Origins & Aspirations
A rebirth of Cinematic Rock for the 21st Century
As a child, Yoav Goren couldn’t quite understand it, but his soul was enraptured when he listened to rock records whose productions wove in orchestral soundscapes. The big, heavy and dramatic storytelling of songs like “A Day In The Life”, “Nights In White Satin” and “Somebody To Love” shaped his fascination with that bigger-than-life sound borne out of mixing guitars, drums, orchestras and choir. Later, as a composer working in Hollywood, he got the chance to score film trailers for franchises such as Spiderman, X-Men and Harry Potter with real live orchestras in large lush-sounding halls. And so when he first sat behind that recording console at Bastyr and heard his music robustly performed by a 70 member orchestra, the synapses were lit and the inspiration was on fire….
Goren took some of those early trailer scores and wrote new songs over the instrumental compositions, while bringing in world class musicians and vocalists to perform the new parts. This hybrid mix of sometimes lush, sometimes driving epic orchestra with a melodic rock song structure led to the birth of Globus and the genre Epic Rock, or alternatively, Cinematic Rock. The band was formed in 2006, a studio album was conceived and recorded, and a live show performed to critical praise at Wembley Hall in London.
Globus’ brand of music focuses on storytelling within various social and historical backgrounds, and as principle songwriter, Goren felt this was best accomplished via multiple and distinct vocal stylings. So the Globus body work purposefully features many unique vocalists. Lisbeth Scott, whose voice has graced many enduring film scores (Passion Of The Christ, Munich), and is an accomplished film composer herself, is regularly featured on several songs. Anneke Van Giersbergen, whose had a long and storied career as a singer-songwriter in her native Netherlands, is a frequent collaborator. Dann Pursey from the UK and Ryan Hanifl of the US are the primary male rock and alternative vocalists, while Goren himself sings lead on a few of the more personal tracks. Legendary musicians Robert Fripp and Gregg Bissonette have lent their talents to the band lineup, which otherwise has remained a steady roster throughout the production of three studio albums - Epicon, Break From This World, and Cinematica.
Globus hopes to bring its award-winning talent pool and gloriously epic sound to more live shows in 2023 and beyond, as the world opens up and yearns again for a human connection and the kind of viscerally emotional musical experiences that we love to produce...