The men opened retail outlets to sell theatre tickets, instruments, music and eventually records. In , with the advent of commercial television, the music publishing department became a separate company and was acquired by a London commercial television franchise, Associated-Rediffusion. The following year the original KP library was established under the management of Patrick Howgill.
The mids were KPM's golden years. During this time KPM music became the sound of modern television with themes like Monday Night Football's "Heavy Action" which are still instantly recognizable.
The library's repertoire and recognition grew exponentially. Deep in the phone-book-sized discography of Ennio Morricone is a series of collaborative free-improv recordings with the avant collective Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza , just some of the work that gave him nearly as much esteem in contemporary classical circles as it did among film buffs.
Just ask John Zorn. And while it might seem strange to consider Morricone part of the library music canon—a soundtrack written without a film in mind is a singular oddity in his catalog—it's also a good entry point into his avant tendencies.
Contro Fase was released in the midst of a repertoire of early '70s soundtracks that stretched Morricone's compositional mastery through the context of suspense thrillers, crime dramas, supernatural horror, and the last wave of spaghetti Westerns. Its ominous string section is like Morricone's permutation of the motifs in the theme to Psycho , which is the kind of thing most people don't know they want to hear until they know it exists—but the album also seems at home alongside the orchestral minimalism of Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet.
French-Montenegrin pianist Janko Nilovic had a hand in so many singles and library recordings in the '60s and '70s that he's practically lost count—especially given how many pseudonyms he's used over the years. Here, Nilovic and an ensemble cast of musicians—more than two dozen are credited on the album—tackle the bristling, uptempo, funk-informed phase of soul jazz, complete with gong hits, palpitating congas, reptilian guitar shredding, and charging-army horn sections that seem primed to drop into the climactic scene of a Shaw Brothers martial arts classic.
That could be the production music bias at work, though—it wouldn't be out of place in the soul jazz catalog of early '70s Blue Note, either. Bernard Fevre's Black Devil Disco Club has always been one of the weirder recurring echoes from library music's more pop-minded corners of the late '70s, as Fevre's Eurodisco sound has run the gamut from canny Moroder -isms to fluffy kitsch.
It's the work he did before the initial Black Devil LP that placed him among library music's more intriguing weirdos—a weirdness that was self-aware enough to make The Strange World of Bernard Fevre both his highest profile library record and the source material for a re-recording.
But there's still a chunky, bottom-heavy groove under all the quirkily catchy plastic-future analog synthesizers. There are two well-known instances of this song being used for its intended purpose of providing background music: an appearance in Radley Metzger's porn-with-a-plot comedy The Opening of Misty Beethoven , and a spot for the British-market aftershave Denim. The funny thing is, for a song that's been used to accompany scenes of both explicit and implicit sexuality, it's also something of a big, lumbering, stoner-doom beast—it takes some kind of cinematic visionary to hear this and think it's arousing instead of sinister.
The track works fine when it's cut-up and looped to emphasize its sleazier qualities, but as a full experience it gets remarkably visceral—metallic prog that hitches, creaks, crumbles, tears, and finally implodes in a minute-long crescendo of feedback and string-torture that comes across like the last moments of a jam session between Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Sonic Youth. Richmond himself played bass with Manfred Mann in their early years, but his crowning work might be his sessions playing bass for Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson.
America hasn't been known for spawning as many production music houses as the UK and Europe. But one exception was the braintrust at NFL Films. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Consent Management Consent Management.
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