Symphonies for moments that will never return

 

Vladimir Cosma (1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor, and violinist; he studied music in Bucharest and in September 1962 emigrated to Paris, France with his family. There he continued his musical education at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under Nadia Boulanger's guidance as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur De Musique Et De Danse De Paris.

 

He started as the assistant of Michel Legrand. He has written the music for many well known French movies; he received two Césars for the best movie score, for "Diva" (1982) and "Le Bal" (1984), two 7 d'Or for the best music for television, as well as a number of prizes and awards in France and other countries.

 

Michel Bernholc (1941 - 2002) was a French pianist, arranger and composer; he arranged and conducted four Eurovision Song Contest entries between 1976 and 1995, including the winning 'Si la vie est cadeau' in 1983. Founder of Studio B. Side. 

 

Vladimir Cosma & Michel Bernholc - Musique Dramatique Et Nostalgique

Humming harmonies from the underworld

 

Riz Ortolani (1926 - 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, and orchestrator, predominantly of film scores. He scored over 200 films and television programs between 1955 and 2014, with a career spanning over fifty years; internationally, he is best known for his genre scores, notably his music for mondo, giallo, horror, and Spaghetti Western films.

 

His most famous composition is "More," which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. 

 

Riz Ortolani - Danza Macabra

Flying through the sonic spiral

 

Ron Geesin is a Scottish self-taught composer, performer, sound architect, writer, lecturer and designer, born December 17, 1943 in Stevenson, Ayrshire. He has lived in the south of England since joining a jazz band at 17. He was co-writer of Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother".

 

In 1990, Ron Geesin created his Tune Tube, a giant interactive tube in sound and light 'played' from the inside by individual's body-movements, which was a huge success at the Art Machine exhibition for "Glasgow 1990". 

 

He has composed music for innumerable films and TV programs; father of The Geesin Brothers , Dan Geesin, Fraser Geesin and Joe Geesin.

 

Ron Geesin - Electrosound

Waiting for dawn arrival

 

Andrzej Waldemar Korzyński (1940 - 2022) was a Polish composer whose work ranged from some of the biggest hits from the 1960's to the early nineties, a popular children's musical ("Akademia Pana Kleksa") and scores for some of the best Polish films of the second half of the 20th century, including Andrzej Wajda's (The Birch Wood, Man of Marble) and Andrzej Żuławski's (The Devil, Possession). 

Born in Warsaw, Korzyński graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in 1964; also he was a member of the Polish Film Academy.

Andrzej Korzynski - Trzecia Część Nocy

Dancing to multicolored melodies

 

 

Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.

 

Janko Nilovic - Chorus

Invoking the powers of the singing nymphs

 

Milos Krkoska was born on June 21, 1965 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). A permanent collaborator of Zdeněk Troška, ​​he was born in Bratislava, where he studied composition at the conservatory. 

 

In 1984, he went abroad, continued his composition studies in Freiburg, Germany, and then in Vienna. In collaboration with the EMI Music Publishing group, his music is played all over the world. He has lived in the Czech Republic since 1999. Here, his well-known works include film music - for example, Juraj Jakubisko's film It's Better to Be Rich and Healthy Than Poor and Sick, Zdeněk Troška's fairy tales The Princess from the Mill 1 and 2, The Most Beautiful Riddle, the comedies The Stonecutter 1 - 3, or The Doctor from the Hippopotamus Lake.

 

Milos Krkoska - Other Dimensions

Melting snow with sulfur vapors

 

Satan In Love - Rare Finnish Synth-Pop & Disco 1979-1992 is an Electronic/Synth/Psychedelic compilation made by Finnish Label Svart Records, Finnish label, established in Turku in 2009 by Jarkko Pietarinen and Tomi Pulkki, specializing in re-releasing underground music on vinyl. 

 

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Eliminating what we deeply fear

 

Paul Ferris (1941 - 1995) was a English film composer and actor. Born in Corby, Northamptonshire, Ferris provided scores for various low budget British horror films during the late 1960s and early 1970s; he also scored Reeves' The She Beast (1966) and The Sorcerers (1967), as well as other British films including The Blood Beast Terror (1967), Clegg (1970), The Creeping Flesh (1973) and Persecution (1974).

 

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Mixing dreams in inexact proportions

 

Fusioon was a Spanish progressive rock/jazz-rock/"Canterbury sound" band from the 70's, formed by Manuel Camp (piano, organ, moog, mellotron, vocals), Marti Brunet (guitar, vocals, synthesizer), Jordi Camp (bass, vocals) and Santi Arisa (drums, vocals, flute). Their first album, "Fusioon" (1972) was instrumental and focused on Manel Camp's keyboard abilities and shared similarities with Ekseption, Focus and The Nice. Their second album, also entitled "Fusioon" (1974), proved to be a major step forward adding some Canterbury influences like Egg, National Health and Soft Machine. Their third and last work "Minorisa" (1975) was more complex and approached the music of Zappa, King Crimson and Gentle Giant.

 

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Dancing on Liquid Comets

 

Yan Tregger is the stage name of Edouard Joseph Scotto Di Suoccio, born in Algeria to French parents of Italian origin; he is a prolific French composer, trumpeter and library music specialist, recognized for his work in genres such as jazz-funk, psychedelic disco and electronica since the 1970's. He is known for his cult albums, such as the "Catchy" and "Ducks & Drakes" series, which have established him as a major figure in the French experimental disco scene and are highly valued by collectors and DJs.

 

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Caring for disturbing ancestral secrets

 

Gil Mellé (1931, New York, New York, USA - 2004, Malibu) was a jazz saxophonist and respected visual artist, best known as a cutting-edge creator of electronically generated music.

