Records
Noah Elsewhere — EP
A finished EP — written, produced and mixed. Four songs, hook-led and built around one voice, open for a solo artist to take.
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Producer · Songwriter · Composer
Songs with
somewhere in them.
Commercial pop and R&B, written cinematically — hooks up front, rhythm borrowed from everywhere.
Records
Heiress EP · Noah Elsewhere · Singles
Sync & Licensing
Cue-ready · One signature, no third party
Film & Series
Rare Kind — directed and scored · Best Documentary, South Film & Arts Academy Festival
Written & produced by HAKEZE
HEIRESS
A complete girl-group record in today's commercial pop lane, written and produced end to end — five songs, a full world built before anyone was cast. No act attached, which is the opportunity: if you're building a group, or already have one, this is the work I'd bring to it.
Listen
Written and produced start to finish — lyric, melody, arrangement, mix. Anything here can be cut by your artist as it stands, or written from scratch to fit them. The Heiress EP plays in its own section above.
Selected work
DEMOS & COMMISSIONS
SINGULARITY
Single
Singularity
Noah Elsewhere with Heiress — two worlds on one record, and the EP's closer.
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Instrumental composition
A Tilted Crown
Composed, arranged and produced by Earl Cole. Full composition, 3:18.
Directed & scored
Rare Kind
Directed and scored the award-winning documentary, now held in the permanent archival record of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Music written to carry the story rather than steer it.
ROLEComposer · Producer · Writer · Director
AWARDSFestival wins and selections — full list
ARCHIVEMargaret Herrick Library & Film Archive, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
CREDITDirector · Composer · Producer — original compositions, scored to picture
Anywhere.
Dance records and slow ones. Songs for a full room and songs for a quiet one.
Commercial pop is the target — hooks, structure, something you can sing back on one listen. Jazz harmony and classical form are how it gets there, and why it should still work in ten years.
Ideas can arrive in pieces. The skill is hearing which ones belong to the same thing — the sound, the look, the room it lives in — and getting there fast enough that it still feels found.
Studio
HAKEZE is Earl Cole — a producer, songwriter and composer in Los Angeles, working in the commercial and cinematic pop lanes.
The foundation is jazz and classical, with rock, soul and hip-hop in the hands. Above it, the way the best pop and R&B records get built — and rhythm pulled in from wherever the song wants it, any era, fused into the record rather than quoted on top of it.
The subject is always human — the small admissions people don't usually make out loud, scored like they matter.
PLAYSPiano · Sax · Violin · Ukulele · Percussion
BASEDLos Angeles
REPRESENTATIONDirect
The room
Keys first, then the arrangement is built around what was played.
Most of the work is deciding what not to keep. Space is doing something — a part that isn’t holding weight comes out, however good it sounded going in.
Vocals here are demo performances — the writing, production, arrangement and mix are finished. Stems are on hand, and any song can be re-cut with your artist.
DELIVERSStems · Project files · Alt mixes · Instrumental · TV mix
CLEARANCEWriter and master held in-house — one-stop on original compositions
METHOD
Every HAKEZE song begins with original human songwriting, composition, performance, and production. AI-assisted tools are selectively used in the modern production process — including vocal realization, arrangement, and sound exploration — to reimagine and refine these original works. Every idea, melody, lyric, and creative decision originates with the artist; technology simply helps bring the vision to life.
OudLearned, not sampled
Keys · MPCLos Angeles
What I do, and who for
01
Songwriting
Hooks and lyrics written in the room — the melody that survives the drive home. Written for a specific voice, in an artist's style or building the sound they don't have yet, including songs for picture.
FOR Artists & A&R · Writing rooms
02
Arranging
Reharmonizing, restructuring, building the parts around a vocal — gospel, jazz and classical training put to a pop song. Charts on paper when there are players.
FOR Artists · Other producers
03
Production
Performed at the keys, then programmed and arranged. Global drums, synthesis, and a mix that moves air. Blank page to finished master, one point of contact for the whole record.
FOR Artists & A&R
04
Score & sound identity
Film, series and campaigns. Classical form underneath, a pop ear on top.
FOR Directors · Agencies
05
Sync & licensing
Placement for film, series, trailers and campaigns — original compositions, cleared in-house. Instrumentals, TV mixes and cut-downs on hand.
FOR Music supervisors · Publishers
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Selects on DISCO
Every song here can be licensed with one signature and no third party to wait on.
AFFILIATIONASCAP writer and publisher · Society of Composers & Lyricists
PUBLISHINGKaialani Music Publishing — self-administered
RIGHTSCleared, one-stop on original catalogue — writer and master controlled in-house. Additional material available privately.
CATALOGUERegistered ASCAP works · Selects on DISCO
TRAININGUCLA Extension film scoring · Songwriters Sync MasterCamp · Jazz orchestra and symphonic band — violin, saxophone, ukulele · Reads and writes notation
REPRESENTATIONDirect — deals negotiated in-house
OPEN TOPublishing · Artist cuts · Co-writes · Production
Let's make something people keep.
studio@hakeze.com
What I'm looking for is a record to build — an artist project or a picture — with a publisher or label behind it. Co-writes with exceptional writers and producers, always. Email is the way in. Every message gets read, and answered quickly.
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