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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

Ssshh, Chris!

There is also a paperback at £24.99 . As a canny Scot I will go for that!

George

Yeah...

When I was much younger, I could never understand the term 'library music', as they didn't have music in libraries... not the ones I went into, anyway!

Which leads me to an amusing/embarrassing true story...

A few years ago, when I was living up in Notts., I used to go into the library often, as I didn't have the internet at home. I took my little earphones in one day to watch and listen to music videos on Youtube. I plugged them into the little hole and proceeded to watch a video. Can't remember what it was now, but I noticed that it wasn't very loud... so I turned up the volume until it was blasting out nicely. Anyway, I sat there for a couple of minutes or more listening...

After a few minutes one of the librarians came over to me, tapped me on the shoulder and said "Excuse me, I'm very sorry about this, but could you turn the music down a bit, it's a bit too loud..." Odd, I thought, surely it's not that loud!

And then the truth dawned... I took my earphones out and realised that I hadn't pushed the plug all the way into the hole - and the music I had been listening to (which had seemed unusually quiet at first!) was, in fact, blasting out of the computer's external speakers at almost full volume for everyone in the library to hear!

Yes, I was very embarrassed.