Welsh noir Hinterland back on BBC

Acclaimed Welsh detective series Hinterland is on BBC TV from Saturday 27th August 2016. It goes out at 9:30pm - see more at the BBC website. 

Described as "surely one of the loveliest soundtracks to grace a crime drama" by the Radio Times, the complete music for Hinterland is available to buy now on iTunes, Amazon or direct from the artist. 

Discover more about how John Hardy Music composed the music for Hinterland on their minisite, or create your own soundtrack for a scene from the show using specially created ingredients from the original score. 

Welsh noir hits home... and beyond

Welsh noir series Hinterland (Y Gwyll in Welsh) has been making waves across its homeland, throughout the UK on BBC 4 and internationally on Netflix.

As the second series is launched, composer John Hardy reflects on writing the music for series one:

"The creators and producers of the programme talk about Hinterland as a place that's in their mind and their imagination. It's kind of a fictitious place but you still have to make that, you have to populate it with believable characters and atmospheres to convince an audience. And we try to make music that helps to define what that place is. It's all very inspiring when it is that visually rich, when the pictures are that strong and the sense of lace and mood is that beautiful and that powerful, it really helps to come up with interesting ideas for the sound."