A kiss of death

 

Bruno Nicolai (1926, Rome - 1991, Rome) was an Italian composer, conductor and keyboardist (organ, piano). Notably the composer and director of numerous film and television scores. He also served as musical director for other composers' film scores, prevalently those of Ennio Morricone, Carlo Rustichelli and Luis Enriquez Bacalov. 

 

Nicolai studied piano, organ and composition at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, studying piano under Aldo Mantia, and composition and organ under Goffredo Petrassi. Whilst at the conservatory, he met fellow student Ennio Morricone who also studied under Petrassi. A friendship began that would last many years

Throughout the 60's and 70's, Nicolai scored a number of films, working several times with directors such as Jess Franco, Tinto Brass and Alberto De Martino for their giallo and exploitation films. During this time, he also composed library music, primarily for his own labels Gemelli and Edi-Pan, but also for other labels like RCA. His big break came in 1965, when he was musical supervisor for the Sergio Leone film "For a Few Dollars More", scored by Ennio Morricone. In 1966, he reprised this role for "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Nicolai's last score was for the 1988 TV series "La coscienza di Zeno", directed by Sandro Bolchi.

Bruno Nicolai - Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

A castle for souls

 

Simon Boswell is a British musician and producer from London, England. He's specialized in composing music for movies, where he is well known for combining electronic elements with orchestral instruments and his music has ranged vastly in style and tone since the mid 1980s. 

His work for horror and fantasy cinema is key, especially the Italian Giallo films, where he unusually combined acoustic, slide guitar with resonant, doomy synths to create a hugely popular, apocalyptic score for which he was nominated for BAFTA’s prestigious Anthony Asquith Award. 

Along the way he has garnered many international awards and nominations including 2 BAFTAs and 1 Classical Brit. In the last years he toured extensively worldwide with his band, The And, performing his music live with an immersive, video backdrop.

 

Simon Boswell - Santa Sangre

Friction light flashes

 

Remi Gassmann is an american classical avant-garde composer, best known for his work in pioneering early electronics. He studied with Paul Hindemith at Berlin’s Musik Hochschule, where he met fellow student Oskar Sala. Along with Oskar Sala he conceived the score for George Balanchine’s ballet "Electronics" in 1961, he also assisted Oskar Sala with the sound effects for Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds" in 1963. 

 

Oskar Sala (1910 - 2002) was one of the most innovative German composers in the history of electronic music. His unique instrument, the Mixtur-Trautonium, was first introduced to the public in 1952 and soon received international licenses. Its massive architecture remains so unique that no one can reproduce the instrument nor interpret any of his compositions. Sala had been a pupil of Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor of the Trautonium. But physicist Sala studied music with Paul Hindemith in 1930 at the Berlin conservatory and played his compositions for Trautonium. Early on with Trautwein, he composed pieces for Trautonium and performed them with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Carl Schuricht in 1940.

From the 1940s, Sala dedicated himself to film scoring and refined numerous classics. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was unsuccessfully searching for an acoustic environment for eerie scenes in The Birds (1963) until Sala convinced him to use his Trautonium-generated sound-effects.

 

 

Remi Gassmann & Oskar Sala - Electronics • Five Improvisations On Magnetic Tape

Dancing on milky way

 

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'.

His first solo record is "The Strange World of Bernard Fèvre", followed some months after by "Black Devil Disco Club 78" which had a new and pioneering electronic sound. The records met with limited success and Bernard Fèvre remained in obscurity for more than twenty years. He released at least 3 albums of electronic library music during the 70s.

In 2006, Bernard Fèvre returned to recording, writing and releasing music as Black Devil Disco Club.

Bernard Fevre - Cosmos 2043

Diving into the maelström

 

William Sheller (1946) is a French classical composer and singer-songwriter. A prominent artist of French popular music since the 1970s, William Sheller has the particularity of being one of the few singers of French chanson who has benefited from a solid background in classical music. This has influenced his repertoire with a sophisticated musical style, combining elements of classical music with chanson and symphonic rock.

 

William Sheller - Lux Aeterna

A shiny bright over Siberia

 

Босса Нова: Самая Красивая Музыка В СССР is a Russian Bossa Nova Tribute compilation made by Мелодия Label.

