Showing posts with label Ambient. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ambient. Show all posts

06/11/2025

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.
 

04/10/2025

Enhancing the synesthetic view of the world

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

02/10/2025

Floating in blue stillness

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

01/09/2025

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.
 

01/07/2025

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.
 

06/06/2024

Dark pleasures of the flesh

 
Nora Orlandi (1933) is an Italian pop singer, composer and pianist, also the author of some very strange psychedelic Giallo-soundtracks.

Failed simulation of reality

 
Roger Davy is a French session guitarist and composer that made several library albums in the 70's, his most characteristic trait being the cosmic guitar twang that graces all of his albums. His signature guitar just glides along and fits perfectly with all of the enchanting arrangements primarly made with all the electronic trickery coming from the seventies. 
 
Albert Assayag is a French (born in Morocco, 1938) songwriter, pianist, accordionist, arranger and conductor; also works as a musical and artistic guide. He began as a musical arranger and composer of music for television, notably France Inter and Télé Monte Carlo.
 

23/05/2022

Meditation in the northern border of paradise

 
Óscar Ichazo (1931 - 2020) was a Bolivian philosopher and the originator of Integral Philosophy. In 1968, Ichazo founded the Arica School. 

The Arica School, also known as the Arica Institute (which is its incorporated educational organization) or simply as Arica, is a Human Potential Movement group founded in 1968 by Ichazo. The school is named after the city of Arica, Chile, where Ichazo once lived and where he led an intensive months-long training in 1970 and 1971 before settling in the United States (NY), where the Arica Institute (incorporated in 1971) has since been headquartered. The Arica School can be considered "A body of techniques for cosmic consciousness-raising and an ideology to relate to the world in an awakened way.".
 
However, the collective also produced several musical albums in the US (presumably to increase awareness of the school), this resulted in the release of four totally eclectic masterpieces: Arica & Audition (1972), Heaven (1973) and Music In The Nine Rings (2002); crazy spaced out folk, progressive, meditative and psychedelic jazz sounds with some exquisite moments, ripe for sampling.
 

11/12/2021

A travel into the unknown

 
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 - Africa Oscura (2018)