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Gert Emmens

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About Me


composer - musician
Please check my website


New album out now! (april 2008)
The Nearest Faraway Place - Volume 1
some excerpts from the album:
Part 1
Part 3
Part 6
Other MP3's: (All are excerpts of 3 minutes each. Just click on the titles.)
School's Out from the album: A Boy's World (2007)
Life Around The Sand Castle from the album: A Boy's World (2007)
Gaming Part 2 - The Quest from the album: A Boy's World (2007)
Warlock's Death from the album: The Tale Of the Warlock (2006)
After The Rain from the album: Waves Of Dreams (2004)
Dawn from the album: Waves Of Dreams (2004)
Wanderer Of Time from the album: Wanderer Of Time (2003)
Gaspra from the album: Wanderer Of Time (2003)
Elektra World from the album: Wanderer Of Time (2003)
please note that all music is copyrighted


Composing music in a style which is somewhere between retro Electronic Music (Berlin School) and symfo.
Influences: Tangerine Dream, Ashra, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Genesis, Manfred Mann, Wally Badarou, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard Barbieri.
Released 10 solo-albums so far.
Released 3 albums with Ruud Heij.
Is contracted at Groove Unlimited , the world's largest distributor/CD-company for electronic music


My Interests

Music:
- electronic music
- progrock - symfo
- pop
- some classical music and some fusion/jazz (Yellow Jackets, Pat Metheny, Mezzoforte, Miles Davis)

- Burt Bacharach

Composing music (it's my job, actually :-))

art:
- neosurrealism (Roger Dean, George Grie, Ed Unitsky)
- surrealism (Salvador Dali)
- pop art
- Andy Warhol

others:
- (longdistance)running
- synthesizers (especially old analog ones, Arp, Oberheim, Elektor Formant, Yamaha, Korg, Roland and last but not least: MOOG!)
- the theremin
- travelling
- photography
- The Blue Man Group
- spiritual lifestyles
- budha
- cats
- drumming

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, fans and all of you who want to be my friend ;-)

Music:

POP (Keane, Gino Vannelli, Depeche Mode, Beach Boys, David Sylvian, Level 42, Mike Lindup, Peter Gabriel, Donald Fagen, Phil Gould, Kate Bush etc.)

Progrock (symfo) (Genesis, Steve Hackett, Camel, Yes, Argent, Druid, UK, Eddie Jobson, Allan Holdsworth, Greenslade)

Movie Scores (Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, Trevor Jones, Bernard Herrmann, Joe Hisaishi)

Electronic Music (retro) (old Tangerine Dream albums, Ashra, Vangelis, Holger Czukay, Brian Eno)

My alltime fave albums:
David Sylvian: Gone To Earth
Wally Badarou: Words Of A Mountain
Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
Tangerine Dream: Rubycon
Ashra: New Age Of Earth
Steve Hackett: Spectral Mornings
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Beach Boys: Holland
Brian Wilson: Smile
Mike Lindup: Changes
Level 42: Forever Now
Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue
Yellow Jackets: Greenhouse
Camel: Moonmadness
Depeche Mode: Songs Of Faith And Devotion

Movies:

Action, Fantasy, SF, Romantics, Humor, Jim Carrey, Jacques Tati.

To mention some:
The Truman Show
La Vita è Bella
Les Vacances de mr. Hulot
Notting Hill
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Love Actually
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Matrix Trilogy
The Star Wars cyclus
Batman Begins
Runaway Train
The Last Samurai

Television:

Cold Feet
Battlestar Galactica (the seventies series)

Heroes:

my late dad