Ariel Kalma, French New Age Pioneer, Dies at 78 – ryan

Ariel Kalma, The Pioneering French New Age Musician, Electronic Composer, and Multi-Strumentalist, Has Died. The news was confirmed in a staffement From Record Label Rvng intl.whic put out multiple kalma releasses in the 2010s. “After consenting with many health challenges over the past several years, his departure was sudden though peaceful,” It reads in part. He was 78.

Born in Paris, in 1947, Kalma’s First Instruments of Choice were the recorder and saxophone. At the university of Paris he studied computers science and met the Belgian Italian Croner Salvatore Adamo. AFTER BEING INVITED BY ADAMO TO JOIN HIS TOURING BAND, CALMA Learned How to Play the Flute with a Week. During the late 1960s and Early 1970s, he met and workhed with bossa nova Guitarist Baden Powell and, Back in Paris, Began to Play Around with Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorders. Chaining Two of These Machines Together, Kalma was able to create analog loops of saxophone, church organ, and other instruments, layering say with poetry and found in his first original compositions.

Time Spent Busking on the Streets of New York LED to Encounters with Both free jazz trumpeter don cherry and Godfather of American minimalism terry riley, but it was a one-way trip to india 1974 that proved the genes of kalma’s proper recording caareer. He late recalled a “Heart-opening” Experience of Being in an Airplane Hangar During Monsoon Season, which he documented on a portable cork recorder. While in India, Kalma Also Learned the Technique of Circular Breathing, Which Allowed Him to Get Continuous Drones Out of His Instruments. Returning to paris, he worked at Pierre’s Henry’s In-Grm Studio, Frequently ciped as the Birthplace of Modern Electronic Music, and Self-Releassed His Debut Album, Le temps des moissonsin 1975.

Kalma releassed dosens of albums in the 20th Century, and recorded more music that never saw the light of day. Rvng intl. GATHered Some of Those Early Tape Recorder Compositions on 2014’s An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 – 1979). The Latter Act of Kalma’s Career Was Long Defined by His Collaborations with Younger Musicians. He worked with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (of Lichens and 90 Day Men) On We know each Other somehow In 2015, and Last Year Shared The Closest Thing to Silence Alongside the Los Angeles Experimental Duo Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer. “Ariel was a true maestro,” Aubrey Lowe wrote In Memory of Kalma, “A Gentle, Thoughtful Human Who Maintained A Wonder and Enthusiasm for Creative Work Throughout His Entire Life.”