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Vik Sharma is an English film and television composer best known for his soundtracks to the TV series An Idiot Abroad , The Moaning of Life , and Hello Ladies . He composed the original score for the film Fighting with My Family , [1] written and directed by Stephen Merchant. [2] Sharma worked with Blur's guitarist and founder member Graham Coxon along with Jason Cooper of The Cure to create a 'quintessentially British' soundtrack for the film. [3] In July 2021 he released Listen Without Listening, a binaural ambient album, incorporating sounds of nature.
In 1997, Sharma joined Asian Underground collective Joi, [4] contributing electric guitar and bass on their 1999 album, One and One is One, [5] released on Peter Gabriel's Real World Records. [6]
From 2010, Sharma composed the soundtrack for three series of the television programme, An Idiot Abroad , which featured Karl Pilkington, Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais, and a spin-off series, The Moaning of Life . Both shows engendered a cult following. [7] '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'. [8]
In 2013 and 2014, Sharma composed the music for Hello Ladies , an American series and feature film created by Stephen Merchant for the network HBO. The soundtrack references the blue-eyed soul of the 1970s and 1980s. [9]
Sharma collaborated with Merchant again, as he wrote an original score for Merchant's Fighting with My Family , described as "a movie that puts your heart in a headlock." [10] The story centres around a real-life family of professional wrestlers, [11] with Florence Pugh starring as WWE professional wrestler Paige and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as himself. [12]
Sharma provided the soundtrack for the International Emmy award-winning comedy Hoff the Record , [13] starring the actor David Hasselhof as himself. [14]
Sharma has previously composed incidental and title music for Channel 4 documentary series The Undateables , [15] Mary Queen of Frocks (presented by Mary Portas), The World's... and Me, Bleach, Nip, Tuck : The White Beauty Myth, What's Killing Darcus Howe?, The Family: Teen Stories and a short starring Christopher Eccleston entitled The Happiness Salesman. [16]
Sharma was a contributor to The Steve Show, Stephen Merchant's Sunday afternoon BBC Radio 6 Music radio show. [17]
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.[ non-primary source needed ]
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