Basil Kirchin

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Basil Kirchin ( August 8, 1927 in Blackpool , † June 18, 2005 in Kingston upon Hull ) was initially a British jazz and entertainment musician , who later worked as a film composer and wrote sound collages between musique concrète and free jazz .

Live and act

Kirchin, the son of band leader Ivor Kirchin , first appeared publicly at the age of 13 as a drummer with his father's orchestra in London, with whom he played for the next few years. Then he worked in the orchestras of Harry Roy , Teddy Foster, Jack Nathan and Ted Heath . In 1952 he returned to London, where he co-led his own band with his father, which included the trumpeters Tony Grant, Stan Palmer, Bobby Orr and Norman Baron, the saxophonists Ronnie Baker, Duncan Lamont, Pete Warner and John Xerri and Alex Leslie, pianist Harry South , bassist Ronnie Seabrook, singer Johnny Grant and arranger John Clarke. The Kirchin Band was engaged for a year in the Fountainbridge Palais in Edinburgh, then in the Plaza Ballroom in Belfast, then in the spring of 1954 as accompaniment to the singer Ruby Murray in Luxembourg.

Kirchin's father had an accident in mid-1954, and until his father recovered he took over the sole management of the big band, which then became The New Kirchin Band . The band recorded some records, including for producer George Martin . In 1957, with the rise of skiffle and rock and roll, he broke up the band, especially since he was tired of interpreting other people's music.

Kirchin then retired to the Ramakrishna Temple in India and moved from there to Sydney. In 1961 he returned to the UK to work with Keith Herd on experimental film music, soundtracks for unmade films . He also made production music for De Wolfe Music , using studio musicians such as Jimmy Page and Mick Ronson . Since 1967 he has been using a Nagra recording device to record noises from the environment, e.g. B. to record animal noises from the zoo, which he edited according to the philosophy of Musique concrète . He was able to use his experiments in part through his film scores for Catch Us If You Can (1965), The Shuttered Room (1967), The Strange Affair (1968), I Start Counting (1969) or The Abominable Dr. Fund Phibes (1971).

Of particular interest was his amalgamation of his own sound productions with the sounds produced by jazz and improvisation musicians (initially not mentioned on the publications) ; these were initially released on two albums, which appeared under the title World Within Worlds . In 1971 the first part of Worlds Within Worlds appeared on EMI Columbia (SCX6463); only three years later followed the second part of the recordings on Island Records . After some time in Switzerland, Kirchin moved to Yorkshire with his wife. It was not until 2003 that his work was republished; a few more works appeared in the next few years. Kirchin died in 2005 after a long period of cancer. He influenced musicians like Brian Eno as well as Nurse With Wound or Broadcast .

Discography

  • Basil Kirchin & John Coleman Mind on the Run 1966
  • Basil Kirchin, John Coleman & Jack Nathan It's About Time 1968
  • States of Mind 1968
  • Charcoal Sketches , 1970
  • Worlds Within Worlds: Part 1 - Integration / Part 2 - The Human Element 1971 (with Derek Bailey , Evan Parker , Daryl Runswick , Frank Ricotti , Claire Deniz, Graham Lyons, Brian Dee, Kenny Wheeler )
  • Worlds Within Worlds: Part 3 - Emergence / Part 4 - Evolution (with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Daryl Runswick, Frank Ricotti, Claire Deniz, Graham Lyons, Brian Dee, Kenny Wheeler rec. 1970/68, publ. 1974)
  • Quantum: Part 1 - Once Upon a Time / Part 2 - Special Relativity (rec. Around 1970, publ. 2003)
  • Abstractions of the Industrial North (collection of his production music for De Wolfe Music, publ. 2005)
  • Particles , (publ.) 2007

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Williams: Obituary: Basil Kirchin . The Guardian . Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b "A journey into the unheard", The Times 3 June 2003; Bob Stanley; p. 21st
  3. ↑ (HELP 18), with laudatory liner notes by Brian Eno
  4. ↑ Memories of Johnny Trunk
  5. ↑ Obituary The Independent July 2, 2005; Pierre Perrone; p. 38
  6. ^ Trainspotting: Home entertainment: Broadcast, The Guardian ; August 22, 2003; Will Hodgkinson; p. 22nd
  7. ^ Charcoal Sketches / States of Mind . Trunkrecords.com. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  8. ^ Basil Kirchin Worlds Within Worlds - Factory Sample UK vinyl LP album (LP record) (456750) . Eil.com. May 3, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  9. ↑ Basil Kirchin on Allmusic (English)
  10. ^ Abstractions of the Industrial North . Trunkrecords.com. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kirchin, Basil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackpool
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2005
Place of death Kingston upon Hull