Paul Brill

Emerging at the dawn of the 2000s as an earnest, earthy singer/songwriter, Paul Brill cultivated a successful career as a film and television composer. Halve the Light, his 2002 debut, helped him carve out a cult within Americana audiences, but by 2006 he was finding steady work as a composer, first gaining attention for his work on 2006's The Trials of Darryl Hunt and 2007's The Devil Came on Horseback, earning Emmy nominations for both scores; he'd earn another Emmy nod for National Geographic's Full Battle Rattle in 2008. He worked with U2 on a string arrangement for their ...