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Some of these cues have enough of an "Abominable Dr. Phibes"-like sound to make them right up my alley. (Kirchin scored that cult classic three years later, in 1971).
Thanks for the recommendation! Looks like some interesting stuff in the other Kpm 1000 series music collections, too.
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Jun 23, 2018 - 4:23 PM
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Graham Watt
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You rang?
Thanks so much for that, Dan. I'm a Kirchin freak but also a bit Neanderthal in that I never really figured out how library music worked, nor which composers worked exclusively for the same "house" as it were. I oughtta have known about the kpm/ Kirchin cues, but all that music on your link is new to me - and it's absolutely wonderful. One supposes that library cues are written to be used and reused in multiple guises - TV shows etc ("serious" sketches in Brit comedy are full of them)... I wonder where Kirchin's compositions for that KPM compilation ended up. It's mostly quite breezy, so not easily pigeonholed into things that are not breezy. D'ya get me?
I've done loads of Basil Kirchin threads, so you can search them out yourselves if you're in any way interested, tee hee. The amount of times I've mentioned ASSIGNMENT K, THE SHUTTERED ROOM, THE MUTATIONS, THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES, I START COUNTING, THE STRANGE AFFAIR etc etc and add nausea is absolutely nauseating.
Here, isn't the kpm library album this??? (I'm shite at doing YouTube links from the spaceship, so the link might not work...) Hang on...
https://youtu.be/2cSqHyTOc74
Just checked - It works for me, but we've recently had transatlantic YT probs, so tell me if the link works or doesn't.
Basil Freakin' Kirchin! Total genius.
///EDITED FROM MY SPACESHIP with difficulty she's breaking up she's breaking up etc add nausea/// I'm a total and complete nutmeg. I never even knew of the existence of that. Just listened to the whole thing on YT. It's freakin' genius man! It really is, for me anyway. One more thing, since I've already proven that I haven't a clue about anything... Library music is usually a, eh... kind of library of different styles, so that the needledroppers for films and TV etc can drop their needles in, no? In the case of the Kirchin highlited, it works much more like a coherent soundtrack, with variations on a theme and a definite conclusion. I'll have to investigate this further.///
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Jun 24, 2018 - 6:02 AM
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Graham Watt
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And another thing (kind of connected to last night's ejaculation of rabbit)... There's another absolutely brilliant library tracks LP from 1966 called "The New Breed", this time part of the De Wolfe library (Basil Kirchin worked more for De Wolfe than he did for kpm, didn't he?), and, like the album Dan mentioned and which I linked to, it plays out like an actual film soundtrack, with recurring themes. "The New Breed" is probably the nearest thing to an actual BK soundtrack without being a soundtrack. If you love THE SHUTTERED ROOM, THE STRANGE AFFAIR, I START COUNTING and other Basil Kirchin scores, you'll absolutely adore "The New Breed". You can even hear the opening double bass line from ASSIGNMENT K towards the end.
As I said yesterday, I don't always manage to see YouTube links posted from the USA. It often comes up as "Unavailable". I don't know if there's some kind of restriction in place there, so you might not get to see/ hear this. Well, you will if you just type in the name of the album, but if this works it's less bother for you. Take 25 minutes out of your lives please and listen to this. I know it's annoying when people "tell" you what to listen to - it can be a real turn off - but I want to share my love of the genius who was Basil Kirchin with you all.
https://youtu.be/EdYkam3vVd0
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Jun 27, 2018 - 11:29 AM
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Graham Watt
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Go Bazza go! We're on more than 200 views, thanks to my constant re-readings of my own words. Same with that thread about that Maya woman.
So Dan - as the originator of this thread - we'd like to have you back so that you can add more of your own comments. My "legit" reason for bumping this one is that I'm genuinely surprised at how those old Kirchin library collections work so well as sustained listens. In my ignorance (it knows no ends) I'd always assumed that a collection of library cues, even if written by the same composer, would cover different "moods" in a generic way. Then any prospective director/ producer/ music editor would delve into the De Wolfe catalogue, or the Kpm one or whatever and select the cue based on where that "mood" was filed. So you'd get "sad", "scary", "moonlight romance", but nothing too recognisably distinctive.
But these Basil Kirchin collections are very much variations on several themes, and often resolve towards the end of the LPs' (in these cases) in a "logically filmic" way. What's more, Kirchin himself had such a strongly recognisable voice throughout his career that I don't think he could temper his style even if he wanted to.
Where did all these Kirchin tracks end up anyway? I don't recall having heard them in anything. Maybe they generally turned up in extremely under-the-radar projects. I know that one of the tracks was used in a short educational documentary about mental health. I mean, he wasn't like Johnny Pearson or Dennis Farnon or Alan Hawkshawe who you'd hear every week on stuff like "The Dave Allen Show".
Anyway, I listened to my CD of PRIMITIVE LONDON/ THE FREELANCER again today and it's freakin' brilliant. Did I ever tell you that Basil Kirchin was a genius? Well he was. And so was Gil Mellé.
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