Daniel Thomas Freeman

Daniel Thomas Freeman is an experimental musician, filmmaker, and engineer based in London. Throughout the 2000s, he was a member of Rameses III, a trio whose slow-moving dronescapes blurred the lines between ambient, folk, and psychedelia. After the group disbanded in 2010, he began releasing music on his own, starting with the dark, atmospheric The Beauty of Doubting Yourself in 2011. He then became active as a composer of soundtracks, including Catch Me Daddy (2015) and his own short film The Day After (2022). Freeman engineered recordings by neofolk and industrial acts Fire + Ice, Sol Invictus, and Primordia during the early 1990s. He then played in Croydon-based punk band Toast, who released a handful of 7" EPs and a discography CD on Crackle! Records and Damaged Goods. He briefly recorded menacing drum'n'bass tracks such as Descending Angel, and released a 12" ("Low Slung") on techstep label Nu Black in 1999. He formed Rameses III with two of his former bandmates, Spencer Grady and Stephen Lewis, around the beginning of the century. The group released several limited CD-Rs and EPs, as well as albums on Type and Important Records, which received critical acclaim. After their final album, 2009's I Could Not Love You More, Rameses III disbanded. Grady and Lewis formed Padang Food Tigers and continued in a similar drone-folk direction, while Freeman set out on his own. The Beauty of Doubting Yourself, a set of drone compositions about depression and redemption, was released by Home Normal in 2011. Freeman then composed music for several short films, as well as the 2015 feature Catch Me Daddy. Its soundtrack, created with Matthew Watson, was released by Important. In 2016, Freeman released The Infinite and the Unknowable, an instrumental album issued with a 48-page book containing poetry and photography. It was the first release on Freeman's Blink in the Endless imprint, which also digitally offered deluxe editions of several Rameses III recordings and previously unissued material by Rameses III and Descending Angel. Freeman released his soundtracks for the short film The Life Tree and an experimental feature, The Silence After Life, in 2020. He started work on a 13-minute experimental film, The Day After, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022. A full 39-minute version of the film's soundtrack was released in July.
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