Carvin Knowles

about

Carvin's music has appeared in over 20 feature films. Carvin Knowles was born in Long Beach, California to a mixed ethnic, multicultural family of musicians. At the age of 6, his family moved to Oklahoma, where as a teenager he became involved in the New Orleans-Tradition Marching Brass Band, "The T-Connection," playing funk and soul in a style that would eventually be banned as "indecent" in the city of where he lived. Carvin took his BMA in Music Composition from the University of Oklahoma in 1988, where he studied Composition under the great Michael Hennagin and Early Music under Dr. Eugene Enrico. His post-graduate studies have included classes in orchestration under Emmy® Award Winner Thom Sharp and master classes with the great opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Inspired by the movie scores of Bernard Herrman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, Carvin flew to Hollywood the week after his graduation to compose music for film. In the years of struggle before his first break, Carvin worked on his unreleased opera "The Dream King," producing workshop performances and recordings. In 1997, Carvin began producing albums for Oglio Records, a label dedicated to preserving the music of the '70s and '80s. Carvin was a contributing writer for Oglio's "Sex-O-Rama" series that included '70s-style funk with wah-wah guitar grooves and too much bass. His production of "Porno-Style-Grooves" was so convincing that even his own mother believed that he was wri

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In Elven Lands - The Fellowship

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Sex-O-Rama: Music from Classic Adult Films

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Hamsa

International Affairs Inc.

The Funhouse Waltz and Other Dark Delights

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Sex-O-Rama, Music from Classic Adult Films

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In Elven Lands / The Fellowshi

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In Elven Lands / The Fellowship

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Sex-O-Rama, Vol. 2, Music from Classic Adult Films

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Sex-O-Rama, Vol. 2

F*CK

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In Elven Lands The Fellowship

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