Outer Space: Music by Vaclav Nelhybel

composed by Václav Nelhýbel, 1919-1996 (Folkways Records, 1974), 22 mins

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Field of Interest: World Music
Composer: Václav Nelhýbel, 1919-1996
Description: From the liner notes: “Ingenious use of echo, artificial reverberation and electronic alterations gives the music in this category a weird, spooky futuristic, ‘out of this world’ quality, well-suited to super-natural happenings of any kind. Piano, drums and electronic instruments are used to achieve the strange atmosphere and spatial sounds.” Vaclav Nelhybel crafts a supernatural world, describing nebulae, meteors, star clusters and craters on Mars with sounds natural and manipulated to tell the story of cosmic space.
Content Type: Music recording
Duration: 22 mins
Format: Audio
Sub Genre: Electronic
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 1974
Subject: World Music, American Music, Music & Performing Arts, American Studies, United States and Canada, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá, United States
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá