On September 4, Bloomsbury will publish my third book, “A Dream Come True: The Collaboration of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti.”

I had made it a rule to never work with friends. Since I value my personal relationship with Gary and seek to protect it, for the longest time I didn’t offer to release his music on my label. What changed my opinion?

In early 2024, I received an unexpected email from a music supervisor asking me if I was interested in producing an album featuring the music for the multiple Emmy Award-winning HBO true crime hit “The Jinx.” Of course, I jumped at the chance since I had been a long-time fan of the show since it first aired.

After 11 years, my record label Caldera Records is going stronger than ever. To use business lingo: we are not a start-up anymore, we are a scale-up now. Every new project is exciting, and our album no. 58 was no exception for we had the pleasure to release the music for the recent Liam Neeson film In the Land of Saints & Sinners, composed by Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg.

We have signed the contract! My third book will be published by the esteemed company Bloomsbury in late 2025. Naturally, I couldn't be more chuffed.

For the past few months, I have been contributing to WELT TV's English-language documentary output. The first documentary I translated and edited this way for my client is particularly noteworthy for its rawness and unflinching depiction of the war in Ukraine. Bloodshed in Bakhmut is available on YouTube for free. I heartily recommend it - and would do so even if I hadn’t helped it come to life.

In 2011, I began creating music for the German audio drama series "Sherlock Holmes - Die neuen Fälle." I didn't realize at the time that this would become a long-term project. The final episode, episode 56, is now available on CD, LP, and streaming. It has been 13 years.

54 years after the film’s release, Roy Budd’s music for “Soldier Blue” has been released on CD. How come? This is the story of how I unearthed the tapes from a storage container in North Yorkshire.

One of my favourite things in life has always been discovering new stuff that excites me. Earlier this year, Oscar-winning composer David Shire and I discovered the 1960s recording tapes for his first film- and television compositions.

This summer, I was asked by the Europäische FilmPilharmonie to pen articles for their new homepage, which has now been unveiled.

Mein ausführlicher Artikel über den vergessenen Filmemacher Franz-Josef Spieker – „Tempel der frustrierten Träume: Das Verschwinden des Franz-Josef Spieker“ – ist im österreichischen „ray“ online erschienen.

After some delay, my new book, The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces – How Ignatius J. Reilly Defeated Hollywood, was finally published on December 2, 2022, by McFarland.