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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Invoking the power of natural forces

 

Giancarlo Barigozzi (1930-2008) was an Italian jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist, composer and sound engineer. Has played with: Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Gil Cuppini, Giorgio Gaslini, Tony Scott, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Jack Teagarden, Frank Sinatra and many others. Owner of Barigozzi Studio.

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Activating hemostasis inhibitors

 

Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced albums for many singers. Vannier is regarded as an important musician in his native country; music critic Andy Votel noted his Eastern music influences and named him a pop-culture icon of 1970s France, alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.

 

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Autumn breezes across the Roman countryside

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

 

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Here Vol. 2

Looking into the eyes without blinking

 

Hypnose is a Electronic/Abstract /Jazz/Funk compilation made by legendary French Paris-based label International Music Label.

 

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War for fresh meat

 

The brothers Guido De Angelis (1944) and Maurizio De Angelis (1947) are two Italian composers and musicians; their musical career started in 1963, where, after successfully publishing an LP, they became arrangers for RCA Italiana. Their success led to many more albums in which they composed, arranged, and sang the music.
 

The De Angelis brothers were among the most prolific Italian musicians of the 1970s. In fact, they were forced to use different names for many of their projects to avoid over-saturating the market. One of these was Oliver Onions, which eventually became the name they were mostly identified with. Although they released many standalone albums, it is for their soundtrack work for which the De Angelis brothers are best known. Out of their many scores, which includes the main theme for the 1983 Italian cult movie Yor, the Hunter from the Future, undoubtedly the most famous and popular are those composed for the Terence Hill and Bud Spencer comedies. Their song "Dune Buggy" for the film Watch Out, We're Mad reached the top of the charts in Europe.

 
They are also known for their work on animated series, having composed original songs for Italian-dubbed anime (such as Doraemon, Ashita no Joe and Galaxy Express 999) and European series (such as Around the World with Willy Fog). They made music also for title song of Sandokan serie, which was based on the novel E. Salgari.

 

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Meristematic tissue stimulating harmonies

 

Mort Garson (1924 - 2008) was a Canadian composer, bandleader and songwriter; he was a classically trained musician and electronic researcher, started his career in the 1960s and was among the first to experiment with the big Moog synthesiser. He was mainly known for his original sci-fi space age soundscapes. In 1967, he recorded his first album Cosmic Sounds which features sonic analog based compositions. Released in 1969, Electronic Hair Pieces contains supernatural electronic moods, pulsating hypnotic effects and moving synthesised textures.

 

Mort Garson's musical universe is close to Cecil Leuter and Jean-Jacques Perrey's kitsch moog pop soundscapes but within more mystical-cerebral-adventurous proportions, where lysergic electronic modulations meet dark epic timbres.

 

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Touring cotton landscapes

 

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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Pleasures of the blood

 

Edward Dicks (5 May 1928 - 27 January 2012) was an English composer. He is best known for composing the music for the novelty songs "Right Said Fred" and "The Hole in the Ground". They were both Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1962, recorded by Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by Myles Rudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another song by Dicks and Rudge, "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam", was a million-seller hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton.

 

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A pale blue dot

 

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1961, Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works.

 

Ennio Morricone - Il Pianeta D'Acqua

Sounds for the absolute mystery

 

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. (1920-1996) was an US-born Italian composer and conductor; he was a major musical figure twice over, in movies as well as in composition and education, and he comes by that presence as his birthright. His father, Gino Marinuzzi (1882-1945), was a major Palermo-born conductor and composer, known around the world from the dawn of the 20th century, closely associated with the music of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Donizetti, Bellini, and Richard Strauss. 

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. graduated from the Milan Conservatory in 1942, and later he was closely associated with Teatro dell'Opera de Camera in Rome, and made his conducting debut with the opera's ballet company in 1947. Marinuzzi subsequently turned to composition, including writing music for movies and radio. He entered the Italian film industry in 1950 with Romanzo d'amore, and over the ensuing decade wrote the scores to such diverse productions as Jean Renoir's Le Carrosse d'or (1952) and Vittorio Cottafavi's Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961). Marinuzzi also taught composition from the early '50s onward (among his most notable students is pianist Vittorio Bresciani) and later became fascinated with electronic music. In 1956, in collaboration with Federico Savina, Marinuzzi co-founded the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. His later achievements include the creation of the Fonosynth 2 elettronico, an instrument on which electronic music can be composed.

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. - Rhythms In Suspense

Traveling on sine waves

 

Felice Fugazza (1922-2007) was an early Italian electronic and pioneering analog sounds composer and player, he has been for years professor of Electronic Music at Bologna Conservatory and he wrote the first book in Italy about synthesizers.

 

Felice Fugazza - Megamoog

Rolling with the beauties with slanted eyes

 

Lovin' Mighty Fire (Nippon Funk - Soul - Disco 1973-1983) is a Japanese Funk/Soul dancing compilation made by English label BGP Records.

 

Lovin' Mighty Fire (Nippon Funk - Soul - Disco 1973-1983)

Expelling aberrant entities

 

Giuliano Sorgini is an Italian composer and musician who initially created music for TV and in the '70s switched to cinema; he mixed beat, prog, funk and psychedelia with library music.

 

Giuliano Sorgini - Un Urlo Dalle Tenebre (L'Esorcista N°2)