John’s trusty Appalachian dulcimer was called into action, e-bowing its way into becoming a main sonic feature of the score, whipping and gritting its way to the foreground as well as providing pedal type structures on which other elements could take the stage.

Watch the music video for The World Keeps Turning, from the Hinterland / Y Gwyll soundtrack album 

It was back in the early summer of 2013 that I first started discussions with Mike Pearson & Mike Brookes about Christopher Logue’s...

I knew that I would have the creative freedom to fill the space with sound, and so I aimed to create rich and gradually evolving textures...

Watch the 'making of' film about the soundtrack for The Hunchback in the Park, composed by John Hardy and recorded by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by John Hardy...

the slightly scary but very exciting process of creating, from scratch, a sophisticated and tightly composed soundtrack...

Exactly half way through the massive but thrilling task of creating all the music for the new Welsh drama series Hinterland - Y Gwyll, colleagues at John Hardy Music have been...

As often happens with the more creative TV projects, whether documentary or drama, there were many unknowns when key decisions had to be made on this...