Past and Future Sounds 1996-2006

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Past and Future Sounds - 1996-2006
Past and Future Sounds - 1996-2006 cover
Studio album by Eloy Fritsch
Released 2006
Genre Electronic Music, New Age Music, Space music, Progressive Rock
Length 72:00
Label MUSEA/DREAMING
Producer Eloy Fritsch
Eloy Fritsch chronology
Landscapes
(2005)		 Past and Future Sounds - 1996-2006
(2006)

Past and Future Sounds - 1996-2006

In the early 1980's Fritsch formed progressive rock band Apocalypse. They are considered pivotal in the development of progressive rock in south of Brazil and they recorded many albuns through Musea Records.

His career as composer of electronic instrumental music begins during his master's degree course. The first official solo album was Dreams, composed among the years of 1993 and 1995 and release in 1996. During 1997, Fritsch released his second solo album, Behind the Walls of Imagination, which showcases his skills with computer and various electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments. In the mid-1990s, Fritsch secured a recording contract with French Label Musea. His third album through Musea, Space Music, was released in 1998 inspired in themes as cosmos and science fiction. With Cyberspace (2000), Fritsch confirm his own style within melodic electronic framework. The compositions are very melodic and emotive, with multi-layered instrumental textures/voicings and solidly coherent arrangements including orchestral-sounding synthesizers with soft atmospheric touches.

During that period Fritsch obtained PhD in Computer music and began to teach Electronic Music and Computer Music at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) where created the Electronic Music Center. Parallel his work as keyboard player of the group Apocalypse and his academic activity, Fritsch release through Musea and Rock Symphony labels the album Mythology, a large variety of truly original musical works in which he brought to full maturity the use of sinthesizers to compose melodic electronic music. This ambitious work justly uses the whole panel of his electronic sounds to depict fifteen tracks exclusively dedicated to the different gods worshipped in the past. The Brazilian, Mesopotamian, Hindu, Amerindian, Inca, African, Greek, Egyptian, Scandinavian, Roman or Chinese are outlined in Mythology album by an instrumental composition. Thanks to his panoply of keyboards including a Roland System-700 Laboratory Modular Synthesizer, Eloy Fritsch has been able to free his imagination. Eloy Fritsch's love of the sky inspired him to compose the electronic suite Atmosphere (2003). Once again the composer reveals his ecological convictions: he presently defends the virtues of the gas envelope that allow everyone to live on Earth: the Atmosphere. In this album every track is choc full of sumptuous melodies and luxuriant layers of keyboards. Landscapes (2005) was Fritsch's next work to emerge on disc and is a powerful electronic/ instrumental album that maintains a reverent sense of wonder. The composer offers sophisticated music of seventies inspired keyboard symphonic/electronic progressive music.

Fritsch produced especially for this compilation four new pieces previously unreleases on record and composed in 2005. Musea has the pleasure to present this album of a great Brazilian artist that leads us in a trip, in the fantastic world of synthesizers. The music contained in this collection is magic, powerful, majestic and creative, produced by the composer during the last ten years with a lot of passion and feeling.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Andromeda"
  2. "Aphrodite"
  3. "Floating Free Between Stars"
  4. "Atlantis"
  5. "Aurora Borealis"
  6. "Lake of Peace"
  7. "Shiva"
  8. "Ionosphere"
  9. "The Motion of Planets"
  10. "Overture"
  11. "Pity"
  12. "Microcosmos"
  13. "Frontiers"
  14. "Heaven"
  15. "Savage"
  16. "The Garden of Emotions Suite"