About Work In depth
Big Frog Tango, Jazz Fly jams

A dream come true for us. We soundtracked a grumpy old frog who eats the staff, gave a fly a banjo, and invented a spooky ambient jazz genre to finish.

Oliver Place follows the adventures of Belle & Burt, porters of the eponymous "luxury inn" that exists in some kind of liminal apocalypse. 

The show’s creator, Jarrod Prince, wanted the pilot to feel a little like a European film of the ‘60s. We brought a toe-tapping tropical flavor to the otherworldly situation, contrasting brazilian samba with argentinian tango, gypsy jazz, and a kind of gentle jazz march cum spooky ambient number.

Cross-Diegesis

One of the many fun elements of working on Oliver Place was the creative use of ‘cross-diegesis’ to tell the story using music—where the song and score function as both the cartoon soundtrack and exist within the reality of the story. We first hear the theme music as, well, a theme song, but it quickly becomes the lobby muzak, piped in through hotel speakers. Similarly, the Belly of the Beast and Jazz Fly theme act as emotional underscore as well as being played and sung by the characters themselves. We always love doing that type of stuff.

Rare Collaborations

We also enjoyed rare musical collaborations with others. We produced and arranged the theme song, penned by Jarrod, and interpolated the melodies of Belly of the Beast Theme, contributed by musical comedy legend Scott Edgar from Australian band Tripod.

"You guys are wizards from another dimension"

~Jarrod Prince, Olive Place Creator

Original Score

Skillbard

Olive Place Theme

Jarrod Prince
Skillbard
Vocals: Michael Dockery

Instrumentalists

Double Bass: Itauguara Brandão
Guitar: Davi Mello
Drums: Fernando Moreno
Trumpet: Jon-Paul Frappier
Percussion: João Paulo Drumond
Accordion: Antônio Guerra

Belly Of The Beast Theme

Scott Edgar
Brass Section: Eamon McNelis

Sound

James Peter Brown