SYNTHESIZER

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SONGWRITER

Ladytron: Roxy Music's lunar landing with mellotron, oboe, and synth

Ladytron is one of Roxy Music's most noteworthy tracks released on their 1972 debut album. One of the song's strongest...
SYNTHESIZER

Plainsong: The Cure's psychedelic liturgy on the edge of the world

Plainsong is the opening track of the album Disintegration released in 1989 by the English rock band The Cure. The...
SYNTHESIZER

Progressive rock adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's piano concerto features innovative electronic drums

One of the works of the iconic Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera went far beyond the attention of the classical... 4 comments
ELECTRIC GUITAR

Adrian Belew's spellbinding guitar tricks saturate prog music with the sounds of space

American multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Adrian Belew managed to extract entirely extraordinary sounds from his...
SYNTHESIZER

The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would...
PIANO

Zawinul incited his electric piano to report the jazz weather

European jazz pianist Joe Zawinul is best known for his founding the iconic band Weather Report which is highly...
PIANO

Mussorgsky's pictures redrawn for the prog rock exhibition

Piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition written by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 retains its innovative...
SYNTHESIZER

Classical modernity in Anna Meredith's underwater reality

The Scottish composer Anna Meredith has already worked with the BBC and countless orchestras and chamber ensembles...
FILM

Instrumental simplicity of the quiet piano drama Breathe In

In the intimate story of a foreign exchange student who causes a deep and devastating rift in a close-knit upstate New...
Contemporary Composer

North Indian classics introduced into Californian underground thanks to Terry Riley

Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley remains among the most revolutionary composers of the post-war era. Famed for his...
FILM

Orlando's director sang the score's leitmotifs

Sally Potter’s film Orlando follows the life of an eponymous, time traveling, androgynous nobleman who transforms from a...
PIANO

Chick Corea's Spanish pulse in the masterful jazz standard

The son of a trumpeter, the genius pianist Chick Corea is referenced as one of the lead specialists in the fusion of...