Music for Moving Images #ProductionMusic - light is knowledge
Back in the 80s I was lucky to be a founding writer for Atmosphere Music in Lexington Street in the West end of London - a library music company with a difference. It was like a dream come true ... all that new technology to experiment with and be commissioned to write music for a 'cutting edge' library. Eventually Atmosphere became a leading library music company in the UK and is now part of Universal Production Music, ( along with FirstCom music who I wrote for in the USA.)
https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/
( search for Jan Pulsford )
When Atmosphere released the music it was onto Vinyl. Around 1986 they switched over to CDs and there's a lot of music that didn't make the switch from LP to CD.
It seems old library music on vinyl is in demand and all over YouTube. Who knew?
Recently I've been buying what albums I can find that has my music etched into the grooves. It always surprises people when they find out that just because you play or write music on an album doesn't mean that the record company sends you one!
Here's one of my favourite pieces called 'Light is Knowledge'. It was originally written for an AV show and even won a prize at the New York Festival and originally released on vinyl from Atmosphere Library Music.
ATMOS7 Soft Science - Mysteries
https://youtu.be/mFex9-49WoU
What you are hearing is my favourite Yamaha grand piano recorded in Atmosphere Studios, Soho and my beloved Oberheim OBXa with DX drum machine and obligitory 80s gated reverb snare with Art of Noise/Laurie Anderson inspired vocal sample generated from an AMS (no samplers except the extremely expensive Fairlight and Synclavier back then.) It was recorded using an Ampex 2'' Tape machine and edited on a Studer 1/4'' - no wonder it sounds so good! Engineered by Neil Clutterbuck, who recorded most of my music back then. Ah those were the days!
I discovered from You Tube the music had been used in the Japanese anime series 'Sailor Moon'. It's always so interesting reading the comments and quite a thrill to know your music meant something to so many. Thanks for listening and thanks to everyone in Lexington Street for making this happen!
