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Mun Floyd, Ron Geesin, Atom Heart Mother, Pink floyd

Mun Floyd, Ron Geesin, Atom Heart Mother, Pink floyd (07:11)

A stunning festival curtain raiser: Ron Geesin, the co-composer of Atom Heart Mother recreates Pink Floyd's iconic 1970s 'rock suite' - their first number one album and first Gold record. The performances will feature...

Mun Floyd, Ron Geesin, Atom Heart Mother, Pink floyd

Mun Floyd, Ron Geesin, Atom Heart Mother, Pink floyd (03:00)

A stunning festival curtain raiser: Ron Geesin, the co-composer of Atom Heart Mother recreates Pink Floyd's iconic 1970s 'rock suite' - their first number one album and first Gold record. The performances will feature...

Ron Geesin- Untitled, 1971

Ron Geesin- Untitled, 1971 (01:52)

Pretty rare clip of Ron Geesin taken from a John Peel tribute broadcast from the BBC (I'd guess late 2004).

Roger Waters & Ron Geesin-Breathe

Roger Waters & Ron Geesin-Breathe (02:50)

Written By Waters. Lyrics:- Breathe in the air Make for the meadow and savour the grass while it lasts By and by Spidery fingers of industry reach for the sky Brick upon brick, stone upon stone they grow Choking the...

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite with Ron Geesin orchestra (1/3)

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite with Ron Geesin orchestra (1/3) (09:01)

Pink Floyd Performing Atom Heart Mother Suite on bath festival in 1973 with orchestra, very rare video, please enjoy and rate =)

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Biography

b. Ayrshire, Scotland. One of Britain's leading avant garde composers and performers, Geesin began his recording career in 1962 as a member of a jazz band, the Original Downtown Syncopators. Having released a self-titled solo EP of piano rolls, he left the group in 1965, initially to record soundtracks for television commercials. With the ensuing revenue Geesin built a studio in his flat and took a one-man show around the emergent "underground' clubs. His radical first album, A Raise Of Eyebrows, was an experimental sound collage, blending unusual vocal and instrumental effects with synthesiser and banjo. It proved highly influential on Britain's progressive rock scene. Pink Floyd adapted several of his ideas for the studio segments of 1969"s Ummagumma and Geesin collaborated with the band on the following year's Atom Heart Mother. His spell within their circle was more fully realised on the film soundtrack Music From The Body, on which he collaborated with bass player Roger Waters. In 1971, he arranged and produced Song For The Gentle Man for Bridget St. John, and shortly afterwards supported Genesis. Such work introduced Geesin to a much wider audience, but his own releases (on his Ron Geesin label) proved too uncompromising for the public at large. He pursues a parallel career, composing music for corporate training films, as well as radio and television productions. A skilled studio technician, Geesin has also been involved in the re mastering of blues recordings for the specialist Flywright label.

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Discography

albums.

  • A Raise Of Eyebrows - 1967 (Transatlantic)
  • Music From The Body - 1970 (Harvest)
  • Electrosound - 1972 (KPM)
  • As He Stands - 1973 (Ron Geesin)
  • Electrosound Vol. 2 - 1975 (KPM)
  • Patruns - 1975 (Ron Geesin)
  • Right Through - 1978 (Ron Geesin)
  • Atmospheres - 1979 (KPM)
  • Magnificent Machines - 1988 (Themes International)
  • Funny Frown - 1981 (Headscope)
  • BlueFuse - 1993 (Headscope)

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