Escape to the country background music??

[leejaysmum]

Does anyone know the artist/name of the background music in Escape to the country? Have had a scout around on the net but drew a blank. Its played at regular intervals during the shows of the current series. Its a lovely dreamy chillout tune....they play a snippet of it over & over.
Thanks in advance.

[vinnytheveggie]

Hi Wolrad. It was no. 32, ‘Spring’ by Laura Rossi. A lovely tune; I’m gonna download the album on iTunes.
I spent a day trying to find out who composed the original ‘opening theme’ and the best I could come up with is Matt Coldrick. You could try to confirm this by contacting him via: http://au.linkedin.com/pub/matt-coldrick/3b/3a4/590
The present ‘opening theme’ is by Jon Wygens (from programme end credits).
Thanks again for your help and a thank you to dinkyall as well.
Peace and love to all.

[Wolrad]

Hi Vinnietheveggie, glad you identified the tune - I agree that Spring is a lovely tune (as are all the others of course). This is one of the few tunes they continued to use in series 14. So far though in series 15, I've only heard it once and in fact they are using the 'older music' even less than in 14. Although much of the current music is that of Paul Mottram, they have seemingly even ditched his 'Morning dew' and 'Green & pleasant land'. They are using hardly any guitar/ piano tunes now and much as I like the current music, I'm still disappointed that the pre series 14 music is not used. Some of the current series 15 music is akin to Feature Film incidental music - totally out of context with the programme in my view. Re the original 'Opening theme' - I have been exploring & sampling most of Acoustic Alchemy's stuff but drawn a blank. Some months back, I sampled as much of Matt Coldrick's music as I was able - none of it was in any way of similar style to the opening theme. I did attempt to contact Matt but never received a reply so still no closer to solving this mystery. I also found it offered by one of the 'Mobile ring tone' sites - simply labelled as........ yes you've guest it! ...... Escape to the Country opening theme. I even emailed the web site to ask if they know the track title - again no response. This was in addition to me contacting the programme makers (Boundless / Fremantle media) - who did supply a small list of some of the previous tracks but again no response when I specifically asked about the opening theme. Someone out there knows.............

[Wolrad]

Further to my track list (posted 24/8/14 - see previous page) I have now added 3 more recently identified tracks. They are as follows:
* Coast to Coast - Terry Devine-king
* Beginnings - Adam drake / Neil Williams
* Acoustic Plains (probably version 3) - Igor dvorkin / Duncan Pittock
These are all on Audio Network.
Still no joy in identifying the previous 'Opening theme' though.

[TingsInBoots]

[TingsInBoots]

[TingsInBoots]

If anyone could ID the track at 9:12 I will be eternally grateful. Lovely piano melody.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006vb2f/episodes/player?page=3

The programme is North East Wales- Series 12.

[Wolrad]

Hello TingsInBoots, Only just seen your question realting to track on North East Wales Programme (series 12). Your link is now not available so I am unable to listen to it. However, if you visit my track list - Answer no.17 on page 1, it may be a case of finding each track and giving them a listen. The chances are that the track you are looking for will be there - Wolrad

[vinnytheveggie]

Hey Wolrad,
Long time no speak. Well one good turn deserves another. I have managed to get hold of all the tracks on your list (most are 'lowish' bit rates but still sound great). Contact me via eBay (same username) for more info.
All the best.

[Wolrad]

Hi Vinnytheveggie - great to hear from you and really glad that you have managed to get hold of all the tracks. Tell me more........... I'll contact you via ebay