Paddy Kingsland & BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Format Details: 2LP set
Release Date: 20 April 2018
Label: Silva Screen Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 738572154073
Genres: Soundtracks TV Series
Description
The 1970's cult BBC TV original soundtrack of The Changes, written by Paddy Kingsland and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, black vinyl edtion housed in a gatefold sleeve.
The critically acclaimed BBC TV series, The Changes, was first broadcast by the BBC in in 1975, accompanied by music from electronic pioneer Paddy Kingsland, who wrote and recorded the score while working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The ten-part series, adapted from Peter Dickinson's book trilogy, was perfectly suited to Kingsland's seminal electronic style, following a teenager living in a Britain where machinery and technology emit a terrible, all-enveloping noise, causing the population to destroy them.
Kingsland used an early synthesiser, the EMS Synthi 100 (which was apparently so large, they had to remove the doors of the studio to get it through), overlaid with live instruments including sitar, percussion, tabla, flute and horns to create a soundtrack which is indicative of exactly how the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's early output influenced and informed the popular electronic music of the Eighties and beyond.
Paddy Kingsland went on to write the music for (amongst others) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Radio and TV series), Doctor Who and Around the World in 80 Days, as well as composing for the KPM music library, who issued eight albums of his work. An LP of his Radiophonic Workshop output, The Fourth Dimension, was released by BBC Records in 1973.
Tracklisting
Barry Gray
Various Artists
Tina Guo
City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Gray
Various Artists
Tristram Cary & Mark Ayres
Tom Howe
Barry Gray
Barry Gray
Tristram Cary & Mark Ayres
Simon Goff
Robert Mellin and Gian-Piero Reverberi
Nathan Klein and Finn Keane
Lorne Balfe
London Music Works & Nick Squires
