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Trunk. Basil Kirchin (8 August 1927 – 18 June 2005) was an English drummer and composer. His career spanned from playing drums in his father's big band at the age of 13, through scoring films, to electronic music featuring tape manipulation of the sounds of birds, animals, insects and children. [1]
Feb 15, 2017 · Basil Kirchin was a maverick musician and pioneering composer who is credited as a founding father of ambient music. Yet despite being hailed by acts such as Brian Eno and St Etienne, he remains ...
Post Heath, and by the early 50s, the Kirchin Band had arrived - led and directed by Basil and his father Ivor. The countrywide work and broadcasts kept coming in, including a long series of live broadcast with the legendary vocalist Ruby Murray. In 1954 Ivor was involved in a serious car accident, and told Basil to take over the band.
Basil Kirchin (1927–2005) Kirchin was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, the son of dance band leader Ivor Kirchin, He made his debut as a drummer, aged 13, in his father’s band. Later he joined a succession of other dance orchestras including those of Harry Roy, Teddy Foster, Jack Nathan and Ted Heath, and won the Melody Maker poll as a top ...
Feb 15, 2017 · Basil Kirchin was a maverick musician and pioneering composer who is credited as a founding father of ambient music.
Aug 12, 2005 · Thu 11 Aug 2005 20.20 EDT. Basil Kirchin, who has died of cancer aged 77, started life as a drummer on the London jazz scene, but his true instrument turned out to be the world around him. More ...
Basil Kirchin (8 August 1927 – 18 June 2005) was an English drummer and composer. His career spanned from playing drums in his father's big band at the age of 13, through scoring films, to electronic music featuring tape manipulation of the sounds of birds, animals, insects and children. Kirchin started his drumming career at 13 years old in the 1940s. He’d play for eight hours a day and ...
