Records
Noah Elsewhere — EP
A finished EP — written, produced and mixed. Four songs, hook-led and built around one voice, open for a solo artist to take.
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Producer · Songwriter · Composer
Songs with
somewhere in them.
Commercial pop and R&B, written cinematically — hooks up front, rhythm borrowed from everywhere.
Records
Heiress EP · Noah Elsewhere · Singles
Sync & Licensing
Cue-ready · One signature, no third party
Film & Series
Rare Kind — directed and scored · Best Documentary, South Film & Arts Academy Festival
Written & produced by HAKEZE
HEIRESS
A complete girl-group record in today's commercial pop lane, written and produced end to end — five songs, a full world built before anyone was cast. No act attached, which is the opportunity: if you're building a group, or already have one, this is the work I'd bring to it.
Listen
Written and produced start to finish — lyric, melody, arrangement, mix. Anything here can be cut by your artist as it stands, or written from scratch to fit them. The Heiress EP plays in its own section above.
SONGS OPEN FOR THE RIGHT ARTIST
Selected work
DEMOS & COMMISSIONS
SINGULARITY
Single
Singularity
Noah Elsewhere with Heiress — two worlds on one record, and the EP's closer.
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Instrumental composition
A Tilted Crown
Composed, arranged and produced by Earl Cole. Full composition, 3:18.
Directed & scored
Rare Kind
Directed and scored the award-winning documentary, now held in the permanent archival record of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Music written to carry the story rather than steer it.
ROLEComposer · Producer · Writer · Director
AWARDSFestival wins and selections — full list
ARCHIVEMargaret Herrick Library & Film Archive, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
CREDITDirector · Composer · Producer — original compositions, scored to picture
Anywhere.
Dance records and slow ones. Songs for a full room and songs for a quiet one.
Commercial pop is the target — hooks, structure, something you can sing back on one listen. Jazz harmony, classical form and drum languages from four continents are how it gets there, and why it should still work in ten years.
Ideas can arrive in pieces. The skill is hearing which ones belong to the same thing — the sound, the look, the room it lives in — and getting there fast enough that it still feels found.
Studio
HAKEZE is Earl Cole — a producer, songwriter and composer in Los Angeles, working in the commercial and cinematic pop lanes.
The foundation is jazz and classical, with rock, soul and hip-hop in the hands and orchestration for picture. Above it is the way pop and R&B records were built in the nineties and early two-thousands, and rhythm and phrasing pulled in from wherever the song wants it — fused into the record rather than quoted on top of it.
The subject is always human — the small admissions people don't usually make out loud, scored like they matter.
PLAYSPiano · Sax · Violin · Ukulele · Percussion
BASEDLos Angeles
WORKS INPop · R&B · Score
BOOKINGNow booking
The room
Keys first, then the arrangement is built around what was played. Everything comes out of a studio in Los Angeles.
Most of the work is deciding what not to keep. Space is doing something — a part that isn’t holding weight comes out, however good it sounded going in.
Vocals here are demo performances — the writing, production, arrangement and mix are finished. Stems are on hand, and any song can be re-cut with your artist.
Work starts from my own idea or from someone else’s brief.
DELIVERSStems · Project files · Alt mixes · Instrumental · TV mix
OPEN TOAdditional production · Arrangement · Live instrumentation
CLEARANCEWriter and master held in-house — one-stop on original compositions
OudBorrowed language
Keys · MPCLos Angeles
What I do, and who for
CATALOG CLEARED AND READY TO PLACE · PUBLISHING · PRODUCTION · CO-WRITES
01
Songwriting
Hooks and lyrics written in the room — the melody that survives the drive home. Songs written for a specific voice, in an artist's style or building the sound they don't have yet.
FOR Artists & management · Labels & A&R · Writing rooms
02
Arranging
Reharmonizing, restructuring, building the parts around a vocal — gospel, jazz and classical training put to a pop song.
FOR Artists · Writing rooms · Other producers
03
Beats & production
Performed at the keys, then programmed and arranged. Global drums, synthesis, and a mix that moves air. Blank page to finished master, one point of contact for the whole record.
FOR Artists & management · Labels & A&R
04
Score & sound identity
Film, series and campaigns. Classical form underneath, a pop ear on top.
FOR Directors · Producers · Agencies
05
Sync & licensing
Placement for film, series, trailers and campaigns — original compositions, cleared in-house. Instrumentals, TV mixes and cut-downs on hand.
FOR Music supervisors · Publishers
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Selects on DISCO
Every song here can be licensed with one signature and no third party to wait on. The catalogue is unencumbered and looking for the right home.
AFFILIATIONASCAP writer and publisher · Society of Composers & Lyricists
PUBLISHINGKaialani Music Publishing — self-administered
CATALOGUERegistered ASCAP works · Full catalogue on DISCO
TRAININGUCLA Extension film scoring · Songwriters Sync MasterCamp
REPRESENTATIONDirect — unrepresented, deals negotiated in-house
Let's make something people keep.
studio@hakeze.com
Open to a publishing, songwriting or production deal, co-writes with other writers and producers — or a room to prove it in. Email is the way in; every message read.
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