My co-operation with director Philip Gardiner is getting yet another episode. Today I finished the title song for a new movie called ‘Cam Girl’. Filming will start next week and the release is planned for just after the summer. It is a Film Noir production that will be released only on DVD around July of this year. The script for the film was written by Philip and John Symes.

The movie, that will be an experimental one in many ways, will launch new British actress Layla Randle-Conde onto the scene. The song is as melancholic as I they come. It was a short and emotional process to write it. Just a piano, a cello and some strings to sketch a musical landscape for a single vocal line.

PRESS RELEASE
London, 4th January 2010

Dutch singer/songwriter Corjan will feature in a new British Psychological Thriller movie titled ‘The Stone’.

The Stone is a movie production by bestselling author and award winning film maker Philip Gardiner who will be the director and co-wrote the script with John Symes. The film will be released in 2010 to festivals across the world before being distributed on major release.

In the film, Corjan will play himself in and will perform his single “Haunting me down” which he wrote especially for the occasion. His show will be filmed on an abandoned RAF airbase near Rendlesham, United Kingdom that previously served as the backdrop for StarWars and Mission Impossible.

Gardiner and Corjan got in touch as a result of Corjan’s Mystery Pop project, an upcoming album full of songs each inspired by a bestselling international Mystery book and and endorsed by its author. Corjan wrote a song inspired by Philip Gardiner’s book ‘The Bond Code’ and performed in his talkshow on SKY TV last year.

The film ‘The Stone’ will feature special effects by the same team who produced ‘Shaun of the Dead´ and actors such as Tony Scannell (The Bill), Bunny Reed (Hammer) and several unnamed A-list actors a.o. from the Harry Potter cast.

In the film, Corjan will perform alongside Staffordshire Rock Band ´No Redemption´ of Gemma Simpson and James Earnshaw who will also do the musical direction.

For more info check The Stone Official Movie Website

2010 is going to be a busy year. After my work for the Back Slasher movie, I got involved with another British movie production, working title ‘The Stone’. It will be directed by award winning film maker Philip Gardiner. I can’t tell you anything about the script yet. What I can say is that it will be a psychological thriller with a twist in the tail and some great actors including Tony Scannell from the British police series The Bill and Chris Rankin who plays Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films.

Besides me doing a song and maybe a signature theme I was asked to actually play a small part alongside these heroes. Now there’s an offer one shouldn’t lightly refuse so after thinking for about half a second I gave the ‘I will’. The producers have reserved a big amount to get the movie on the major festivals and on TV so we should be in for some fun. The shooting is planned to start some time in January.

Something’s been brewing in the last couple of weeks. While I was suffering from a severe flu, my songs have done a lot of work for me. After they had seen my performance on SKY Controversial TV and heard the three songs I have written so far in my Mystery Pop project, California based media company Reality Entertainment and British Mass Marketing guru Martin Faulks concluded that we should team up for success. We believe that we are truly complementary as artist, label and marketeer.

Reality Entertainment is owned by legendary rock producer Warren Croyle who has worked with a diverse array of artists such as the Outpatience with Guns and Roses to Roy Hay of Culture Club not to mention Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, Paul Kelly, Godhead, Marcy Playground, Warrior, Face to Face and many more.. How Reality Entertainment came into being is nicely described in this article. At present Reality has some of America’s best metal acts in its porfolio combined with more mainstream bands like KC and the Sunhine Band. What I like best about Reality Entertainment is their no-nonsense approach and their thorough understanding of today’s media landscape. They are groundbreaking and a healthy firm in a sick industry. Working with Reality enables me to launch my songs and upcoming Mystery Pop album to an enormous audience in the US, the UK and basically the rest of the world.

Martin Faulks will guide me on the way as far as promotion is concerned. Martin, is an independent marketing and mass media specialist. He also has a heart for the music industry and publishing. To illustrate that he currently runs the promotion for another legendary music producer. Peter Waterman’s book The Fame Factor is an easy to follow step by step guide to the formula that helped Pete to make Kylie Minogue, Steps and Bananarama household names. Talking about learning it from the best…

We have decided we are not in a hurry. I’ll keep writing songs for bestselling Mystery authors until we have enough material for an album, after which we’ll dress up for battle. As a first step on the way, Reality Entertainment will produce a video clip for my latest song in the Mystery Pop project: the Bond Code. After City of Secrets, this is really the song that opened the door for me. The song will be available in all the major online stores in a couple of weeks and is already now on Amazon.com.

From now on, my artist name will be “Corjan”. I will drop “De Raaf”, (which wasn’t actually even my real last name).

Never in a million years could I have imagined that I’d ever get the chance to sign up with a significant American label, let alone on equal terms. I now know you can feel very small and very big at the same time.

On with the show!

My appearance on SKY TV has resulted in another spin-off. Philip Gardiner, the show’s host is also a bestselling author and award winning film maker. Philip is the author of Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon’s Temple Revealed; The Ark, the Shroud, and Mary; Secret Societies; and Gateways to the Otherworld. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows and created several award-winning documentaries, including Freemasonry for the Discovery Channel. His most succesful book to date has been The Bond Code. The book deals with legendary creator of James Bond, British intelligence officer and author Ian Fleming, who discovered the ancient concepts of Gnosis through the works of Carl Jung and worked the ideas into his books.

This weekend I finished a song that was inspired by The Bond Code. Although I didn’t set out to write a typical Bond-song, the result would fit seemlessly into the score of a Bond movie. It’s got the horns and the trumpets, the percussion and the strings. The song deals with Ian Fleming, who lost himself in the character he created and who was everything he ever wanted to be. It was fantastic to sing about tuxedo’s, champagne, saving the world and the betrayal of a hero. Thoroughly loved every minute I spent in the studio with this one. The song is now with The Masters to get mastered. Philip Gardiner’s production company will make a video for this song in the next couple of weeks. I feel like I am being spoilt rotten and love every minute of it.

Let the music play!