Black Cloud Productions
About Us

Black Cloud Productions is a unique publishing company that brings together a collaboration of many talented composers, musicians, songwriters and producers to offer a diverse library of quality pre-cleared music for film, TV, advertising & software.  With over 30 years of combined experience in the music industry, Zac Cataldo & Zac McIntyre are growing Black Cloud Productions into a quality source for music. 



Zac Cataldo was raised on The Beatles and Barry Manilow although he has forgiven his parents for the latter. At fourteen he formed Straight Edge, a ten-piece Boston rock band (that’s 4 girl backup singers and a cello) and played local clubs like the Rat and the Channel (gone but not forgotten). As the Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist, Zac figured out how to keep beer bottle throwing to a minimum. As the band’s Babysitter/Manager he learned the ins and outs of the local music scene, and could be seen pawning tickets in Kenmore Square to a show (back then you paid to play). To put himself through college, Zac worked as a mobile and radio DJ, in the days when you needed a van to lug around your “record collection”.

Truthfully, Zac started playing in a band when he was thirteen that recorded in his Math teacher’s 8-track basement studio. Although he’d like to forget about most of the music, it was this eye-opening experience that sparked his interest to become a sound engineer. At 15, Zac began interning at Boston’s 24 track studios like Newbury Sound and Pyramid, working with producers like Drew Townson and WBCN’s Lisa Traxler. Zac was highly sought after and worked with 80’s bands like The Next, Bang, and Anastasia Screamed because he would gladly run off to the corner store for coffee and guitar strings (or dirty magazines for a certain bassist who will go nameless).

In the early 90’s, Zac relocated to L.A. (why – he still can’t tell you) and returned with memories of egocentric music executives, corporate power lunches, and earthquakes. Upon his return in the mid 90’s, Zac started Night Train Studios, a digital recording studio, when digital was still a bad word. Today, Night Train Studios is a busy place where musicians from heavy metal act Silencio to jazz diva Barbara Dolan go to record with Zac at the helm.

Zac's credits include: the voice and music behind Disney's High School Musical and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody book series. The music & voice of the audio books Who Were The Beatles, Who Was William Shakespeare, Who Was Claude Monet. The music for "The Zack Files" by Dan Greenberg audio book series. The music for the Newbery Award winning book "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman. The music for the book "Baby" by Patricia MacLachlan. The music for the Scholastic book series "Rainbow Magic" by Daisy Meadows. The music & voice for the audio book "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner.

Zac has Produced the Barbara Dolan Group, Baza, Have At It, Marmalading, Jason Fickel, Francesca Reggio & Blue Shift, Paul V, Stilburnin', Slap That Cat, The Lascivious Trio, Asley Jordan, Wastleand Within, Fever, Workin' Stiffs, The Pass, Montgomery Clift, Insigniya, The Cranks, Ramble On, Patrick McKenna, Ben Cesare, Shaun Merrill, Deep C, Scott Dockendorff, Booty Vortex, Sunshine Riot, The Heat Moon, Acoustic Curve, Meet The Day, Too Many Drivers, Steve LaBonte, Victoria Dehesa, Mirichle, Katie Sullivan, RTP Racer, The Dij, Sidpa Bardo, Chiemi, Dread Rocks, Phylo Ray, Leslie Hitelman, Depths of Underground, P.J. Shapiro, Lisa Locke, Logan Piercey, Errata, Gardy Gonzalez, The Zac Mac Band, Sounder, Offensive Jill, Interfere, Aontaigh, 3rd Man Factor, Good Night Sheffield, Run 4 Cover, Levity, Red Box Panic, Jason Baron, Jeff Wolfsberg, Paul Hamilton & Operation Guillotine, just to name a few.
 
 
   
 

Zac McIntyre grew up on a steady diet of classic 70s rock and 90s alternative. His parents often played The Rolling Stones, Boston, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, ACDC and Dire Straits. A basketball player from a young age, Zac would listen to the first Cars album on his father's 8-track, while shooting 100 free throws each day in the yard. This led to a high free throw percentage and pop sensibility.

