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.
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.
Jean-Bernard Raiteux (01/06/1946) is a French bassist and composer; this is an unreleased euro pysch score to the French/Portuguese X-rated version of
The Devils meets The Witchfinder General! Synchronised by Spanish
anti-establishmentarian, sexual liberator, die-hard independent
filmmaker and unrepentant voyeur Jess Franco.
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.
Emma de Angelis is one of the most enigmatic figures of the 1970's Italian soundtrack and
library music network; her short recording career
provides thirsty fans of speedball psychedelic rock and drum heavy
instrumental funk with a tight discography rivalling many of the
long-standing bastions of the otherwise male-orientated business.
Born in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, into a flourishing musical environment
Emma was the younger sister of future award-winning composers Guido and
Maurizio De Angelis, a duo, who under names like Oliver Onions and
Dream Bags, would write chart-topping lyrical theme tunes for a wide
range of Italian crime, Giallo and Spaghetti Western films featured
alongside full scores by Ennio Morricone and the Magnetic System
composers (Bixio, Frizzi and Tempera).
With encouragement from her brothers, Emma, who would also write music
under the pseudonym of Juniper, would record a tight clutch of
solo-penned material and seldom credited studio contributions to Guido
And Maurizio's film commissions.
Bruno Spoerri (16 August 1935, Zürich) is a Swiss musician and psychologist.
He is active in electronic music since 1965, mostly in film music and TV
jingles and concerts with interactive computer devices and multiple
collaborations with various artists in the fields of jazz and electronic
music. He is also running a studio in Zurich, Studio Für Elektronische Musik Spoerri.
Benedetto Ghiglia (1930-2012) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist; born in Fiesole, Ghiglia graduated in composition and piano at the conservatory of Florence.He then started an activity as a chamber musician, both as solo and in couple with cellist Pietro Grossi.
Since the early 1950s Ghiglia focused his career on composing film scores, often working in the documentary genre. In 1976 he formed the stage company "Teatro-Canzone" with his wife Adriana Martino. He also composed incidental music for all the stage plays by Mario Missiroli.
