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Guy, who works out of Sphere Studios, a state of the art
recording complex in Battersea, emerged onto the international film
scene as one of Europe’s leading composers. His style is warm,
melodic and distinctive, however it is the variety of his film
scores that sets him apart from his contemporaries; his music
includes sweeping orchestral scores, world music (Indian, African
and Asian), contemporary sound design and programming, as well as
highly successful collaborations with pop artists and producers.
Currently scoring the madcap comedy The Hot Potato
starring Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney and Jack Huston, Guy has also
recently completed a wonderful score for the comedy drama If I
were You with director Joan Carr-Wiggin, as well as a highly
ambitious short film, First Time and a sumptuous feature
length documentary feature for the Qatari Royal Family, Tales of
the Golden Age.
Guy scored I Know You Know for
Director Justin Kerrigan and starring Robert Carlyle, as well as
Roar, an award winning feature having been awarded the Grand
Prize at the Rhode Island Film Festival 2009, and The Flirting
Club, a 'Brit-Flik' comedy from Director Alex Jovy. Guy scored
the US feature, The Flock starring Richard Gere and Claire
Danes, The Christmas Miracle Of Jonathan Toomey starring
Joely Richardson and Tom Berenger, and Dot.Com for Fado
Films, as well as Operazione Pilota, an Italian feature. He
scored The Broken, filmed in London by Oscar nominated
director Sean Ellis, and Knife Edge, for director Anthony
Hickox, producers Janette Day and Pippa Cross, and starring Hugh
Bonneville. He produced a deeply affecting score for the horror
feature Book Of Blood for Matador Pictures. Guy also scored
four feature films in one year, and two further scores appeared on
commercial soundtracks, Modigliani and Mother Theresa of
Calcutta. Guy’s work is also to be heard on Sean Ellis’
directorial debut, Cashback, starring Emilia Fox, and the 2
part Italian film L’Uomo che Sognava con Le Aquila, directed
by Vittorio Sindoni. He also scored Land of the Blind
starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland, and Irish Jam a
comedy with Eddie Griffin and Anna Friel.
 Guy has to date had nine film score soundtracks
released as well as enjoying a highly successful time in scoring
commercials for Film and Television broadcast including worldwide
campaigns for Carling, Tetleys, Compare the
M(arket)eerkat(sic!), and Warburtons to name a few.
"....GUY FARLEY is one of the most promising up and
coming composers right now. In my opinion, his melodically sensitive
and masterfully orchestrated score for Modigliani was one of the
five best film scores all categories last year. It has now been
released by Milan Records in France…..
Scoring an action
flick might not be the most hip thing you can do, but some of the
music Farley wrote last year ranks among some of the best score
written for any film. And although its action score, melody is the
main asset – this is actually the case with all of the Guy Farley
works I’ve heard. For one piece in particular, Farley treated his
terrific main theme in a restrained, elegant and unexpectedly
beautiful way with piano, strings and solo female voice.
Showing a great talent for melody and thematic writing that
evokes warm memories of the French master Georges Delerue, Guy
Farley will definitely be one of film music stars of tomorrow. He
has recently scored the political drama Land of the Blind starring
Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland. Stay tuned for more Guy Farley
news as we will keep a very attentive eye on this amazing
talent!"
Mikael Carlsson
(News Editor
& Chief Correspondent) Music from the Movies. June 2005
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