
Ivor Novello award winning duo Joe Henson and Alexis Smith began collaborating in 2005 when they co-produced an album for Joe’s band Seventhsun. After realising they had a similar approach to life and wildly divergent musical tastes, they formed a creative partnership that quickly encompassed songwriting, production, and composition.
The duo have worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry as well as being A-list composers for video games. 2014 saw the release of hit survival horror title Alien: Isolation, and they followed this up with 2017’s Horizon: Zero Dawn, the Playstation 4’s biggest selling new IP to date, and then Ubisoft Québec’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
The Flight’s television projects include the BAFTA nominated BBC documentary series Drugsland, and Kids on the Edge, produced for Channel 4 by Century Films.
Credits
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey | Ubisoft Quebec | *Ivor Novello Nomination 2019: Best Original Game Score* |
Horizon: Zero Dawn | Guerrilla Games/ Sony | *Ivor Novello Award 2018: Best Original Game Score* *BAFTA Games Awards Nomination 2018: Best Music*, *Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2017: Best Original Score in a Video Game*, *Dutch Game Awards 2017: Best Music and Audio* |
Alien: Isolation | SEGA/Creative Assembly | *BAFTA Games Awards Nomination 2015: Best Music* |
Little Big Planet 3 | Sony Computer Entertainment Europe | |
Assassin’s Creed Iv: Black Flag Multiplayer | Ubisoft |
Drugsland | BBC One |
Kids on the Edge | Channel 4 |
No Man Left Behind | National Geographic |
Ripper Street | ITV (Additional Music) |
Monroe | ITV (Additional Music) |
The Great American Manhunt | National Geographic |
Horizon: A Decade Of The Human Genome | BBC2 |
Storyville: Cage Fighting Women | BBC4 |
The Long Way Round | Elixir films/Sky Travel (Additional Music) |
A Few Best Men | Quickfire Films (Additional Production) |
Tormented | BBC Films (Additional Music) |
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Disney (Music programming) |
The Secret Of Moonacre | Forgan-Smith Ent (Song producer/music programming) |
Severance | Qwerty Films (Music programming) |
Hotel Rwanda | Lions Gate/United Artists (Music programming) |
Moulin Rouge | 20th Century Fox (Music programming) |
Eye Of The Beholder | Ambridge Film (Music programming) |
Adidas: The Adidas Messi Collection | Adidas/Iris Worldwide |
Adidas: Adidas Predator | Adidas/Iris Worldwide |
Honda: Legend | Honda/Pretzel Films |
BMW: 3 Series Touring | BMW/Radical Media |
Alex Maxwell ‘Signs’ EP | Hollywood Records (production/songwriting) |
The Flight: ‘Sarah’ EP | Apologetic Recordings |
Alex Maxwell ‘Drive’ EP | Hollywood Records (production/songwriting) |
The Flight: ‘Sinner Inside’ EP | Apologetic Recordings |
Say Lou Lou: ‘Fool Of Me’ | Columbia (songwriting) |
The Flight: ‘Hangman’ EP | Apologetic Recordings |
Skye: ‘Featherlight’ | PIAS (songwriting) |
Lana Del Rey : ‘Kinda Out Of Luck’ ‘You Can Be The Boss’ | Interscope (production/songwriting) |
The Penelopes: ‘Never Live Another Yesterday’ Album | Far East (production) |
Kami Thompson: ‘The Bad Marriage’ EP (production) | |
Skye:’Keeping Secrets’ album (production/songwriting) | |
Empire Of The Sun: ‘Walking On A Dream’ radio mix | Virgin (Additional Production) |
Zero dB: ‘Bongos Beats: ‘Basslines’ Remix | Ninja Tune (additional production/remix) |
The Cinematic Orchestra: ‘To Build A Home’ radio mix | Ninja Tune (additional production/remix) |
Coldcut: ‘Walk A Mile In My Shoes’ radio mix | Ninja Tune (additional production/remix) |
Elbow: Various tracks from ‘Leaders Of The Free World’ LP | V2 (programming) |
David Gray: Various tracks from ‘Life In Slow Motion’ album | V2 (programming) |
Rufus Wainwright: Various tracks from ‘Want Two’ album | Dreamworks (programming) |
Bebel Gilberto: Various tracks from ‘Bebel Gilberto’ album | EastWest (programming) |
Rufus Wainwright: Various tracks from ‘Want One’ album | Dreamworks (programming) |
Perry Farrell: Various tracks from ‘Song Yet To Be Sung’ | Virgin (programming) |
Bjork: Various tracks from ‘Vespertine’ album | One Little Indian (programming) |
Moulin Rouge: Tracks from ‘Moulin Rouge’ 1+2 | Polydor (production /programming) |
David Bowie: ‘Seven’ and ‘Survive’ single versions | Columbia (programming) |
David Gray: Various tracks from ‘White Ladder’ album | Atlantic (programming) |
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The Flight score the first look trailer for new Warner Bros. Game ‘Gotham Knights’
The Flight have scored the first look trailer for ‘Gotham Knights’, an upcoming action role-playing video game based on the DC Comics character Batman and

Second Consecutive Ivor Nomination for The Flight!!
The Flight (Joe Henson & Alexis Smith) have just received their second consecutive Ivor Novello Award nomination – winning in 2018 for their score to Sony

Ivor Novello Nominations – COOL Clients Nominated in Film, TV and Game
Dominik Scherrer – Best Original TV Soundtrack (Requiem) Daniel Pemberton – Best Original Film Score (Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse) The Flight – Best Original Video

Assassins Creed Odyssey out today! Music by The Flight
Ivor Novello award-winning composing duo The Flight have completed scoring Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which is out today on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The

IVOR NOVELLOS – The Flight and Joris de Man Win Best Video Game Music!
The Flight (Joe Henson and Alexis Smith) and Joris de Man have taken home the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Video Game Score. Their

Five Cool Music Composer Clients Nominated for Ivors!!
The 2018 Ivor Nominations were announced today, with 5 of the 9 nominations in film, TV and game going to Cool Music composer clients. Best

The Flight score BBC One’s ‘Drugsland’
Watch episode 1 here Click here for more information about the series Music by The Flight

Playstation In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall featuring music by The Flight
For the first time ever, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform music from some of the most iconic Playstation games from the past 20 years, including

Official soundtrack to Horizon Zero Dawn released today!
Joris de Man, The Flight and Niels van der Leest’s soundtrack to the PS4 game Horizon Zero Dawn officially released today and can be heard on Spotify.

The Flight score new Channel 4 series about children’s mental health
Joe Henson and Alexis Smith (The Flight) have just finished scoring a Channel 4 documentary series that explores children’s minds and goes behind the scenes at