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A new book focusing on the history of both the KPM and the BRUTON music libraries. Several familiar names among those featured...
The Mood Modern: The KPM and Bruton Music libraries (hardback edition)
Vocalion Books – a subsidiary of renowned reissue label Vocalion and leading independent classical label Dutton Epoch – presents its publishing debut: Oliver Lomax’s The Mood Modern. The product of extensive research, this new book tells the story of two of the world’s greatest recorded music libraries – KPM and Bruton Music.
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A host of other composers also feature in The Mood Modern. These include KPM and Bruton stalwarts Laurie Johnson, Neil Richardson, Steve Gray, Dave Gold, Francis Monkman, Brian Bennett, Alan Hawkshaw, John Dankworth, John Scott, Duncan Lamont, John Fiddy and John Cameron as well as the KPM 1000 Series’ house bands, WASP and SHARKS.
The Mood Modern is not only a major study of a fascinating sector of the music industry, but also essential reading for anyone with even a passing interest in soundtrack music.
The Mood Modern specifications:
• Publisher: Vocalion Books
• 486 pages
• Foreword by Keith Mansfield
• Hardback and paperback editions
• ISBNs: 978-1-9996796-0-6 (hardback) / 978-1-9996796-1-3 (paperback)
• Fully indexed
• Two sixteen-page photo sections, one in b&w, one in colour, both containing many never-before-published images: from the Phillips family archive, and of composers, musicians, recording sessions, catalogues, music scores and studio brochures
Product ID 978-1-9996796-0-6
ISBN
Price: £29.99 USD: $38.73 approx EUR: €33.07
4,300 JPY
Available HERE:
https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/prodde ... 996796-0-6