Vik Sharma is an English film and television composer best known for his soundtracks to the TV series ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He composed the original score for the film ''

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'', written and directed by

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. Sharma worked with Blur's guitarist and founder member

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along with

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to create a 'quintessentially British' soundtrack for the film. In July 2021 he released ''Listen Without Listening'', a binaural ambient album, incorporating sounds of nature.

Career

In 1997, Sharma joined

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collective Joi, contributing electric guitar and bass on their 1999 album, ''One and One is One'', released on Peter Gabriel's

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. From 2010, Sharma composed the soundtrack for three series of the television programme, ''

'', which featured

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and

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, and a spin-off series, ''

''. Both shows engendered a cult following. 'Constantly hilarious... part travelogue, part social experiment, part practical joke, 'An Idiot Abroad' is easily the best thing you'll ever see on a Saturday night for seven weeks'. In 2013 and 2014, Sharma composed the music for ''

'', an American series and feature film created by Stephen Merchant for the network

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. The soundtrack references the

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of the 1970s and 1980s. Sharma collaborated with Merchant again, as he wrote an original score for Merchant's ''

'', described as "a movie that puts your heart in a headlock." The story centres around a real-life family of professional wrestlers, with

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starring as WWE professional wrestler Paige and

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as himself. Sharma provided the soundtrack for the International Emmy award-winning comedy ''

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'', starring the actor

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as himself. Sharma has previously composed incidental and title music for

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documentary series '' The Undateables'', Mary Queen of Frocks (presented by

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), ''The World's... and Me'','' Bleach, Nip, Tuck : The White Beauty Myth'', ''What's Killing

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?'', ''The Family: Teen Stories'' and a short starring

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entitled ''The Happiness Salesman''. Sharma was a contributor to ''The Steve Show'', Stephen Merchant's Sunday afternoon

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radio show. The album ''Listen Without Listening'' was released in 2021, is an ambient exploration into the perception and representation of space and place- experimenting with the enhancement of listener mood using binaural recordings of sounds of nature.

References

External links

Vik Sharma
at the

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Vik Sharma
on

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