Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra are British composers who have collaborated on various TV, Production Music and game projects as part of their company, Swallow Studios. Their specialty is jazz, although they have also written in other genres. 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 1,000 pieces of music for television, radio, film, games, production music libraries, and video. Joustra's background is as a classically trained pianist. He is a jazz pianist and has played in a variety of orchestras, rock bands, jazz quartets and a TV House band.

Blythe's background is in recording and production. Having started out as a drummer 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 movies and video game music, they wrote music and songs for the UK TV show Dick & Dom in da Bungalow, which aired between 2002 and 2006. A soundtrack CD of this music was released.[1] The tune "Good Evening and Welcome" appeared on the Swedish TV series Ursäkta röran (vi bygger om) by Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson. They have also written music for OOglies.

List of works

Video games

YearTitleNotes
1994Mickey ManiaWith Matt Furniss & Michael Giacchino
1995Toy StorySega Genesis and Windows versions.
1997Formula 1 97
1998Rascal
A Bug's Life
1999Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
2000Muppet RaceMania
2001Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
2002Haven: Call of the King
2003Finding Nemo
2005Disney's Peter Pan: The Legend of Never-Land

Film/TV

YearTitle
1998Waffle
A Date with Fate
The World's Greatest Magic 5
The Naked Eye
1999–presentTonight
2002–2006Dick & Dom in da Bungalow
2003–2009How Clean Is Your House?
2006–2014The Slammer
2007Harry Batt
Chute!
2007–2009Mister Maker
2009Da Dick and Dom Dairies
My Last Five Girlfriends
2009–2011The Legend of Dick and Dom
2009–2015OOglies
I Can Cook
2011The Night Clerk
2012Hoopla
Diddy Movies
2012–presentLet's Play
The Martin Lewis Money Show
2013Jack the Ripper
2014–2017The Furchester Hotel
2017–presentSaturday Mash-Up!
2018My World Kitchen
2019The Tez O'Clock Show
2020How 3

References

  1. According to VGM Rush "VGM Rush - Andy Blythe". Archived from the original on 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
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