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Vol. 6 • Issue 12
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Local musicians nominated for Emmy award Nelson’s Robert Neufeld and the Slocan Valley’s Adham Shaikh are up for the award for Outstanding Music and Sound for a television score they wrote for the National Geographic series Untamed Americas.
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wo local composers had their talents recognized through a high profile nomination — an Emmy. Robert Neufeld of Nelson and Adham Shaikh of the Slocan Valley were nominated for Outstanding Music and Sound for their work on the National Geographic project Untamed Americas. The four-part series explores the Americas giving people an up-close look into great wildlife spectacles of the desert, mountains, forests and the coasts. Working from their respective studios in the West Kootenay, Neufeld and Shaikh provided the backdrop of music for the vivid images of the dramatic series narrated by actor Josh Brolin. “It is nice to be recognized,” said Neufeld of the nomination coming at the end of a challeng-
“We are in the little Kootenays working away. You don’t necessarily think that anyone’s going to remember or notice.” Adham Shaikh
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ing project that consumed them for six months. Days went 14 to 16 hours seven days a week. Both Neufeld and Shaikh found the assignment trying at times with a great deal of input into creative decisions coming from National Geographic, said Neufeld. “Adham and I battled it through,” he said. “We had to work really hard to get through the different opinions about what people thought the score should be.”
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Between Neufeld and Shaikh, there was always one of them unsure they’d see the project through. Said Shaikh, “Luckily one of us would talk the other back into it. We managed to reaffirm each other.” Having worked with National Geographic before, Neufeld knew to hang in there, that a challenge wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. “We may come out smelling like roses in the end,” he told Shaikh who reminded Neufeld of that statement when nominations came out mid-July. “We felt like we’d been vindicated a bit because it had been a bit of a rough ride,” said Neufeld. Shaikh also a record producer and sound designer was surprised at the nomination “given that here we are in the little Kootenays working away. You don’t necessarily think that anyone’s going to remember or notice.” At the onset, Neufeld noticed
Shaikh. Even though he didn’t have the breadth of experience of other artists suggested by National Geographic, Neufeld approached him to work on this project because he “liked Adham’s music.” “I just had a feeling that we’d make a good team,” he said. And they did. “It turned out we made a great team,” said Neufeld. “We’re both real hard workers and Adham is incredibly self disciplined and incredibly determined not to mention talented.” For Shaikh, this was an amazing project to work on with Neufeld, a “super talented guy.” “We worked really well together,” said Shaikh. “I found him just an awesome co-creative partner and we seem to have a great language back and forth Story continues to ‘Second’ on Page 4
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