Russ Landau

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Russell Landau is a composer of film and television scores and themes including Survivor and Fear Factor. After completing university, Russ Landau moved to New York City, where he worked as a session musician and joined the Paul Winter Consort as their bassist. For more than a decade he traveled the world as a bassist, and as a producer of more than ten albums by the group helping Winter earn a Grammy. He went on to produce recordings for many other artists, ranging from blues rocker South Side Johnny to Irish vocalist Nóirín Ní Riain. Working in his Greenwich Village studio, he scored numerous projects including a short HBO film called Cat and Mousse, which was nominated for the Grand Prize in Short Films at the Cannes Film Festival. Later, he moved to Los Angeles, California to focus on film and television scoring. His first regular episodic scoring assignment was Steven Spielberg's SeaQuest DSV. He was then hired to write the opening theme and score to SeaQuest 2032, which led to his first Emmy nomination. Subsequently, Landau began working on such television projects as the CBS series Moloney, FOX's Fire Co. 132, CBS's Four Corners and the USA Network series The Net, before landing Survivor. As a result of signing on with Survivor, another major milestone in Landau's career came with his second Emmy nomination for its theme, "Ancient Voices," in 2001. Russ Landau has themed and scored many prime time series including Eco Challenge for USA, Fear Factor (1, 2, 3 and 4)

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The Net (Music from the TV Series)

Survivor

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Ancient Voices - The Survivor Themes (Soundtrack from the TV Show)

Ancient Voices - The Survivor Themes

Survivor 13 - Cook Islands

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Survivor 16: Micronesia (Music from the TV Series)

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Ancient Voices All Stars - Single

Survivor Palau - The Album

Survivor Guatemala - the Album

Survivor 15 - China (Music from the TV Series)

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JABKI.COM

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Ancient Voices - Survivor 14 (Fiji) - Single

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