About

Mogul & the Prawn is Alexandra Benedict (the Mogul) and Tris Taylor (the Prawn).  We write quirky, edgy and beautiful music for film and TV.

We’ve worked on films that premiered at Festival de Cannes, Shot By The Sea, and La Biennale de Venezia, and this year we’re looking forward to premieres at Soho Shorts and two more festivals that we can’t mention yet.

Alexandra is a producer, pianist, theremin player, vocalist and lyricist who studied film music for her MA and fronted our ‘obscenely good’ alternative band The Black Tulips (described by Drowned in Sound as ‘inherently glorious’).  Tris is a Grade 8 saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who performs, engineers, produces and mixes every part on his upcoming indie pop album.

When we’re not scoring films, our records have been released by Filthy Little Angels, PinPrick Records and Acid Allstars and heard on radio stations worldwide including XFM and BBC Radio 1.  Our solo albums as Pimpernelle and Benbo are due out in 2011 and 2012, the latter backed by Cooking Vinyl Music.

We’ve been lucky enough to meet some extraordinary people and collaborate with them in art forms ranging from performance to illustration to animation to painting.  Alexandra has published poetry in some of the UK’s top journals, sold out chapbooks of her stories at the Manchester Children’s Book Festival, and co-written a script that won a London Independent Film Festival award.  Tris has produced a comeback single for hardcore oi! punk pioneers The Blood, live-jammed acid techno with German electronica legends at the Cologne Artheater, and got international club play for his remixes of bands like New York’s Schizo Fun Addict and London’s The Teeth.

In 2006, Nick Pilton gave us our first chance to compose for film, and we were truly bitten by the bug.  Thanks Nick!

Film credits:

In post-production:

  • Eden Burning, dir. Mike Laloë
    (feature horror - slated for distributor release later this year)
  • Makers, dir. Amadin Ryan
    (feature documentary - premiere to be announced shortly)

2010:

2009:

2008:

  • Down Like Disco, dir. Jake Scott
    (premiered at Cannes Short Film Corner)
  • Peckish, dir. Ewan Kilgour (arrangements/additional music)

2007:

  • A Day At The Woods, dir. Jake Scott
  • Projection Bombing, dir. Jake Scott
  • Chill Winston, dir. Jake Scott
  • Jack The Ball, dir. Angus Giorgi
  • Forest, dir. Clarissa Mosse

2006:

  • Incoming, dir. Nick Pilton
  • Ongoing, dir. Nick Pilton
    (Nick won Best No-Budget Film at the 2009 London Independent Film Festival)

Commercials, corporates & TV formats

Tris looks after these commissions; we have scored commercials, corporates and TV shows for QTel, Tesco, Investec, Tourism South East, Galleon Entertainment, Cellcast, On|Off TV and many others.

Licensing

We love it when people want to use a track from one of our solo albums or bands. We’re fully independent and retain the rights to most of our music, which can be licensed through Paul Kinder at Cooking Vinyl Music in the UK and their worldwide network of sub-publishers, including Downtown in the US.

You can also license directly through Mogul & the Prawn, and we can find tracks for you.  Contact Tris on 07868 635535 or theprawn@mogulandtheprawn.com.

Showreel

Head over to our showreel page to listen to film or commercial work.

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