BASIL KIRCHIN – The Mutations – Unreleased Basil Kirchin Film Music From 1968-1974 – LP – Vinyl [FEB 28]

LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl. Only 300 copies pressed in this edition.

Some mighty fine unreleased Basil Kirchin‘s film music here, including the freaky deaky Mutations score, plus a killer Eastern-tinged TV soundtrack from a TV show you may never have heard of, called Journey To The Unknown, which was a spooky precursor to Tales Of The Unexpected. Kirchin’s distinctive talent resides in the smooth juxtapositions and mutations of recorded surroundings, free jazz skronk, surprising vocal samples, and delicate electronic harmonies that he employs in his music.

Basil Kirchin (8 August 1927 18 June 2005) was an English drummer and composer. Kirchin had begun his career conventionally enough as a 13-year-old drum prodigy with the successful dance band led by his father in the wartime West End before spending much of the 1960s writing music for British films from the Dave Clark Fives Catch Us If You Can to The Abominable Dr Phibes. In 1967 the Arts Council granted him the money to buy a Nagra tape recorder, of the type used by musicologists making field recordings, and Kirchins work took a new direction. It enabled him to pursue his vision of a sound world in which everything around him birdsong, abstract jazz, childrens voices could be made into a new kind of music.

Tracklist:

Side One: The Mutations 1 – 10

Side Two: The Mutations 11 JourneyTo The Unknown – Unreleased TV score.