Label: Great Orm Productions
Catalog#: GOP CD1
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1988
DISCOGS AMAZON
1 The Ecstasy Of Being 6:56
2 Bugler 5:33
3 Cuba In The '50s 6:13
4 A God's-Eye View 4:30
5 Ritual Moves 3:10
6 Looking Back Ahead 5:59
7 Undercurrent 4:45
8 Mesopotamia 5:58
9 Ground Swell 3:46
Recorded June-October 1986 at Serenity, Jersey City, NJ.
Mixed at Phaze IV Studio, Union Beach, NJ.
CD Mastering at Barry Diament Audio, NYC.
Laser mastering at Nimbus.
Dedicated to Landon C. Brown.
bio.
Composer, Synthesist, Multi-Instrumentalist / Co-founded experimental band Port Said (1981-1984). Co-founded band Other Skies (1985). Recorded eleven solo albums of electronic "sonic constructions" (1984-1992).
The remarkable composer-synthesist Keeler was born in California, grew up in Florida, and moved to New York in the early 1970s. His musical career spanned the years 1981 to 1992, and at his death he was at the crest of his reputation as a musical innovator.
While still in his teens Keeler became a research associate with the Loch Ness Phenomenon Investigation at Drumnadrochit, Scotland in 1971, and joined an official expedition searching for the legendary Scottish animal. He maintained a lifelong interest in cryptozoology (the study of hidden/unknown animals), and said in a 1992 Omni Magazine article, "I don't know if they are all real, but I do think such creatures exist." He was a Member of the International Society of Cryptozoology, the International Fortean Organization and the World Ship Society. He used the term "sonic constructions" for his solo electronic pieces. "I like to play this music one track at a time, note by note. That's why I call my work sonic constructions: The building process gives the music a human quality." Titus Levi, in a 1989 Keyboard Magazine article about him, responded: "Keeler's approach is not only human — it's meticulously human. He encodes and articulates an amazing degree of detail into each work, even those that sound simple and transparent on first listening. The amount of information, not to mention the assymetrical structure and sometimes frenetic rendering, puts the listener's ear through demanding calisthenics, but the workout returns excellent dividends. By the end of a tape, it is hard to remember where one started; only the sense of presence and discovery remain." - The Estate Project for artists with AIDS: Keeler (extract)
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