His 1970 theme for "Night Gallery" was the first all-electronic main title for a TV series, and his music for 1971 sci-fi thriller "The Andromeda Strain" became the first all-synthesizer score for a feature film;his music lent itself to sci-fi and horror projects, including orchestral scores for the pilot of "The Six Million Dollar Man" and the four-hour "Frankenstein: The True Story" (1973), which he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. Melle created landmark electronic scores for sci-fi TV movies including "A Cold Night's Death" and the four-hour "World War III." He wrote and performed music for several telefilms dealing with sensational murders, including "Fatal Vision," Ted Bundy story "The Deliberate Stranger" and "The Case of the Hillside Strangler."

His artistic abilities also led to album-cover paintings for Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, as well as art-gallery showings in New York. Melle and his group, the Electronauts, debuted electronic jazz at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival. The following year, Verve released his "Tome VI," the first all-electronic jazz album.

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Messages from the place of eternal rest

 

Richard Band (1953) is an American composer of film music. He has scored more than 140 projects, including From Beyond, which won the award for Best Original Soundtrack at the Sitges Film Festival. In addition, he scored Parasite (1982), Ghoulies (1985 and Reanimator (1985).

 

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Times of imperial expansion

 

Carlo Savina (1919 - 2002) was an Italian conductor, composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist (violin, keyboards, guitar).

 

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Looking from the opposite world

 

Jean-Claude Deblais is a French musician, guitarist and composer; entirely focused on sombre, low resonances and cavernous sounds, Le Miroir Du Fantastique (or, In the Mirror of the Surnatural), published 1977, is a suite of atmospheric instrumental tracks intended for fantastic and horror movies. Deblais plays all instruments, including percussion (marimba, wood blocks, gongs), keyboards (piano and inside the piano, electric organ, synthesizer, even Ondes Martenot on #8 L’Esprit Voyage), strings (electric and bass guitars, banjo on #5 Nevroville), as well as flute. On several tracks, the piano is used to create lugubrious bell tolls produced while striking the bass strings repeatedly, a feature recurring often in the form of repeated, piano chords or string ostinatos, with or without synth drones.

 

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Enhancing the synesthetic view of the world

 

Fabio Borgazzi (1920-2011) (aka: Fabio Fabor) was an Italian prolific soundtrack and library music composer.

 

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Swimming in formic acid tides

 

Dana Kaproff (1954) is a composer from Los Angeles, CA; he has worked in over 100 films and television programs.

 

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Impressions of modern life

 

Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.

 

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Unearthing fossilized sounds

 

Bernard Fèvre is a self-taught french composer, now over 60 years old. In his early life, his day job was in precision mechanics; on saturday nights he played piano in a R' n B' band, Frankie Presle and the G.men. He then spent ten years as part of Les Francs Garçons, a singing group in the "Don Camillo" night-club in Paris. He now works for a French radio station, providing its 'sound environment'.

 

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Remembering times of innocence

 

Camille Sauvage (1910-1981) was a French soul-jazz-funk clarinetist, library composer and orchestra leader.

 

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Floating in blue stillness

 

Dominique Guiot (1950) is a multi-talented French musician in the ambient, prog electronic genres.

 

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Venture into the path of libido

 

The Astral Dimension is an Italian studio library music project formed by Vincenzo Gioeni and Fabio Borgazzi; groundbreaking electronic and ambient library record inspired by space, planets and stars. Wide and ethereal soundscapes made up with synthetisers and keyboards.

 

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From where each word is a song

 

Sarolta Zalatnay (born Charlotte Sacher in Budapest, Hungary,14 December 1947) is a Hungarian singer. She has been noted for a flourishing popular music career under Communism, and evolved from teen pop to rock music.

 

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Several suspects behind a corpse

 

Basil Kirchin (8 August 1927 - 18 June 2005) was an English drummer and composer; he pioneered techniques which are now commonplace but were considered radical at the time. These included recording sounds he came across and then cutting, splicing, slowing down or stretching the tape to create strange, new noises.

 

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Escaping the killer skull

 

John Cameron (1944) is a British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He is well known for his many film, TV and stage credits, and for his contributions to pop recordings, notably those by Donovan, Cilla Black and the group Hot Chocolate. Cameron's instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", became a hit for his group CCS and, for many years, a version of Cameron's arrangement was used as the theme music for the BBC TV show Top of the Pops.

 

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Dancing under the icy moon

 

 

Angelo Baroncini ( Cicci Santucci E Il Suo Complesso) is a Italian Jazz guitarist and composer. Bruno Battisti D'Amario (Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) is an Italian classical guitarist, teacher and composer. D'Amario is known for his performances on film scores by Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, and became Professor of Classical Guitar at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.

 

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Hidden powers in the darkness

 

Egisto Macchi (1928 - 1992) was a enowned Italian composer who created approximately 50 cinema soundtracks, primarily for Belgian and French films. He also contributed musical commentary to approximately 1000 documentaries and television shows.

 

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Music to receive with trembling hands

 

Camille Sauvage (1910-1981) was a French soul-jazz-funk clarinetist, library composer and orchestra leader.

 

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The evil being emerges from within

 

Richard Band (1953) is an American composer of film music. He has scored more than 140 projects, including From Beyond, which won the award for Best Original Soundtrack at the Sitges Film Festival. In addition, he scored Parasite (1982), Ghoulies (1985 and Reanimator (1985).

 

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Analogizing the past

 

Fabio Borgazzi (1920-2011) (aka: Fabio Fabor) was an Italian prolific soundtrack and library music composer.

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Spirals of deep anguish

 

Carlo Savina (1919 - 2002) was an Italian conductor, composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist (violin, keyboards, guitar).

 

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