Ron Berry (musician)

Ron Berry (* 1947 in Manchester ) is a British musician who composes and plays electronic instrumental music.

General

An avid technology freak from childhood, Ron Berry started his musical career in 1960 when he was making an electric guitar . With this he made his first experiments in making music and later played in rock bands. Berry became interested in electronic music and synthesizers in the early 1970s. In 1974 he built his first synthesizer, and from the late 1970s onwards he concentrated largely on composing electronic music.

In 1981 he produced his first album, Where Dark Forces Meet . During this time he played both solo and in duo formations, and he also performed live several times, including in 1983 at the UK Electronica Festival as a guest musician with Hawkwind . Several more album releases followed. While Berry used only analog equipment in his earlier works , digital sounds were increasingly used in his newer works .

Berry's musical style contains certain allusions to electronic greats such as Tangerine Dream or Vangelis , but - also due to the use of self-made synthesizers - it is still very independent and cannot easily be compared with other artists of the genre. Typically, it is flowing, atmospheric sounding music, often with melodic passages. Most of his albums also contain very long pieces, some of which have style elements from Dark Ambient .

Discography

Where Dark Forces Meet (1980)
A Voice In the Wilderness (1981)
Osiris (1983)
Wastelands (1984)
The Reaper (1986)
Profiles '82 -'92 (1992)
Heavens & Highlands (1992)
Nightscape (2001)
The Mists of Time (2002)
Temples (2006)
Sun Dance (2007)
Void (2007)
Entropy (2009)
Arctic Mist (2011)

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personal data
SURNAME	Berry, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English electronic musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester