ELECTRO NEO-IMPRESSIONIST?

[imck...@interserv.com]

I ADORE the music of Debussy, Ravel, Delius etc.
CD's can be so expensive it's hard "take a risk"
with some artists. Anyone out know of any
Newage artists whose music resembles the above.
I aspire to be a future synth-based composer of
quasi-symphonic music and I would like to hear
the work of someone already out there other then
Wendy Carlos who I also like.

[Neil Leacy]

Without hesitation I'd recommend Constance Demby's Novus Magnificat and
Aeterna. Both are wonderful albums of symphonic music. Also look up
any Tomita album for electronic versions of peices by all three of the
composer's you named.

Reagrds, Neil
(le...@britax.co.uk)

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[Soundwave [Chad Gould]]

imck...@interserv.com wrote:
: I ADORE the music of Debussy, Ravel, Delius etc.

: CD's can be so expensive it's hard "take a risk"
: with some artists. Anyone out know of any
: Newage artists whose music resembles the above.
: I aspire to be a future synth-based composer of
: quasi-symphonic music and I would like to hear
: the work of someone already out there other then
: Wendy Carlos who I also like.

Liz Story, esp. if you like the piano stuff of Debussy, Ravel, etc. All
piano, but with a heavily impressionistic feel (and a good
improvisational feel as well). Personally, this is my "sure bet"
recommendation....

You might also like Vangelis, although IMHO his similarities are more
like Tchaikovsky then anything else.

Klaus Schulze's recent stuff has borrowed heavily from Arabic and
Mediterrenean scales and rhythms, especially _The Dome Event_. Although
I can't say you'll like it, you might.

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[KMKeller]

I highly recommend Kevin Keller. His two releases "The Mask Of Memory"
and "Intermezzo" are both heavily influenced by French Impressionism.
"Intermezzo" was the featured album on Hearts of Space Program #411
"Northern Lights 3".
Both albums are available from
Artist Access
(800) 341-4505
http://www.artistaccess.com/cdaudio/artistaccess.html

Also, if your local public radio station gets "Echoes", they have
scheduled a "Living Room Concert" with Kevin Keller and cellist Eric
Stein, to air within the next couple months.

[Ken Stitzel]

imck...@interserv.com wrote:
: I ADORE the music of Debussy, Ravel, Delius etc.
: CD's can be so expensive it's hard "take a risk"
: with some artists. Anyone out know of any
: Newage artists whose music resembles the above.
: I aspire to be a future synth-based composer of
: quasi-symphonic music and I would like to hear
: the work of someone already out there other then
: Wendy Carlos who I also like.

This may not be _quite_ what you're asking for, but the Japanese artist
Isao Tomita has done (in my opinion) some excellent synthetic interpreta-
tions of Impressionist music. He is still quite a synth master in Japan,
but has fallen from the limelight in the US. He seems to inspire love or
hatred in listeners (love here). His own compositions, some of which have
won prestigious awards in Japan, seem to fit this neo-impressionist
character.

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Hewlett-Packard Company (a pretty cool company to work for)
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (opinions expressed herein not necessarily
representative of official HP neo-
impressionist policy :-)