Michael Kisur is awesome

I was very proud of singer-songwriter Michael Kisur last week.  Four of his songs were played on daytime television – on Friday his song "Sunshine" (written with collaborator Brad Hatfield) graced a beautiful outdoor Los Angeles-by-the-sea scene involving star-crossed teens Lily and Daniel in The Young and The Restless. His downtempo chillout songs  "Your Dirty Little Secret" and "Why" were winding through the hush-hush conversations at the Palace Restaurant on One Life to Live on Wednesday, and on Thursday his song "Peace" (in its instrumental form) was used in a beautiful overhead shot of Manhattan on One Life To Live as well.

It never fails to amaze me how this medium of television and film can be transformed by the right piece of music.  Not that one always knows instantly what the right kind of music is for a scene – it requires a lot of experimentation and hard work. That’s why I respect the music supervisors who spend so much time in windowless editing rooms auditioning piece after piece of music, cutting in and cutting out, then showing their producers what they’ve come up with. Many times one piece of music may be as good or effective as another piece in the scene, but one creates a slightly different mood and that’s the mood  the producer is going for, so it gets chosen.

It was great this week to see how seamlessly the song “Sunshine” fit into the Young and Restless scene on Friday. The song’s track has an undulating quality, almost like a series of slowly-growing waves, and when it played through the beach scene with waves gently crashing and seagulls gliding, I knew that there was truly some order in the universe!  Sometimes things just come together like that in this line of work.  Especially when Michael Kisur is the songwriter.

Because like one TV music executive called me to say the first time she heard a Michael Kisur song, “Who is he…he’s AWESOME!!” I couldn’t agree more.

If you’ve heard a song on tv or in film lately that you thought was great, please tell me about it. As you know, I’m all ears!

Comments

[Azeleyes]

I would really like to know the name of song and who sang it that played on September 30th when Mac were with JT in the tent. I really liked the words that I heard and would love to ear it. I am getting married soon and I am still looking for my first slow song with my new husband and that song sounded like a great one but I would need to ear it all so pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....help me find it. Thank you!!

[austin]

i' m looking for the song that played on august 17 towards the end when they were taking john off life support . i would like to know the name and artist of the song thanks

[RW]

you guys seem t know a lot about soap music.. can you tell me the name of the song that played at the end of the June 3rd episode of Y&R, when Glo hugs jack after he says she can come back to live at the poolhouse?

[Air Jordan]

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. Do you agree?