Devilishly Good Productions is a music production company based in Los Angeles, providing original music for film, television and advertising, known for the ground breaking work of its creative driving force, record producer and composer, The Angel.
The Angel launched her career as a record producer and recording artist in the nineties after signing with Los Angeles label, Delicious Vinyl (The Pharcyde, Tone Loc, The Brand New Heavies). She also brought her signature sound to remixes and record productions for Bay Area, Grammy nominee Mystic, Slimkid3, The Pharcyde, Michael Franti’s Spearhead and Donald Byrd among others. And in 2023, The Angel controls the rights to her entire catalogue of master recordings and publishing, now available for one stop licensing via her own record label Supa Crucial Recordings and publishing company Supa Crucial Music.
The Angel quickly broke out of the confines of the song format and into film composing with the genre defining scores for the features, BOILER ROOM (Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel) and KiDULTHOOD (Noel Clarke, Aml Ameen), and later marked television milestones for a female composer, scoring the Fox primetime FBI drama, STANDOFF (Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt), TNT’s Jada Pinkett Smith medical drama series, HAWTHORNE and Ava DuVernay’s CBS DOJ themed pilot, FOR JUSTICE among others.
The Angel has scored and produced several projects including the feature documentary, BORN TO LEAD: THE SAL AUNESE STORY (directed by Lara Slife) as well as award winning short films, BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR (directed by Lidiya Korotko) and recently completed, CONFESSIONS (a series proof-of-concept written, directed and produced by Evette Vargas) on the festival circuit in 2023. The Angel’s score for short film THE KILL FOOR for director Carlos Avila (Latino Public Broadcasting) and the TV movie, HEIST 88 for director Menhaj Huda (Bassett/Vance and Paramount) have just been completed. See The Angel’s full credits here IMDb.
Devilishly Good Productions has also expanded into development with a number of drama projects for film and TV in the works.
For my interview with Gemma Dempsey for the "Composers On Film" podcast, it was a real pleasure to dig into some of my all time favorite tracks by Isaac Hayes, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Public Enemy, composer Jeremy Sams and Milton Nascimento, as well as an eclectic sampling of my film and TV score....
The Angel joined director, Lidiya Korotko and the female led team, of "Bombs Bursting In Air", as both a producer and composer....
The Neighbor In The Window, is the fourth project that composer The Angel and director Menhaj Huda have worked on together....
Working on N.I. with director Sallyanne (Sal) Massimini, has been another wonderful opportunity for Angel to support a woman director....
The documentary, "Born To Lead: The Sal Aunese Story, is co-produced and scored by The Angel....
Director AVA DUVERNAY hired The Angel to score the still topical CBS pilot, “For Justice”, based on James Patterson's novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number" and adapted by EP Rene Balcer. Executive produced by Leopoldo Gout and Bill Robinson for James Patterson Entertainment, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh for Tribeca Productions.... ...
Director, Skeet Ulrich, had a very specific vision for this short, written by Amelia Jackson-Gray. Through her film score, Angel evokes a sense of foreboding, an underlying uneasiness against the innocence and outer beauty of a young girl's privileged world....
Music by The Angel accompanies the short documentary for the new TED theater constructed in under a week!...
Produced by and starring Skeet Ulrich and Amelia Jackson-Gray, this stylized psychological thriller is directed photographer Francis Dreis with score by The Angel....
"Tales of Masked Men" screening at Franklin D. Roosevelt Park, Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 8pm....
A call from executive producer, Idris Elba, led to The Angel scoring this fresh take on UK teen horror from first time director, Arjun Rose for his feature, "Demons Never Die."...
Written and directed by Menhaj Huda, with original score by The Angel, "Everywhere And Nowhere" is now released on DVD....
The Angel scored Season 2 of the Jada Pinkett Smith TV show, "HawthoRNe."...
Stylish, gripping and electric-paced entertainment from The Wire's Idris Elba; Demons Never Die combines the hottest new talent including Tulisa (XFactor), Shanika Warren-Markland (4.3.2.1), Femi Oyeniran (Anuvahood) and Arnie Oceng (Adulthood), with score by The Angel, along with the year's coolest soundtrack of Chase and Status, Rizzle Kicks, Wretch 32, Jessie J and more."...
Trailer for "Tales of Masked Men" . And for more clips from the film with score by The Angel, visit the "Tales of Masked Men" website....
Director, Carlos Avila's documentary, "Tales of Masked Men" premiered on Latino Public Broadcasting’s arts and culture series, VOCES ON PBS. We link to the official website rro more info....
"Everywhere And Nowhere" written and directed by Menhaj Huda, with original score by The Angel...
"'Til There Was You" was the first film that Angel had an opportunity to work on as a composer....
Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, the 1997 film starred Tupac, Tim Roth and Thandie Newton, and The Angel contributed additional music....
Director, Ben Younger's "Boiler Room," is the first feature film that The Angel scored in it's entirety....
2006 documentary, The Heart of The Game, features scored by The Angel, with narration by Ludacris. The film also includes the end title song by The Angel featuring Mystic, "Believe It."...
Released in 2006, KiDULTHOOD, directed by Menhaj Huda with original score by The Angel, was a major with young audiences....
"Gaia" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009. Conceived, written and directed by Jason Lehel, with lead actress, Emily Lape, shot into the Arizona desert with a score by The Angel....
The Angel scored "Bedrooms," for the film's three directors, Youssef Delara, Victor Teran, and Michael D. Olmos. ...
Angel wrote a blog post on her work scoring the Fox TV series, "Standoff", starring Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt. Read it here: "Standoff" Behind the Scenes - Life Imitating Art....
"WEST 10 LDN," a BBC3 drama from "KiDULTHOOD" director Menhaj Huda, was written by Noel Clarke (KiDULTHOOD), from the book "Society Within" by Courttia Newland, and with a score by The Angel....
The Angel scored the Lifetime movie "Racing for Time" starring Yaya DaCosta, Charles Dutton, Tiffany Haddish, and Aunjanue Ellis. The movie was directed by Charles Dutton....
The Angel toured the set of "Standoff" with series creator, Craig Silverstein. Pictured in the FBI offices featured in the series, Angel sits at the desk of "Matt Flannery," played by Ron Livingston. Craig sits at the desk of "Emily Lehman," played by Rosemarie DeWitt....
The New York theatrical premiere of "Let's Get Frank" was held on July 14, 2004. In attendance were (pictured l-r) Bart Everly (director), Angel (composer) and Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) at the Film Forum cinema....
This documentary, scored by The Angel and directed by Bart Everly, details the work of Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.)....
The Angel scored "Junkyard Saints," directed by Carlos Avila, for the PBS Independent Lens series....