Босса Нова Самая Красивая Музыка В СССР

Killing into athmospheric LSD

 

Gianni Ferrio (1924 - 2013) was an Italian composer, arranger, and conductor; co-composer of the famous song "Parole, Parole". As an experienced television conductor; he was the musical director of the 1959 and 1962 editions of the San Remo Song Festival as well as the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Naples. 

Gianni Ferrio - Perversion Story

Living in future times to come

 

Barış Manço (1943 - 1999) was a Turkish rock singer, song writer and tv host. Living in Paris during the 60s, he started a band Les Mistigris. Considered one of the most influential pop artists of Turkey. Founder member of the band Kurtalan Ekspres, died suddenly of a heart attack in 1999.

 

Barış Manço - 2023

Embracing the deepest roots

 

Piero Umiliani (July 17, 1926 Florence - February 14, 2001 Rome) was an Italian composer of film scores and library music who was also behind the Omicron label and the Sound Work Shop label & Sound Work-Shop Studio, and cofounder of Liuto Edizioni Musicali. In his long career he composed and recorded 190 soundtracks, 40 library albums and 35 TV title themes.

He became most famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" of 1968, that was originally used for a Mondo documentary about Sweden (Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso) and became world-famous in 1977 when performed for The Muppet Show. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s, covering genres such as spaghetti western, Eurospy, Giallo, and soft sex films. Although not as widely regarded as, for example, Ennio Morricone or Riz Ortolani, he helped form the style of the typical European '60s/'70s jazz-influenced film soundtrack that later experienced a revival in films like Kill Bill and Ocean's Twelve.

 

Piero Umiliani - Continente Nero

Making love outside the earth

 

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 & Dave Sucky - Psyc Impressions

Traveling through eternal suns

 

Босса Нова: Всё Ещё Самая Красивая Музыка В СССР (Bossa Nova: Vsyo Yeshchyo Samaya Krasivaya Muzyka V SSSR) is a Russian Bossa Nova Tribute compilation made by Мелодия Label.

 

Босса Нова • Всё Ещё Самая Красивая Музыка В СССР

Uniting worlds separated by time

 

Merit Hemmingson (born August 30, 1940) is a Swedish organist, composer and singer; she became famous in the late 1960's for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music.

 

Merit Hemmingson - Hoven Droven

Surrendering life for a justice's dream

 

Nico Fidenco (Real name: Domenico Colarossi, 1933 - 2022) was an Italian singer and songwriter with a long and prestigious career who gained considerable popularity from 1960 onwards, after the release of the song What A Sky (Italian Su Nel Cielo), included in the soundtrack of the movie by Francesco Maselli I Delfini and composed by Giovanni Fusco. With his angelic voice he made millions of lovers dream not only in Italy, but all over the world, singing dozens of songs in English as well.

 

Nico Fidenco - El Che Guevara

Enjoying the whispers of the desert

 

Omar Khorshid (1945 - 1981) was an Egyptian guitarist, musician, composer, accompanist, and actor. Born in Cairo, Khorshid was a well-known guitarist who accompanied many singers, including Farid Al Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Abdel Halim Hafez.

 

Khorshid's musicality in orchestra performances, original songs, and film scores was considered revolutionary at the time in the Middle East. His extensive theoretical knowledge, fusion of Western and Eastern music, and incorporation of different, more modern instruments (e.g. the electric guitar, electric keyboard, synthesizer) in Arabic music was previously unheard of. Khorshid's unique style sparked inspiration from many aspiring musicians not only in the Middle East, but in Europe and the Americas as well. His mixing of "modern" western electric instruments with older Eastern tunes spawned a new, more modern sound of electric music that many use for discos today.

 

Omar Khorshid - Rhythms From The Orient

Travelling across shiny dots

 

Gruff Rhys (Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys) born 18 July 1970 is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals.

In 2014, Rhys composed the film score for Set Fire to the Stars about Dylan Thomas and starring Celyn Jones and Elijah Wood. The jazz group he formed to record the music features drummer Chris Walmsley, double-bassist Jim Barr (Portishead), Gavin Fitzjohn on trumpet and pianist Osian Gwynedd (formerly of Big Leaves and Sybridion) on piano, with strings arranged by Gruff Ab Arwel (Y Niwl). Additional string music was recorded by the Elysian Quartet. In September 2015, Rhys won the 2015 BAFTA Cymru award for Original Music for the score.

