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Immediate Music is a music composition company based in Santa Monica

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, that is notable for providing a specialized library of high-end trailer music for commercial motion pictures. Since 1992, Immediate Music has licensed music from its library to hundreds of theatrical trailers and television spots for all the major Hollywood studios. The company's music has been featured in the trailers for films such as Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Avatar, Iron Man
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, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Coraline
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, the Spider-Man films, The Wolfman, and the Harry Potter film

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In 2007, Immediate received an Emmy for "Outstanding Music Composition in a Sports Program" for their work on the 20th Olympic Winter Games

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Immediate Music has its own band, called Globus

Globus (music)

Globus is the commercial name of a mix of producers, musicians and vocalists from the prominent movie trailer music production company Immediate Music...

, that fuses cinematic orchestral music with contemporary and world music rhythms.

Organization

Immediate Music was founded in 1993 by Jeffrey Fayman

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and Yoav Goren. Originally starting out as making music for film trailers, in 2008 the company opened its libraries to the video game and advertising industries.

The company is based in Santa Monica

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, California

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Trailer Music Live

On June 27, 2009, Immediate Music put on a concert called Trailer Music Live. A full orchestra and choir performed tracks from Immediate's trailer music library. Additionally, Immediate's cinematic rock band Globus

Globus (music)

Globus is the commercial name of a mix of producers, musicians and vocalists from the prominent movie trailer music production company Immediate Music...

played a set. Music from trailers such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Spider-Man, Lord of the Rings was performed.

Previously, Globus, the trailer music inspired rock band, had performed in England at Wembley, and the success of that venture has led to the US live performance.

Yoav Goren, co-owner and composer for Immediate Music, had this to say about the upcoming concert: "This event was received with such enthusiasm in London, that we felt compelled to bring it to the states. Trailer Music Live is truly a unique live concert experience for movie fans of all ages, featuring a large orchestra, choir and rock band bringing this emotional and epic movie music directly from the screen to the stage."

Discography

Immediate Music has released a number of albums that incorporate a wide range of genres, none of which however are commercially available to the general public. The most well known of these is the Themes for Orchestra and Choir series which currently has three multi-disk volumes. For the month of December 2010, Immediate Music made their TFOAC volumes 2 and 3 CDs available for purchase by the public.

Trailerhead

The company's third album, Trailerhead, was released in 2008. It is the first commercially available CD from Immediate Music, which includes new mixes from previous songs ("Serenata Immortale" is a new version of "Serenata" and of Globus' hit "Orchard of Mines", for example) and a few new songs (like "Imperitum") The album was released on MP3 and was made available through Amazon and iTunes.

Prometheus Rising
An Epic Age – Based on "Epicon"
Lacrimosa Dominae – Based on "Lacrimosa" and "Preliator"
Serenata Immortale – Based on "Serenata" and "Orchard of Mines"
Imperitum – Based on "Imperativa"
Trial of the Archangel – Based on "Witch Hunt" and "Archangel"
Prelude to Paradise – Based on "Prelude" and "Prelude (On Earth As In Heaven)"
The Reluctant Warrior
Spiritus Omnia – Based on "Spiritus Elektros", "Spiritus Sancte" and "Spiritus Khayyam"
Fides en Lucius Dei – Based on "Lucius Dei" and "Diem ex Dei"
Shield of Faith – Based on "Armed By Faith" and "Take Me Away"
Onward to Freedom
Empyrean Mercenaries – Based on "Heaven's Warriors"
Generations
Age of Discovery

Trailerhead: Saga

Trailerhead: Saga is their second commercially available album. It was released on July 20, 2010, on CD and was made available through Amazon and iTunes.

Hymnus Orbis – Based on "Hymn"
Glory Seeker – Based on "Defcon"
Libertas – Based on "Liberation"
Invictus – Based on "Divide and Conquer"
Oratio Sanctus – Based on "Holy" and "Madre Terra"
Emergence Of Empire – Based on "Rising Empire" [composed by Burt Goldstein]
In League With Cerberus – Based on "Final Omen 2", "Monolith", and "Blasphemy 2.0"
Darkness On The Edge Of Power – Based on "Dark side of Power"
Ashes Of War – Based on "Love And War"
World On A String – Based on "Global Crisis #1"
Salvation For A Proud Nation – Based on "Proud Nation" and "Salvation"
Fatum Plebis – Based on "O Destina"
Darkness On The Edge Of Power (Live)
Surrender To Hope – Based on "Believe"

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