Gert Emmens
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"electronica, progressive, ambient, symphonic, berlin school"
Male
50 years old
Arnhem, Gelderland
Netherlands
Last Login:7/9/2008
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Mood:
mellow
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Gert Emmens's Interests
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| General | Music:
- electronic music
- progrock - symfo
- pop
- some classical music and some fusion/jazz (Yellow Jackets, Pat Metheny, Mezzoforte, Miles Davis)
- Burt Bacharach
Composing music (it's my job, actually :-))
art:
- neosurrealism (Roger Dean, George Grie, Ed Unitsky)
- surrealism (Salvador Dali)
- pop art
- Andy Warhol
others:
- (longdistance)running
- synthesizers (especially old analog ones, Arp, Oberheim, Elektor Formant, Yamaha, Korg, Roland and last but not least: MOOG!)
- the theremin
- travelling
- photography
- The Blue Man Group
- spiritual lifestyles
- budha
- cats
- drumming
| | Music | POP (Keane, Gino Vannelli, Depeche Mode, Beach Boys, David Sylvian, Level 42, Mike Lindup, Peter Gabriel, Donald Fagen, Phil Gould, Kate Bush etc.)
Progrock (symfo) (Genesis, Steve Hackett, Camel, Yes, Argent, Druid, UK, Eddie Jobson, Allan Holdsworth, Greenslade)
Movie Scores (Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, Trevor Jones, Bernard Herrmann, Joe Hisaishi)
Electronic Music (retro) (old Tangerine Dream albums, Ashra, Vangelis, Holger Czukay, Brian Eno)
My alltime fave albums:
David Sylvian: Gone To Earth
Wally Badarou: Words Of A Mountain
Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
Tangerine Dream: Rubycon
Ashra: New Age Of Earth
Steve Hackett: Spectral Mornings
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Beach Boys: Holland
Brian Wilson: Smile
Mike Lindup: Changes
Level 42: Forever Now
Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue
Yellow Jackets: Greenhouse
Camel: Moonmadness
Depeche Mode: Songs Of Faith And Devotion
| | Movies | Action, Fantasy, SF, Romantics, Humor, Jim Carrey, Jacques Tati.
To mention some:
The Truman Show
La Vita è Bella
Les Vacances de mr. Hulot
Notting Hill
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Love Actually
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Matrix Trilogy
The Star Wars cyclus
Batman Begins
Runaway Train
The Last Samurai
| | Television | Cold Feet
Battlestar Galactica (the seventies series)
| | Heroes | my late dad |
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Gert Emmens's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Body type: | Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Some college | | Occupation: | Composer - Musician |
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About me:
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composer - musician
Please check my website
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Composing music in a style which is somewhere between retro Electronic Music (Berlin School) and symfo.
Influences: Tangerine Dream, Ashra, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Genesis, Manfred Mann, Wally Badarou, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard Barbieri.
Released 10 solo-albums so far.
Released 3 albums with Ruud Heij.
Is contracted at Groove Unlimited, the world's largest distributor/CD-company for electronic music
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Who I'd like to meet:
Musicians, fans and all of you who want to be my friend ;-)
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