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2024-02-23 09:06:00
Soundtrack for a porn movie
"No, you have not landed on Slipped Disc by mistake. Respected electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze tells the story himself. The origins of "Body Love" are quite funny. I received a call from a movie producer named Manfred Menz and I wound up becoming his principal composer for a period of time. Amongst others, I composed the "Barracuda" soundtrack for him [1978, previously unreleased on album]. This led to a friendship which lasts till today. Menz now lives in Malibu, California where I visited him a couple of years ago. Anyway, this Guy calls me and asks if I would compose the score to a porn movie. I said: "Porn? Nah, I don't do that kind of thing". As it turned out, the director of the movie, Lasse Braun, had already shot it and had used my albums "Timewind" [1975] and "Moondawn" [1976] as a kind of "working soundtrack". This was obvious […]
2024-02-06 16:15:49
His transcendent work was nominated for the Mercury prize – and today, in what would have been the composer’s 80th birthday year, it speaks even more deeply at a time of global strifeI first encountered John Tavener when I was a young chorister at King’s College, Cambridge. We were singing his choral work,
2023-12-08 14:00:58
Myth and meaning
Two short theatrical works and one sacred piece from the beguiling oeuvre of the Guy who didn’t write Louise
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