At the age of 10, a rusty old piano appeared in the house and Zac immediately began pounding away on it. His mother told him he had to either start taking lessons or stop making a racket. He chose the former and soon began writing music on the piano. It wasn't until his Senior year in college that he would pick up the guitar and singing. In 2008, Zac was a winner in the Great American Songwriting Contest with his song "Laughing at Myself" and is currently the author of over 500 pieces of music, mostly unpublished. At a certain point, he thought it was a good idea to start a publishing company to remedy that situation. Zac does talent scouting, scoring and music production for BCP. His band, Zac Mac Band (www.zacmacband.com),which performs all throughout the northeast (Hard Rock Cafe, Middle East, Johnny D's, Precinct, to name a few) is also represented by the company. They are currently hard at work on their follow up to their critically acclaimed debut cd, "Don't Look Down."

In addition to performing to sold out shows in the Boston area, Zac has scored music for such projects as film documentary "Sea Change" by NPR's Dan Grossman, 2012 Warner Bros. feature film "Lady of the Dark", 2009 Big 10 Network documentary film "First Wave", and several upcoming MechaSoftware video games. At 6'10", he is also one of the tallest musicians ever to grace the stage. When he's not playing or publishing music, Zac enjoys playing basketball and cheering on his beloved Red Sox.



Brent's first venture into the world of music started when he was 9 years old and took up the alto saxophone in the middle school concert band. He would continue with that until the end of middle school, when he decided that saxophone was not the instrument for him. At age 13, Brent and some buddies from school decided to start a rock band. He asked his mother very nicely, and she bought him his first bass guitar (a Washburn XB -100, that he still owns and plays to this day). He went to his local book store, bought a couple "teach yourself" bass guitar manuals and learned how to play. During this time, Brent realised he had the ability to play songs by ear and tried to master every song he could. Though his band with his friends inevitably fizzled out, Brent continued playing music on his on time, and would pick up the electric guitar at age 15 to further challenge himself musically (and to learn how to play awesome solos to show off). In 2003 Brent started another band with some other friends from high school. That band would become Taste of Chains, which still exists to this day and is making music and play shows (www.tasteofchains.com). In this time he would really hone his guitar playing skills, and would develop as a songwriter. He learned what structures work for songs, and he learned how to collaborate with other musicians. In 2005 when the band really started to get off the ground, Brent was exposed for the first time to the art of sound engineering. Taste of Chain's Bassist, (now Lead Vocalist/Bassist) Mike Lachance's dad did some engineering as a hobby and was willing to come down to the bands practice space to lay down some tracks that would become the bands first demo. This experience opened Brent's eyes to a whole new world of music. It wasn't long after that Brent decided to pursue this as his future career. Brent studied at New England Tech for Video/Radio Production where he first started developing his skills as an engineer. He also did some experimental recording on his own time with Taste of Chains band mate Dan Newman. Through trial and error he learned what work in recording and what didn't (in some cases the lessons were learned more painfully than others). In 2009 Brent purchased his own recording equipment and a laptop installed with Cubase Studio 5 and began his own mobile recording studio called Last Post Records. He would record and produce all his bands releases, and has also worked with such bands as Words to Live By, Suicide Marys, Evil Autumn, Mark the Way, and Hammer n' Harmony. In late 2010, Brent started working on a degree from the Audio Institute of America to further expand his knowledge of the recording arts. Brent is now a Producer/Talent Scout for BCP, where he continues to develop as a producer and is expanding into new territories of the music industry.

 



Eric Daubney is a composer, producer and talent scout for BCP.  He is the newest addition to the BCP family and is currently finishing his last year at the University of New Haven, pursuing a Music Production & Business degree.  Eric is a multi-talented musician/songwriter.  He plays bass, guitar and sings.  He's self produced and released two albums and has twice won the track of the day on Garageband.com.  In addtion to his solo career, Eric has composed scores for tv and film along with engineering other bands.  

Music Licensing

If you are a Music Supervisor, Director or Producer looking for music for your next project, please contact us.  All the music in our library is pre-cleared so licensing is quick, easy and affordable. For all licensing requests email zac@blackcloudproductions.com or fill out the form below:

Licensing Request Form