He is considered a figurehead of the era known as Cool Cymru (Welsh: Cŵl Cymru).

Gruff Rhys - Set Fire to the Stars

Songs for a jilted warrior

 

Yoru No Bangaichi - Tokyo Hostess Jingi Konketsuji Rika is a Japanese Psychedelic/Funk compilation made by Japanese reissue label Solid Records.

Yoru No Bangaichi - Tokyo Hostess Jingi Konketsuji Rika

Falling into a deep trance through the soul

 

Sufi Soul (Échos Du Paradis) is a World compilation of Sufi sounds, made by Network Medien label, a German label with focus on world music, set up in 1979 and run by Christian Scholze.

This is a culturally and geographically diverse compilation of music taken from all corners of the Islamic world. There are songs on this compilation from West and North Africa, Turkey, across the Middle East, Iran, and Central Asia to Pakistan. 

Sufism is the mystical (but not monastic) branch of Islam; for hundreds of years, Sufis have used music in religious ritual (Sama) for ecstatic dance to achieve a state of trance. This is really some of the first trance music in history.

Sufi Soul (Echos Du Paradis)

Living within biogeochemical cycles

 

La Natura E L'Uomo is an Italian Easy Listening/Jazz compilation reissued by Italian Milan-based label Intervallo.

La Natura E L'Uomo

A walk through the inner clock

 

George Antheil (1900 - 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. 

 

In 1923 Antheil moved to Paris, where he had the support of many influential friends, among them his idol Igor Stravinsky, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and Man Ray.

His inventions included a patented torpedo guidance system and a broad-spectrum signal transmission system which then was called frequency skipping, co-authored with actress Hedy Lamarr. He wrote his autobiography Bad Boy of Music in 1944.

Lowell Percussion Ensemble - Ballet Mécanique

Strange drops on the abandoned body

 

Bruno Nicolai (1926, Rome - 1991, Rome) was an Italian composer, conductor and keyboardist (organ, piano). Notably the composer and director of numerous film and television scores. He also served as musical director for other composers' film scores, prevalently those of Ennio Morricone, Carlo Rustichelli and Luis Enriquez Bacalov. 

Nicolai studied piano, organ and composition at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, studying piano under Aldo Mantia, and composition and organ under Goffredo Petrassi. Whilst at the conservatory, he met fellow student Ennio Morricone who also studied under Petrassi. A friendship began that would last many years.

Throughout the 60's and 70's, Nicolai scored a number of films, working several times with directors such as Jess Franco, Tinto Brass and Alberto De Martino for their giallo and exploitation films. During this time, he also composed library music, primarily for his own labels Gemelli and Edi-Pan, but also for other labels like RCA. His big break came in 1965, when he was musical supervisor for the Sergio Leone film "For a Few Dollars More", scored by Ennio Morricone. In 1966, he reprised this role for "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Nicolai's last score was for the 1988 TV series "La coscienza di Zeno", directed by Sandro Bolchi.

 

Bruno Nicolai - The Case Of The Bloody Iris

Sunny afternoons in Siberia

 

Ленивый Шейк (Lenivyy Sheyk) is a Easy Listening/Bossa/Jazz Russian compilation made by Мелодия Label.

 

Ленивый Шейк

Go forward until total freedom

 

Selda Bağcan is a Turkish female folk singer and guitarist; born in 1948 in Muğla, Turkey.  Her career as a professional musician started in 1971, during her final year at the university The six singles she released that year, in which she interpreted traditional Turkish folk songs in a strong, emotional voice, accompanied by a simple acoustic guitar or bağlama, carried her to national fame. 

Many of her songs carried strong social criticism and solidarity with the poor and the working class, which made her especially popular among the left-wing activists and sympathisers during the politically polarized 1970s.

