Well, it's funny how things come together sometimes. Both my parents are classical music performers, and the music I mostly love, which although I am myself not a musician, I have spent years and years listening to, and learning about, is classical music. However, tonight, the documentary "The Nuclear Requiem" was on PBS, and although I was very interested by it, the music kept grabbing my ears, as it sounded intriguing, not really moving, but suspended in the air, sort of hypnotic, like a mobile made of diamonds, glistening, and gently swaying in the breeze... So I went on youtube to look for Alain Kremski, whom I had never heard about, and found out that actually, he had studied at the Paris Conservatory of Music, with basically the same teachers my parents had studied with there, and practically during the same years. My parents went into classical music, and Kremski went in another direction, exploring the music from Asia (one can hear Gamelan in his works, for instance), and I suppose, mysticism. Now, what is even more surprising, is that about three years ago, the French TV series "Maigret" with actor Bruno Cremer, which I had never watched was on, and what caught my attention, was the music, which I found was enigmatic, a little trance-like, was done in good taste, and was so well suited for "Maigret" (which I found out was a very good TV series.) It turns out that the composer of the soundtrack is Laurent Petitgerard, who is none other than Kremski's brother! (Alain uses his mother's last name, with a slight variation in spelling, as his artist name.) How strange could all this be?! Although very different, both times the music caught my attention, as they do have something in common, an "air de famille," as it were! (Soundtracks rarely impress me, except for those of, for instance, some of Hitchcock movies). Anyway, thanks for posting the link to Cezame, as I did not find much of Kremski's own music on youtube.
Well, it's funny how things come together sometimes. Both my parents are classical music performers, and the music I mostly love, which although I am myself not a musician, I have spent years and years listening to, and learning about, is classical music. However, tonight, the documentary "The Nuclear Requiem" was on PBS, and although I was very interested by it, the music kept grabbing my ears, as it sounded intriguing, not really moving, but suspended in the air, sort of hypnotic, like a mobile made of diamonds, glistening, and gently swaying in the breeze... So I went on youtube to look for Alain Kremski, whom I had never heard about, and found out that actually, he had studied at the Paris Conservatory of Music, with basically the same teachers my parents had studied with there, and practically during the same years. My parents went into classical music, and Kremski went in another direction, exploring the music from Asia (one can hear Gamelan in his works, for instance), and I suppose, mysticism. Now, what is even more surprising, is that about three years ago, the French TV series "Maigret" with actor Bruno Cremer, which I had never watched was on, and what caught my attention, was the music, which I found was enigmatic, a little trance-like, was done in good taste, and was so well suited for "Maigret" (which I found out was a very good TV series.) It turns out that the composer of the soundtrack is Laurent Petitgerard, who is none other than Kremski's brother! (Alain uses his mother's last name, with a slight variation in spelling, as his artist name.) How strange could all this be?! Although very different, both times the music caught my attention, as they do have something in common, an "air de famille," as it were! (Soundtracks rarely impress me, except for those of, for instance, some of Hitchcock movies). Anyway, thanks for posting the link to Cezame, as I did not find much of Kremski's own music on youtube.