Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra are British composers who have collaborated on various TV,

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and

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projects as part of their company, Swallow Studios. Their specialty is

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, although they have also written in other

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s. They are also known as Blythe Joustra.

Career

Blythe and Joustra have been composing music together for 25 years and in that time they have composed over 1000 pieces of music for television, radio, film, production music libraries and video. Joustra's background is as a classically trained

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. He is a

pianist and has played in a variety of orchestras,

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, jazz quartets and a TV House band. Blythe's background is in recording and production. Having started out as a

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in various rock and pop bands, he opened and ran a commercial recording studio. It was through this that he and Joustra met. They quickly established a mutual ambition to write music for television and initially gained experience composing soundtracks for corporate videos, radio commercials, and live events. Since then, they have contributed tracks to over 40 library music albums and written themes and incidental music for clients all over the world. Aside from

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, they wrote music and songs for the UK TV show

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, which aired between 2002 and 2006. A soundtrack CD of this music was released.According to VGM Rush The tune "Good Evening and Welcome" appeared on the Swedish TV-series " Ursäkta röran (vi bygger om)" by

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and

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. They have also written music for

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List of works

Video games

Film/TV

Production Music Library

* As Heard On TV * Atmosphere Music Library * BBC Production Music * Big Shorts * Bruton * Chappell * Flexitracks

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blythe, Andy British composers British jazz composers Living people Video game composers Year of birth missing (living people)