Benbrick is a Peabody Award Winning, multi-million selling songwriter, composer, and producer.
His work ranges from the heartbreaking Sakura Nagashi from Japanese Record Award winning Fantôme, to his stirring and ethereal scores and genre-bending production for George The Poet’s multi award-winning Have You Heard George’s Podcast?
In 2024 Benbrick composed the original music idents and station sound for BBC Radio 3 Unwind with the BBC CO at Maida Vale.
The Peabody Award Winning Have You Heard George’s Podcast?
In 2018 Benbrick started working with spoken word artist George The Poet; composing the original score, and producing what would become Have You Heard George’s Podcast? After releasing 8 episodes in Chapter One, the podcast was described as “a story that could change the world” by BBC Radio 4. The podcast won 5 Gold British Podcast Awards including the Podcast of the Year award, it received press in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, and GQ.
“His collaboration with Benbrick has shifted all our expectations about what podcasting can do in terms of narrative ambition and exploits the musicality of the spoken word.”
For the release of Chapter Two the pair announced they were joining BBC Sounds. This partnership would lead to a live BBC Radio Theatre show with music composed by Benbrick and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The pair ended the year in Uganda creating George’s guest segment on the long running Radio 4 Today Programme. In 2020 #HYHGP won Best Podcast at the NME Awards, Podcast of the Year at the Broadcast Press Guild awards, as well as the prestigious Peabody Award.
For Chapter Three we had the chance to spend three days at the legendary Abbey Road studios with the BBC Concert Orchestra recording my original score.
We celebrated the release of the third season with a sold out live show at the Barbican, and a nomination for the 2021 Rose d’Or for Audio Entertainment.
Following the release Benbrick wrote an article for the BBC about the process of producing a podcast during a pandemic, and took part in a live streamed BBC Academy event about his work.
“Benbrick is among the most imaginative and forward-thinking producers in audio right now.”
Financial Times on Futile Attempts.
SOUND DESIGN SERIES
Songwriting. The search to explain complex human emotions through music.
Benbrick is a multi-platinum selling songwriter and producer. His collaboration with Utada Hikaru sold 500k copies and was included on her subsequent record Fantôme which went on to sell a further 1m copies, and win the Japanese Record Award for Album of the Year. Benbrick wrote Gasoline with Troye Sivan from his TRXYE EP which reached #1 in 66 countries on iTunes, and hit #5 on the US Billboard 200.
Benbrick has released two EP’s. Closer | Closure and 陰り! (Eclipse).
Benbrick’s debut artist EP Closer | Closure is a heartbreakingly honest and modern take on the break up record with sparse but dynamic production framed by haunting vocals and intense lyrics. It was synced on various US TV shows. Benbrick’s second EP 陰り! (Eclipse) was created with support from decentralised media project Valu, with cover art created by illustrator Amidst Silence.
Piano sheet music for the song Sakura Nagashi (桜流し) written by Benbrick and Utada Hikaru for the movie Evangelion 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. The sheet music will be e-mailed within 24 hours.
Music for visuals.
Benbrick composed Sakura Nagashi for the end credits of the Japanese Academy Award winning movie Evangelion 3. ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版：Q is one of the top 25 highest-grossing anime films worldwide.
Benbrick was also additional composer on #1 German box office movie Welcome to Germany, and has had music synced in adverts and TV shows including work for McClaren, and worldwide adverts for P&G.
After hearing his original music interwoven with scenes from TV show Derek; Ricky Gervais called Benbrick “a future genius” and his music “stunningly beautiful”. This led to Benbrick composing for Ricky’s Tiger Time charity advert.
This is “Have You Heard George’s Podcast?,” a genre-defying piece of audio that pushes the limits of what a podcast can be.
Some episodes sound like surreal Alice in Wonderland excursions into the neural pathways of his brain. They are funny, poignant, ambitiously metaphorical, endlessly surprising — and this description […] does not even begin to do them justice.
Blows through the medium’s newly established boundaries, offering an experience as innovative as it is undefinable.
The intense, layered soundscaping – by production supremo Benbrick, using more than 4,000 audio tracks – is dazzling, driving the plot forward
Benbrick is among the most imaginative and forward-thinking producers in audio right now.
If you’re interested in sound, you should check it out: its aural soundscape is amazing, as you’d expect from a show produced by Benbrick.
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