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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Analogizing the past

 

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

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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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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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Lost in desolate places

 

Armando Sciascia (1920-2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and violinist; founder of Vedette Records.

 

Fabio Fabor & Armando Sciascia - Infini

Encounters outside the solar system

 

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.

 

Bernard Fevre - Orbit Ceremony 77

A walk through the cosmic surroundings

 

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.

Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog's first commercially available keyboard instrument.

 

Carlos came to prominence with Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer, which helped popularize its use in the 1970s and won her three Grammy Awards. Its commercial success led to several more albums, including further synthesized classical music adaptations, and experimental and ambient music. She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), and for Tron (1982) for Walt Disney Productions.

 

 Wendy Carlos - Digital Moonscapes

Falling into deadly spyral

 

Beth B and Scott B is an influential duo of US experimental filmmakers, primarily active in New York City in the late 1970s to early 80s and associated with the "No Wave" and "Cinema of Transgression" movements. Scott B and Beth B (known under various combinations of their first names with "B" initial) were married and lived in NYC's East Village area. They directed several "no budget" 16-mm shorts and feature-length films via B Movies independent production company, with critics and progressive moviegoers praising their unique "punk bohemia" lo-fi aesthetics and violent, sinister themes. The duo also extensively collaborated with local experimental performers and noise artists and cleverly played in the New York hip crowd's impatience and "flakiness." Beth & Scott would typically finish a new movie within a few days, ensuring a steady stream of fresh material for weekly screenings at local rock clubs, such as Max's Kansas City or Mudd Club, New York.

 

In September 1982, Beth B & Scott B premiered their most acclaimed movie at the New York Film Festival, Vortex — a dark "noir" detective/thriller starring Lydia Lunch (of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks) with James Russo, Bill Rice, Haoui Montaug and Ann Magnuson. They ended the collaboration soon after the film's premiere, continuing working in film independently; Beth B has a more prolific artistic career, while Scott focused on the technical side, co-founding "Antenna Films" production company in 2000.

 

Beth B. & Scott B. - Vortex

From out to nowhere in vacuum

 

BBC Space Themes is an English compilation from 60's/70's Space TV series themes, made by BBC Records.

 

BBC Space Themes

Immersed in a sound collage

 

Daniela Casa (1944-1986), also known under the pseudonym Elageron was an Italian singer, composer and synthesist . A genuine pioneer of experimental pop music, abstract electronics, Giallo jazz and even heavy drone rock jams, her elusive and infectious music joins the dots and loops between other Italian female electronic composers such as Giulia De Mutiis (later Giulia Alessandroni), Doris Norton and Suzanne.

 

Daniela Casa - Sovrapposizione Di Immagini

Eight waves from the future

 

Suzanne Ciani (Indiana, 1946) is an USA musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials. Her career has included works with quadraphonic sound. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album five times. Her success with electronic music has her dubbed "Diva of the Diode" and "America's first female synth hero".

 

 

Suzanne Ciani - Lixiviation