The Attic - Composer's Corner

Episodes

1. 12

   12. Alice Coltrane

   Alice Coltrane, born McLeod, was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! Records and Universal Distribution.

   Mar 12, 2016

   2h 01m
2. 11

   11. Octavian Nemescu

   Octavian Nemescu is a composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary and ritual works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere. Throughout many years, from his youth, he contributed decisively to the development of the avant-garde in…

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   Jan 11, 2016

   33m
3. 10

   10. Pete Namlook

   A prolific producer of electronic music for more than two decades, Frankfurt born Peter Kuhlmann was one of the most influential figures of electronic and ambient music, with a significant - if not radical - contribution to this colorful and often misunderstood music genre. Namlook is Koolman...

   Nov 30, 2015

   3h 45m
4. 9

   09. Costin Miereanu

   Costin Miereanu was born in Bucharest in 1943, but naturalized French citizen in 1977. Miereanu evolved his compositional style featuring a sensuous sonic fabric by combining Satie's techniques with an abstraction of Romanian traditional music. Many of his complex and often virtuoso works include...

   Oct 25, 2015

   1h 36m
5. 8

   08. Ornette Coleman

   Ornette Coleman was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album released in '61. Coleman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (genius grant) in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music. Ornette...

   Jun 22, 2015

   1h 01m
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   07. Iancu Dumitrescu

   Iancu Dumitrescu began composing his mature works in the early 1970s. In 1976 he founded the Hyperion Ensemble, described as "a multimedia group dedicated to experimental music". Several of Dumitrescu's early works for solo contrabass were recorded by the noted avant-garde bassist Fernando…

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   Jun 9, 2015

   1h 14m
7. 6

   06. Adrian Enescu

   One of the most important contemporary composers from Romania, Adrian Enescu played a vital role in the music development of the '70s and '80s. Enescu composed over the years music for ballet in Italy, China and Australia, music for the stage in Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, Australia,...

   May 13, 2015

   1h 11m
8. 5

   05. Sun City Girls

   Sun City Girls was an American experimental rock band, formed in 1979 in Phoenix, Arizona and disolved in 2007. Sun City Girls consisted of Alan Bishop (bass guitar, vocals), his brother Richard Bishop (guitar, piano, vocals), and Charles Gocher (drums, vocals).

   Apr 22, 2015

   1h 17m
9. 4

   04. Aphex Twin

   Brussels based DJ SoFa selects some of his old time favourite tracks by Aphex Twin which were made available for download recently and knits them together in a mix for The Attic.

   Feb 2, 2015

   56m
10. 3

    03. Philip Glass

    The Attic presents a music promenade in the enormous universe of American composer Philip Glass.

    Jan 12, 2015

    59m
11. 2

    02. Moondog

    The Attic presents a short music close up upon the career of American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments Moondog.

    Jan 3, 2015

    1h 00m
12. 1

    01. Sun Ra

    The Attic dives deep into the complex universe of Sun Ra.

    Dec 21, 2014

    56m