If you're interested in learning about Ego Plum's film & television scoring work, visit: musicformovingpictures.com COMPOSER & ARTIST EGO PLUM was born Ernesto Guerrero and named after one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. EGO is also the grandson of the Russian revolutionary leader, Leon Trotsky who was assassinated in Mexico in 1940. In 1994, a teenaged Ernesto adopted the senseless moniker, EGO PLUM, in a moment of Dadaist inspiration and has since legally taken the name. With the same revolutionary spirit of his grandfather and birth-given namesake, Ego has waged a D.I.Y. war against the modern conventions of popular music utilizing an arsenal of unconventional influences: The cartoon jazz and spastic stop & go arrangements of RAYMOND SCOTT and CARL STALLING, the ground-breaking New Wave of OINGO BOINGO, DEVO, & B-52'S, the haunting film scores of ANGELO BADALAMENTI, BERNARD HERMMANN, & DANNY ELFMAN, and the melodic pop sensibilities of XTC, the BEATLES and BEACH BOYS. Through several critically-acclaimed CD releases on his own imprint, and as musical director of his own 10-piece group (THE EBOLA MUSIC ORCHESTRA), EGO PLUM has continued to push the boundaries of music by creating cinematic compositions with a carnival-esque & surrealist sensibility that are simultaneously unclassifiable and of the pop stratum. BIG TAKEOVER MAGAZINE described his latest album with the Ebola Music Orchestra to be "as poignant as it is absurd," and AMPLIFIER MAGAZINE claimed, "there is no place in a record store where it fits." "Cinema must serve as a counterbalance to the attraction of alcohol and religion. The movie theater must replace the tavern and church." -Leon Trotsky In early 2000, EGO PLUM began to parlay his acclaim as a recording artist into a burgeoning career as a film composer. Writing music for several student films at first, then short films, fashion shows, and finally an independent feature in 2004, EGO was able to hone his compositional skills and realize his passion for cinema and it's music. 2008 will find EGO PLUM leaving the confines of the underground music scene and bringing his unorthodox sound to the most popular children's entertainment brand on the planet: NICKELODEON. Ego is composing the musical score for Nickelodeon's newest animated series,: the strange & hilariously bleak "MAKING FIENDS," which will debut in 2008. Nickelodeon has the potential to expose EGO PLUM's music to over 287 million households worldwide.