She experimented with rock and roll and with synthetic and electronic sounds in her LPs, although her musical style remained firmly rooted in the folk tradition. After the 1980 Turkish Coup d'État, she was persecuted by the military rulers due to her political songs, and was imprisoned three times between 1981 and 1984. Her passport was confiscated and held by the authorities until 1987, which, among other things, prevented her from attending the first WOMAD Reading festival in 1986. Partly thanks to pressure from WOMAD, her passport was returned in 1987 and she immediately started a European tour, giving concerts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the same year.

Since then, she has produced several albums and given concerts in many cities in Turkey and all over the world, and remains active in the Turkish musical scene. Bağcan currently lives in Istanbul and runs the music production company Majör Müzik Yapım.

 

Selda Baǧcan - Türkülerimiz 1

Resting in a blue flowers field

 

Charlotte Walters is a French singer from 60's; on this 1969 album (the only one officially known), she sings two songs composed by her sister Chloe Walters.

 

Charlotte Walters - Angel Of Sin / Fleurs De Pavots Bleus

The cadence of bloody nights

 

The B-Music Of Jean Rollin Volume One: 1968-1973 is a Psychedelic/OST compilation from French movie director Jean Rollin soundtracks, made by Finder Keepers Label.

The B-Music Of Jean Rollin Volume One: 1968-1973

The art of air painting

 

Somei Satoh (佐藤聰明) was born in 1947 in Sendai (northern Honshu), Japan. He began his career in 1969 with "Tone Field," an experimental, mixed media group based in Tokyo. In 1972 he produced "Global Vision," a multimedia arts festival, that encompassed musical events, works by visual artists and improvisational performance groups. In one of his most interesting projects held at a hot springs resort in Tochigi Prefecture in 1981, Satoh places eight speakers approximately one kilometer apart on mountain tops overlooking a huge valley. As a man-made fog rose from below, the music from the speakers combined with laser beams and moved the clouds into various formations. Satoh has collaborated twice since 1985 with theater designer, Manuel Luetgenhorst in dramatic stagings of his music at The Arts at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, New York.

 

Satoh was awarded the Japan Arts Festival prize in 1980 and received a visiting artist grant from the Asian Cultural Council in 1983, enabling him to spend one year in the United States.

 

He has written more than thirty compositions, including works for piano, orchestra, chamber music, choral and electronic music, theater pieces and music for traditional Japanese instruments.

 

Somei Satoh - Mandala/Sumeru

The soul is filled with flags

 

Selda Bağcan is a Turkish female folk singer and guitarist; born in 1948 in Muğla, Turkey.  Her career as a professional musician started in 1971, during her final year at the university The six singles she released that year, in which she interpreted traditional Turkish folk songs in a strong, emotional voice, accompanied by a simple acoustic guitar or bağlama, carried her to national fame. 

Many of her songs carried strong social criticism and solidarity with the poor and the working class, which made her especially popular among the left-wing activists and sympathisers during the politically polarized 1970s.

She experimented with rock and roll and with synthetic and electronic sounds in her LPs, although her musical style remained firmly rooted in the folk tradition. After the 1980 Turkish Coup d'État, she was persecuted by the military rulers due to her political songs, and was imprisoned three times between 1981 and 1984. Her passport was confiscated and held by the authorities until 1987, which, among other things, prevented her from attending the first WOMAD Reading festival in 1986. Partly thanks to pressure from WOMAD, her passport was returned in 1987 and she immediately started a European tour, giving concerts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the same year.

Since then, she has produced several albums and given concerts in many cities in Turkey and all over the world, and remains active in the Turkish musical scene. Bağcan currently lives in Istanbul and runs the music production company Majör Müzik Yapım.

Ahmet Kaya (1957-2000) was a Turkish–Kurdish folk singer; Kaya was persecuted by Turkish nationalist celebrities and authorities; he left Turkey in an act of self-exile, and moved to France, where he would shortly after die of a heart attack.

Selda Bağcan & Ahmet Kaya - Koçero

Singing under the monsoon

 

Ali Akbar Khan was Born in 1922 in Shibpore, East Bengal, now Bangladesh, as son of the legendary Acharya Baba Allauddin Khan; died at 87 at his home in San Francisco on June 18, 2009, having suffered four years of kidney-related illness. His vocal training began at 3 and, after studying the Surbahar, Sitar and Tabla, focused on the Sarod.

