On December 10, 2019, Götz Gustav Ksinski aka Gershon Kingsley died aged 97. He was composer, a pioneer of the Moog synthesizer, and electronic music. He composed music for film and TV shows, classical chamber works, conducted and arranged the music for Broadway musicals (“The Entertainer”, “La Plume de Ma Tante”, “Vintage ’60”, “Josephine Baker”, “Cafe Crown”, “I’m Solomon”). He was part of the electronic duo Perrey and Kingsley, founded the “First Moog Quartet”, but got world recognition and fame with his 1969 track “Popcorn”. This track was covered by Hot Butter, Aphex Twin, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jean Michelle Jarre, Marsheaux, Muse, Crazy Frog and The Muppets. Kingsley received “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the “Bob Moog Foundation”.
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Roger Hodgson: Open the Door
On May 9, 2000, “Epic” label released “Open the Door”, the fourth Roger Hodgson album. It was recorded 1998 – 2000, at “Studio Arpege” in Les Sorinieres, France, “Eglise Notre Dame de Bon-Port” in Nantes, France, “Unicorn Studios” in Nevada City, California, “Barrandov Studios” in Prague, Czech Republic, and was produced by Alan Simon, Roger Hodgson.
Personnel:
- Roger Hodgson – vocals, 12 string and electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, harmonium, pipe organ, harpsichord, church organ
- Trevor Rabin – electric guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
- Claude Samard – banjo, dobroslide and pedal steel guitar, bouzouki, oud
- Manuel Delgado – Spanish guitar, palmas
- Dan Ar Braz – arpeggio guitar
- Laurent Vernerey – bass guitar
- Alan Thomson – bass guitar
- Arnaud Dunoyer – Hammond organ
- Olivier Rousseau – piano
- Alan Simon – high whistle, bodhran, harmonica
- Loïc Ponthieu – drums, wavedrum
- Denis Banarrosh – percussion
- Gerry Conway – drums, percussion
- Jeff Phillips – drums
- Jean Pierre Meneghin – Scottish drums
- Gurvan Houdayer – Scottish drums
- Christophe Negre – saxophone
- Michel Gaucher – flute
- Zdenek Rys – oboe
- Bruno Le Rouzic – bagpipe
- Pascal Martin – uilleann pipe
- Jean Louis Roques – accordion
- Marco Canepa – Morse code
- Jean-Jacques Milteau – harmonica
- Dominique Regef – rebec, Hurdy Gurdy
- Didier Lockwood – violin
- Pavel Belohlavek – cello
- Ilana Russell (Alana Cunningham) – children’s choir
- Sierrah Dietz – children’s chorus
- Justine Black – children’s chorus
- Molly Katwman – children’s chorus
- Nikki Matheson – backing vocals
- The Symphonic Orchestra of Prague – conducted by Mario Klemens
- The Bulgarian Voices “Philippopolis” – conducted by Hristo Arabadjiev
- Samples from: speech by Queen Elizabeth II, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ronald Reagan, Sevik the wolf
Track listing:
All tracks by Roger Hodgson, except where noted.
- Along Came Mary
- The More I Look
- Showdown
- Hungry
- The Garden
- Death and a Zoo
- Love is a Thousand Times
- Say Goodbye
- Open the Door
- For Every Man – Roger Hodgson, Alan Simon
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