Friday, 30 May 2008
Christopher Franke
Artist: Christopher Franke
Genre(s):
Electronic
Soundtrack
New Age
Other
Discography:
Shadow Dancing Ost
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Shadow Dancing
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
New Music For Films Vol. 2
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Line Of Communication Ost
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Line Of Communication
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Falling Towards Apotheosis Ost
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Falling Towards Apotheosis
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - Chrysalis
Year: 2000
Tracks: 5
Epic
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
Circular Signs (Bootleg)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Babylon 5 - The River Of Souls
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - Simulator Music
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Tommyknockers
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Interludes And Examinations
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5: War Without End, Part 2 (TV Series Episode)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5: War Without End, Part 1 (TV Series Episode)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - Thirdspace
Year: 1998
Tracks: 5
Babylon 5 - The Ragged Edge [soundtrack]
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - The Ragged Edge
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - The Fall Of Night
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - The Face Of The Enemy
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - The Coming Of Shadows
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - No Surrender, No Retreat
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - Forgotten Dreams
Year: 1998
Tracks: 1
Babylon 5 - Darkness Ascending
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
B5 Combat Simulator Music
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
The Best Of Babylon 5
Year: 1997
Tracks: 17
Babylon 5 vol.2
Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Babylon 5 - Walkabout
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - Severed Dreams
Year: 1997
Tracks: 5
Babylon 5 - Previews
Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Babylon 5 - Messages From Earth [Soundtrack]
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Babylon 5 - Messages From Earth
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Babylon 5 - Main Titles
Year: 1997
Tracks: 5
Babylon 5 - A Late Delivery From Avalon
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
The Celestine Prophecy: A Musical Voyage
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Tenchi Muyo In Love
Year: 1996
Tracks: 22
Perry Rhodan: Pax Terra
Year: 1996
Tracks: 7
Enchanting Nature
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Babylon 5 vol.1
Year: 1996
Tracks: 4
Babylon 5 - In The Beginning
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
Night Of The Running Man
Year: 1995
Tracks: 19
Klemania
Year: 1995
Tracks: 2
Raven
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
New Music For Films, Vol. 1
Year: 1993
Tracks: 24
Universal Soldier
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
The London Concert
Year: 1992
Tracks: 8
Pacific Coast Highway
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
McBain
Year: 1991
Tracks: 14
Music Of Babylon 5 (Thirdspace)
Year:
Tracks: 4
Music Of Babylon 5 (Temporada 4)
Year:
Tracks: 13
Music Of Babylon 5 (Temporada 3)
Year:
Tracks: 18
Music Of Babylon 5 (Temporada 2)
Year:
Tracks: 6
Music Of Babylon 5 (Temporada 1)
Year:
Tracks: 7
Music Of Babylon 5 (Miscellaneous)
Year:
Tracks: 5
Music Of Babylon 5 (In the Begining)
Year:
Tracks: 5
Babylon 5: Sleeping In Light
Year:
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - Warwithout End 2
Year:
Tracks: 6
Babylon 5 - Warwithout End 1
Year:
Tracks: 6
A longtime member of the pioneering German electronic social unit Tangerine Dream, keyboardist/composer Christopher Franke was born in Berlin on April 6, 1953, after studying classical music and composition at the Berlin Conservatory. While playing in the jazz-rock mathematical group Agitation Free, he and his mentor, Swiss van composer Thomas Kessler, set up a sound studio and began teaching courses in improvisation, egg laying the groundwork for what would turn the Berlin School of Electronic Music. Through the school, Franke met Edgar Froese and Peter Baumann, connection them in Tangerine Dream in 1970; he remained with the radical for nearly two decades, during that clip greatly expanding the parameters of electronic music through his contributions to landmark records including Zeit, Atem, and Phaedra as well as influential film soundtracks like Necromancer, Risky Business, and Legend. One of the first musicians to research the replete originative telescope of the synthesiser, Franke proved particularly groundbreaking in employing sequencers as percussion instruments, forging the dim, throb sound which became Tangerine Dream's earmark during the mid to late '70s. He left the mathematical group in 1988 to mount a solo career, subsiding in Los Angeles iI years later to prosecute film work on; in 1991, in addition to forming the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra (BSFO), Franke issued his debut solo album, Pacific Coast Highway. In 1993, he founded his have label, Sonic Images, after releasing several collections of his music for the syndicated sci-fi series Babylon 5 as comfortably as his continuing solo recordings. Three age later, Franke released Perry Rhodan Pax Terra which was followed in 1999 by Heroic.