 

Ali Akbar Khan was one of today's most accomplished Indian classical musicians. Late American violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who became one of his earliest champions in the West, said he considered Ali Akbar Khan "an absolute genius, the greatest musician in the world." Regarded as a "National Living Treasure" in India, he is admired by both Eastern and Western musicians for his brilliant compositions and his mastery of the Sarod (a beautiful, 25-stringed Indian instrument).

 

 Ali Akbar Khan - Legacy

Life in dangerous times

 

Alessandro Alessandroni (1925, Rome, Italy - 2017, Rome, Italy) was an Italian composer, arranger, vocalist, whistler, conductor and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, sitar, keyboards, mandolin, mandocello, accordion, banjo, flute, harmonica, jew's harp, recorder, melodica and ocarina). He was the founder of the vocal ensemble I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. Husband of Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Previously married to Giulia Alessandroni (Kema) until her death in 1984.

Also collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Pervirella. He also collaborated with Morricone in scoring the 1974 film Around the World with Peynet's Lovers.

 

He founded the octet vocal group I Cantori Moderni in 1961. The group, which included his wife, Giulia De Mutiis, performed wordless vocals on several Italian movie soundtracks. Most notably, I Cantori Moderni are featured on the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà", written by Piero Umiliani for the 1968 Luigi Scattini mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso and popularized on The Muppets Show.

Alessandro has also composed film scores, including Any Gun Can Play (1967), Johnny Hamlet (1968), The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine (1969), Lady Frankenstein (1971), The Devil's Nightmare (1971), The Mad Butcher (1971), Seven Hours of Violence (1973), Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973), Poker in Bed (1974), White Fang and the Hunter (1975), Blood and Bullets (1976), L'adolescente (1976), La professoressa di scienze naturali (1976), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), Women's Camp 119 (1977), Killer Nun (1978), L'imbranato (1979), and Trinity Goes East (1998).

Alessandro Alessandroni - Atmosfera Bellica

I am not a number!

 

Ron Grainer (1922 - 1981) was an Australian television and film composer. He worked mainly in the UK and wrote the theme music for television shows, including Maigret (1960), Steptoe And Son (1962-65, 1970-74), The Prisoner (1967) and Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978), but he is best remembered for composing the "Doctor Who" theme.

 

 

The Ron Grainer Orchestra - The Prisoner

Psycho moogs from outer space

 

Samuel Lloyd Spence (1927 - 2016) was an American soundtrack composer best known for his work with NFL Films. In the early 70's he was an expat working in a community of German rock musicians.

 

As a student of music composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with the great composers Arthur Honegger and Francis Poulenc, Spence settled in Europe making his way to Germany to find symphony orchestras to help him develop music for film and television. To balance his classical composition, Spence was able to use his Hollywood credentials to score German TV commissions making dozens of groovy symphonic scores with electronic flourishes.

 

 

Sam Spence - Sam Spence Sounds

Meditations on air

 

Klaus Hashagen (1924 - 1998) was a notable German electroacoustic and experimental music composer. He incorporated numerous styles and techniques in his music: choral, chamber pieces for solo instruments and orchestra, Chanson, "musique concrète," serialist and aleatoric elements, "radiophonic" compositions, spatial sound, and live electronics. 

Klaus co-founded Ars Nova Ensemble Nürnberg in 1968 with Werner Heider, served as the Founding Chairman of "Förderverein" (Friends' Association) at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg and was Honorary Professor in electronic music and radiophony at Hochschule für Musik Würzburg.

Klaus Hashagen - Percussion Und Elektronik

The power of extraterrestrial music

 

J.M. Pagan is the cosmic creative musical-mind working behind Swiss/Catalan studio whizz, Zeleste Nightclub engineer, Video Nasty film composer, occasional Jaume Sisa (Música Dispersa) collaborator and future electronic music therapy pioneer; from his mind comes this synth-ridden vocoder-loaded 1984 sci-funk soundtrack to Barcelona's daytime TV response to the universal E.T. phenomena. 

Kiu i els seus amics (Kiu and his friends), was a Spanish television series (1985-1986) of 17 episodes, written and directed by the now famous director Bigas Luna, where a group of children discover an alien who comes from a musical planet, who with his powers helps them to live fantastic adventures.

