music
Anyone know where I can get the theme music from the opening credits?
"The finalised alligning of objects, cease to rest my mind."
bump this coz ive been looking and i cant find it - apparently Mark Russell is composer
shareKingdom caught my eye because it starred Stephen Fry but it drew me in with the opening of a beautiful melancholy scene of a solitary man, alone in more ways than just the beach, full of questions and no one to ask for the answers. You could tell his heart was broken, his life unsettled, all through this introduction of a yet unknown character the music drew me into watching the series. The music made me contemplate every hint of this man Kingdom's life while he stood on the beach. From the music I knew he would be our hero but one with heartache and whimsy so my eyes searched for more clues to a man who could inspire such music to be written. The single set of foot prints walking out to the beach alone, the dog knowing they were there for more than a stroll, this was Kingdom's time, his moment for his own thoughts which I assumed he must rarely get during his busy day, the earbuds I knew played the same dulcet harmony into his ears that we were hearing as we watched his eyes both earnestly and hopelessly look for someone or something he loved and had lost in the water. Then he removes the ear buds, takes a breath and returns to town, to his job, beginning his day. Not with a depressed spirit but one who started listening to music with a sad, heavy heart and like the waves on the beach each chord washed a bit of the secret burden he carried away as the music became more beautiful, more solitary but without loneliness. He could now face the day because "his theme song" had given him time to reflect, a moment to mourn and then combining both the beauty of the scenery about him and the chorus lifting him he could turn with renewed strength and face another day. I was GOING to watch this show to find out who this man, Kingdom was and how hecame to be on this beach. I now had to, I was caught up in the music and what it made me see! That, Mr. Russell is what my eyes, ears, and heart perceived from hearing just mere moments of your song. To call it opening credits would be a crime, though it is the only show in which I've ever watched the closing credits in order to hear the music just once more.
I agree with the one poster who commented that the music sounded familiar. To me it was as if I had heard it before as part of a love story in a movie once watched. However, I don't know if that's because it, the music, reminds me of something beautiful, so being a soundtrack it must be from a movie. Or if it is like a new love who you just met but feel like you've known each other forever, lovers in a former life? Something about your music is binding to the heart. I wonder as I write this if you composed it already having been shown the opening credits and with a basic knowledge of the upcoming stories to follow? Or, if instead, one day when you were brimming with emotions, the intense emotions that make you have to be a composer, did you take your pencil to paper after your fingers had already found each key in perfect order as if it was a tune you had kept in your soul for a long time so it just poured out?
You are a true musician not only because you are obviously talented but because you wanted to share your love of music with others without asking for anything in return. After watching the first episode I went straight to iTunes to find Kingdom's soundtrack and didn't, much to my great disappointment. But I will now renew the search because if it was on there once it can be found at some store somewhere on the Internet. That's why I so love the Internet, it is truly the world wide web-catching us all up as it crosses the many boundaries of the world bringing us closer together. What chance would any of us had to have you respond to a simple question not even addressed to you personally? Yet we all get to share in the answer! We are able to find these long ago canceled shows and enjoy them when we'd never had the opportunity before and hopefully are able to buy the music that touched us. Then we can listen to it again and again within moments of finding the treasure we sought!
Being home bound most days I am somewhat lonely, bored and in pain. So until my home fills with the wonderful sounds of my family in the afternoon I use the Internet to learn new things, to watch shows I would've missed if only offered on the television here, catch both great and horrible movies that passed by during the weeks I wasn't able to make it to the theatre and re-watch classics I love of both genres. The Internet allows me to keep learning and have topics to discuss with my children when they return home from school, it gives me the opportunity to hear and see things I will never be able to in person unless THE blue police box shows up! And today it gave me the rare chance to tell a composer that he has a muse with him, his music is beautiful, moving and thought provoking while still being calm and soothing to the mind. I'm glad I came to the message board to rant about the unresolved series ending but instead found the one person whom I'd never dream of "meeting" today! Then being able to say to him, to you, "Thank you for following your dreams. I'm sure there were times when you wanted to quit but lucky for the rest of us you were intrepid! You touch so many people with your music and inspire other young, brilliant but scared composers to never give up. I'm so glad to have this chance to tell you all these things! Thank you Mr. Russell for giving me a song to hear and enjoy, that truly touched me over the past 3 days as I watched the series in it's entirety."
So now for everyone's sake I will take my prolific writing and move over to comment on the ending of the series! Much happiness to you all and your immense patience if you've read this far! Remember music can never be stopped, not in the concentration camps or the fields of the south, music will always carry on and carry our soul along with it.