MILES DAVIS MEETS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN IN THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
Listen to an eerie and fantastic piece of film music for the 1971 Michael Crichton thriller, The Andromeda Strain.
Composer Gil Mellé was a Greenwich Village jazz musician, who also had an interest in electronics, and experimental styles like Musique Concréte, where music would be recorded onto tape (no wav files in those days) and then manipulated to create new sounds.
The first track here, “The Piedmont Elegy”, is a great example of a perfectly compact piece of music, experimental, but still following a conventional John Barry-like song structure.
However, keep on listening, and the tracks begin to get a bit more out there!
