Showing posts with label Space Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Age. Show all posts

28/08/2025

Music to receive with trembling hands

 
Camille Sauvage (1910-1981) was a French soul-jazz-funk clarinetist, library composer and orchestra leader.
 

12/10/2024

Lost in desolate places

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

28/04/2024

Tripping into Lombardy

 
Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide is an Italian Space age/Psychedelic/Lounge cinema music compilation made by Italian label Giallo Records.
 

14/05/2023

Deep tracts of the unknown

 
Sven Libaek (1938) is a Norwegian-Australian composer, record producer and musician. He composes film and TV soundtrack music and, as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records, influenced the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s.
 

07/04/2023

A dance for two serpents

 
Michel Legrand (1932 - 2019) was a French composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific film and television scores composer and wrote many memorable songs. His scores for the films of Jacques Demy, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 1964) and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort - 1967) earned him Academy Award nominations and he won his first of three Oscars for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). 
 

05/08/2022

Flying with the Gods of Palenque

 
(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).

09/12/2021

Honoring the heroes of the black and white keys

 
Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 - January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica; Baxter, alongside Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, is celebrated as one of the progenitors of exotica music. He offered package tours in sound, selling tickets to sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll around some taboo emotions before lunch, view a pagan ceremony, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home stereo comforts in the whitebread suburbs.