Zimmer at Bleeding Fingers Music. Anže Rozman and Kara Talve will inspire you with both the music of Prehistoric Planet and their personal stories, insights and compositions. I’m including some clips here from that episode, and I’ve also recorded a couple of other fascinating episodes that will be released in September. If you’d like access to regular Sneak Peeks, you need to sign up for my newsletter on my website: https://mailchi.mp/ebed4a237788/podcast-newsletter
Please check out my back catalog for episodes you’ve missed, and keep in mind that you can use the timestamps if you ever want to skip to a certain section or music track.
The podcast, show notes and transcripts are on my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/about
Support this podcast: https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman
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This bonus track is connected to my in-depth conversation with composer Anže Rozman and his partner and colleague at Bleeding Fingers Music, Kara Talve. An excerpt of this piece was included in the main episode, and here is the complete 3rd movement of Phoenix for Solo Flute and orchestra by Anze Rozman, entitled Last Flight/Death. The solo flutist is Eva-Nina Kozmus, the conductor is George Pehlivanian and the orchestra is the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Show notes, video, transcript, image gallery, main episode, all linked: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ane-rozman-and-kara-talve
Anže Rozman's Website: https://www.archestralmusic.com/
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