Light Fader Music
Tailored Music
Original music and custom compositions!
For several years now, Light Fader has been accompanying audiovisual and video-game productions with original, tailor-made musical compositions. Our expertise ranges from studio-based MAO to recording with full symphony orchestras, in France and abroad.
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This flexibility is made possible by our mobile, international operation, which enables us to record with renowned musicians and ensembles all over the world. Whether in Tokyo, London, Montreal or Prague, we travel to guarantee the sonic excellence of every project.
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All our creations are directed by our resident composer, Jean-Claude Charlier, a musician renowned for his artistic rigor and his ability to dialogue with the most varied narrative universes.
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🎬 Series, films, 🎮 video games: we've already signed over a dozen game soundtracks, as well as music for feature films, animated series and documentaries.
​Find even more music on Jean Claude's website: https://jeanclaudecharlier.com
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We hope you enjoy listening...
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Playlists
DropDuchy is a strategy and construction game set in a stylized medieval universe, where every piece counts. Using logic, anticipation and a sense of balance, players build their duchy piece by piece, in an atmosphere that is both soothing and stimulating.
The soundtrack accompanies this cerebral challenge with refined medieval compositions, blending period instruments and organic textures. Designed to encourage concentration while immersing players in the game's atmosphere, this playlist creates a subtle balance between contemplation and strategic tension.
Cute Invasion plunges you into a FPS as absurd as it is disturbing, where little kawaii creatures become formidable enemies to be ruthlessly eliminated.
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The soundtrack cleverly plays on this contrast: a symphonic orchestral composition, at once majestic, dissonant and unstable, accompanies the rising tension of each level. The themes alternate between false sweetness and bursts of anguish, distorting the codes of the cute cartoon to better reveal the strangeness of the world around you.
A unique musical ambience, where the grotesque and the grandiose become one.
A cult icon of Japanese animation, Goldorak (Grendizer in Japanese) returns in a completely modernized version with Grendizer U. To accompany this return, we have reimagined its legendary main theme, through an ambitious symphonic re-orchestration that respects the original work.
The recording was made with the prestigious CNSO (Czech National Symphony Orchestra), in Prague, under conditions of excellence.
Our team handled the entire production: rewriting, artistic direction, recording, mixing and mastering, for a result that lives up to the myth.
In hot, romantic Spain, panache is king. This resolutely Hispanic cloak-and-dagger romp draws its energy from the spirit of Zorro-style adventures: clashing swords, horseback chases and masked heroes in search of justice.
The soundtrack fully embraces this flamboyant universe with a composition that is rhythmic, sunny and full of character. Dry guitars, palmas, Latin percussion... All the instruments are played by passionate musicians, including several flamenco players who enrich the sound identity of the game.
Welcome to the scorching asphalt of Road 96: Mile 0, DigixArt's emotional and vibrant prologue to the Road 96 universe. Here, the journey is as much through the landscape as through the characters' minds, and music plays a central role in this inner journey.
To match the visual and narrative aesthetics of the game, the soundtrack plunges into the world of synthwave, with its soaring strings, pulsating bass and retro rhythms straight out of the 80s.
Designed to accompany both intense gameplay phases and suspended moments, the soundtrack is electric, melancholic and resolutely stylized, somewhere between a daydream and latent tension.
It's a Good Day to Die is an American spy movie, where the boundaries between love and betrayal are blurred in a game of masks and lies. The soundtrack accompanies this complex, ambivalent relationship with deeply melancholic, romantic themes, carried by sensitive strings, hushed pianos and suspended harmonies. But behind this apparent gentleness lie the tensions of the plot, through darker motifs, subtle dissonances and musical writing inspired by the great codes of the espionage genre.
A balancing act between intimate emotion and latent danger, where every note contributes to the construction of a climate that is at once elegant, unsettling and laden with innuendo.
Our Composer
Jean Claude Charlier
A native of Marseille, Jean-Claude Charlier took his first steps in the world of sound in music studios, before blazing his own trail as an independent composer. Initially focusing on music for film and TV series, he soon developed his own personal signature: a taste for orchestral cinema, major narrative themes and emotionally rich arrangements.
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With a passion for film music, Jean-Claude draws his inspiration from both Hollywood classics and contemporary soundtracks. His approach is orchestral, powerful and cinematographic, but never confined to a single register. His strength: an assertive eclecticism and a rare ability to adapt.
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Capable of composing vibrant Hispanic themes, subtle Japanese atmospheres, retro synthwave textures and ambitious symphonic re-orchestrations. For him, each project is a unique adventure, nourished by listening, storytelling and the search for the right emotions.
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To date, he has signed some fifteen soundtracks for films, TV series and video games, working closely with the Light Fader teams on major productions in France and abroad.