J. M. Pagan - Kiu I Els Seus Amics

Vapors of imagination

 

Louis De Meester (1904 - 1987)  was a Belgian violin player, piano player, conductor and composer. 

 

Louis De Meester - Alpha Recordings

Rendre des harmonies à l'univers

 

Nino Nardini (Georges Achille Teperino) was a French composer, arranger, engineer, conductor and producer. Frequent collaborator of childhood friend Roger Roger. 

Nardini was born in 1912, to an Italian father and French mother into a family of musicians. His father, a violinist and composer, was his main music teacher. He started his musical career early, at the age of seven, directing a philharmonic orchestra. While still a child, he formed the 5-piece orchestra "Les Diables Rouges" with his friend Roger Roger, which performed at local swing clubs on weekends between the 1920's and 30's.

After the Second World War, he worked conducting and composing Spanish and Mexican ethnic and folk-related music. He formed the Nino Nardini Orchestra in 1951. They were, among other things, featured in "La Chansons de Paris", a weekly musical program wich took place at the Theatre des Champs Elysees. The orchestra continued to perform dance and pop music live at the "Circus 58", allowing Teperino to fine-tune his arrangements in dance styles like paso doble, foxtrot and cha cha cha. He also conducted the orchestras of Radio Luxembourg, Radio Circus and Radio Theatre in Paris as well as taking conductor duties at a French circus, learning with it the arrangement 'trickery' and instrumentation to back the circus' gags and jokes.

In the early 1960's, he, along with Roger Roger, started work composing for music libraries, recording in various styles, often featuring instruments like the harpsichord, marimba or electric organ, and later analog synthesizers and electronic keyboards, instruments which he also featured in his pop arrangements at the time. In the mid-60's, he constructed Studio Ganaro with Roger Roger and Francis Gastambide, which him and Roger used to record and produce their compositions. Teperino and Roger both had fruitful careers in library music, composing a large amount of works for French and British libraries, also experimenting with electronic music in the late 60's and early 70's onwards. Their library music has been, and continues to be featured in numerous radio programs, animations, TV shows and films all over the world.

Nino Nardini - Funny Moogy

Singing songs of wonder

 

Muhammad Ashraf (1942 - 2007) was a Pakistani film composer; he was the most dominating and the most productive music director in Pakistan, and had the highest number of super hit film songs compared to any other music director in Pakistan. 

 

By the end of his 45 years long career, he had composed more than 2.000 film songs for over 400 films compared to many other music directors in Pakistan, and was popular in both Urdu and Punjabi films.

 

 

M. Ashraf, Nahid Akhtar & Ahmed Rushdi - Dekha Jaye Ga

A fantasy on Lara's theme

 

(Peter Thomas was a German composer and arranger, born 1st December 1925 in Breslau, Silesia (today Poland) and came a little later to Berlin, where he remained up to his beginnings as a film musician. He wrote a lots of soundtracks for movies and television series. His music oscillates between easy listening/lounge and electronic/space-age styles. The musician is abroadly well known as director of the incredible musical group The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra. He died 17th May 2020 in Lugano, Switzerland).

Peter Thomas Sound-Orchester - Dancing Ninotschka

This is not a time to argue

 

Jacques Denjean (Igny, 1929 - Paris, 1995) was a French singer, pianist, composer, arranger and orchestra director. Jazz pianist of some reputation and much sought-after as a record arranger in the 1960s. As a performer and arranger, he worked with the likes of Dionne Warwick, François Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, and many others. In 1964, he arranged and conducted Luxembourg's Eurovision entry 'Dès que le printemps revient', performed by Hugues Aufray. Founded Studio Frémontel in 1971.

 

Jacques Denjean Et Son Orchestre - The Tough Touch

Diving into Mare Germanicum

 

Cloud Cuckooland is a Psychedelic/Experimental/Abstract compilation made by Finders Keepers Records.

 

Cloud Cuckooland

Honoring the House of Árpad

 

Sarolta Zalatnay (Budapest, 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.

