
Harley Stewart is a musician, music producer, composer, and co-founder of Fight Night Records. Dividing his time between Guadalajara, Mexico, and Melbourne, Australia, he spends months in Mexico crafting cinematic compositions and filmic scores. When back in Melbourne, he tours with The Counterfeit, his twelve-piece Spaghetti Western ensemble. Harley is currently completing production on The Counterfeit’s debut album, Violent Night on the Prairie, the soundtrack to a film that will never exist.
On this episode Harley shares with us the origins of the Spaghetti Western genre and how it shaped film, music and culture, how cultural reinterpretation became creative innovation, how AI is changing the sound of music but can’t replace intuition, why creative intuition takes time and so much more.
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