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Like the unearthing of an Alan Lomax recording or a gem from some back-room of Cecil Sharpe house; Luke Jones' Lux Harmonium is doubtless to be cited next to modern day guitar virtuosos' James Blackshaw, Glenn Jones or the late Jack Rose. Details are few (seemingly intentionally) but this double A-Side is handpicked from an album of recordings by the Devon based Luke Jones. Treading somewhere between the delta folk world of John Fahey or Leo Kottke and an altogether more outsider pop of Robert Wyatt; Lux Harmonium manage to take a menagerie of influences and make them sound altogether.
The Bee Gees, originally made up of three brothers: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb (died 2012), and Maurice Gibb (died 2003), have been successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music. They had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a foremost act of the disco music era in the late 1970s. The Gibb brothers were born on the Isle of Man, UK to English parents in 1946 (Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, September 1) and 1949 ( twins Robin Hugh Gibb and Maurice (pronounced "Morris") Ernest Gibb, December 22).
Schnebel has become one of the many important postmodern composers through a unique craft, challenging our definitions of music, its limits, and even its unusual sound capabilities from humans themselves. But before developing into a professional expresser of music as an art form, Schnebel underwent vigorous studies in various fields. He began with a general private music study with Wilhelm Sibler from 1942 until 1945, when he started piano lessons with another Wilhelm(!), Wilhelm Resch, and lasted with him until 1949 at the age of 19.
Hans Zimmer (b. 1957) is a German-born, Los Angeles-based musician and film composer. Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 12th September 1957, and moved to London as a teenager. While he lived in London, Zimmer wrote advertising jingles for Air-Edel Associates. Zimmer began his musical career playing keyboards and synthesisers. In 1980 he worked with The Buggles, a New Wave band formed in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downs, and Bruce Woolley. Zimmer can be briefly seen in the Buggles music video for "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1979).
There is more than one act named Skirt. 1 - A techno DJ based in Birmingham, UK 2 - A Japanese female duo. 3 - A short lived all-female Atlanta rock band of the 1990's.
The first female composer to ever win an Oscar, native Brit Rachel Portman studied Music at Oxford University, having begun composing at the age of thirteen. Her credits include the scores for 'Emma', 'Chocolat', 'Oliver Twist', 'The Cider House Rules' and most recently 'The Duchess'. She writes lush, sweeping scores which favour the use of the traditional orchestra and are often piano-led, this being the instrument on which she prefers to compose.
Tim Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949) is an English experimental music composer and performer, principally on reeds and keyboards. He is best known as one of the core members of the British avant-garde rock group Henry Cow, which he formed with Fred Frith in 1968. After the demise of Henry Cow, he participated in a number of bands and projects, including a solo recording career.
He graduated in social anthropology at Cambridge University in 1971 but chose to pursue a musical career instead.
Patrick Hawes has emerged as one of the most popular British classical contemporary composers. Born in 1958, Hawes studied at Durham University where he was an organ scholar, as well as being conductor for the university symphony orchestra and chamber choir. He then went on to work as a teacher of English and Music, before being appointed as Composer in Residence at Chaterhouse School located in near Godalming, Surrey.
There are two artists named Dan Jones featured on this page. Dan Jones: a contemporary classical composer from the UK. (See photo) Dan Jones: an indie rock singer-songwriter from the Pacific Northwest USA. See also: Dan Jones and the Squids. His discography includes: For Your Radio (2000), One Man Submarine (2003), Get Sounds Now (2005), and Totally Human (Dan Jones and the Squids, 2007.) See: danjonesmusic.com. See also: dailyrecordsonline.com.