 

Sarolta Zalatnay - Sarolta Zalatnay

Sounds from a synthetic rainforest

 

Emerald Web was an Electronic/Experimental music duo of Kat Epple and Bob Stohl, existing from 1978-1990. In addition to recording and touring the US, Emerald Web performed in Planetariums and composed soundtracks for Carl Sagan. They released 11 albums, including "Catspaw", which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1986. 

Composing with keyboards, digital orchestrations, flutes, and Lyricon, they created a unique blend of "electronic space music" and acoustic instruments. The Lyricon is an unusual hybrid synthesizer/woodwind instrument that creates a variety of sounds such as electric guitar, oboe and french horn.

Keyboardist, Lyricon player, and flautist Bob Stohl passed away in 1989 at the age of 34. Flautist, keyboardist, and vocalist Kat Epple continues to release albums under her own name, composes television and film scores, and performs concerts around the world. Other musicians who performed or recorded with Emerald Web include Barry Cleveland, Jonn Serrie, Ben Carriel, and Steve Weiner.

 

Emerald Web - The Stargate Tapes

Jump into a psycho-party

 

Les Papyvores was a French Psychedelic/Beat cult act band formed by Antonio Munda and Serge Koolen.

 

Les Papyvores - Le Papyvore

Shaking hips around the globe

 

Merit Hemmingson (born August 30, 1940) is a Swedish organist, composer and singer; she became famous in the late 1960's for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music.

 

Merit Hemmingson & The Meritones - Discotheque Dance A Go Go

Chant for the beloved one

 

Baligh Hamdi (7 October 1931 - 17 September 1993) was an Egyptian composer who created hit songs for many prominent Arabic singers, especially during the 1960s and 1970s; he frequently said that he drew upon musical ideas and aesthetics in Egyptian folk melodies and rhythms in composing his songs. He also drew on ideas that were floating around in the contemporary music of his time. His sound has a classical flavor due to the heavy use of the string orchestra. But he also made some use of electronic keyboards and guitars in harmony with the strings, or alternating with the strings, in many songs. 

Baligh Hamdi Orchestre - Love Story

Dive into the Great Red Spot

 

John Hill is a US. American composer, producer, and songwriter whose songs have been featured in Beverly Hills, 90210; Felicity; and That 70s Show. A former staff producer for Columbia Records, he also has produced records for Epic, A&M, and Arista. He also has composed the scores for over ten feature films and several TV shows for companies, including Cinemax, PBS, BBC, CBS, BMG Films, Intermedia, and Studio Canal +.

 

John Hill - Six Moons of Jupiter

The King of Punjab

 

Muhammad Ashraf (1942 - 2007) was a Pakistani film composer; he was the most dominating and the most productive music director in Pakistan, and had the highest number of super hit film songs compared to any other music director in Pakistan. 

By the end of his 45 years long career, he had composed more than 2.000 film songs for over 400 films compared to many other music directors in Pakistan, and was popular in both Urdu and Punjabi films.

 

 

M. Ashraf - Uf Yeh Beevian

Astronauts in a deadly land

Science Fiction Corporation is a German Psychedelic/Space Rock band, formed by Heribert Thusek and Horst Ackermann (Vampires of Dartmoore).

The Science Fiction Corporation - Science Fiction Dance Party

Under God's wrath

 

Stefano Marcucci (Rome, 1947) is an Italian musician and composer; has been part of bands like the Ancients (Manuel De Sica, Bruno Biriaco, Federico D'Andrea), The Myosotis (with Federico D'Andrea), has made progressive music with Paolo Casa and Paolo Ferrara, among others

 

He composed the music for over 200 performances were staged in the Italian and foreign theaters, working with directors such as Luigi Squarzina, Franco Brusati, Giorgio Albertazzi, Gabriele Lavia, Vittorio Gassman, Irene Papas and composing songs for artists such as Renzo Arbore, Milva, Mauritius Micheli and the trio satirical Marchesini, Lopez, Solenghi. 

For television and radio has created music for musicals, drama, variety, often taking part, directly, to run television and radio programs. He has written numerous scores for films, getting important awards.

 

Stefano Marcucci & Luciano Bellini - Tempo Di Demoni, Papi, Angioli, Incensi E Cilici