Serge Blenner

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Serge Blenner

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Serge Blenner was born in France in 1955. Before he moved to Germany in 1975 he studied late composition and harmony at the conservatory of Mulhouse. At a very early stage of this new genre he began to experiment with electronic music and presented his work in a series of live concerts in Munich and Hamburg in 1978. Since 1979 he has been living in Hamburg and works in his Studio Esthématique. 1999 he set up his label MdeC Editions and has been publishing his latest albums himself.

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Musique de Chambre 2008 MdeC Editions	Miroir de Soi 2004 MdeC Editions	Virtualis 2001 MdeC Editions	Ars Oratoria 1999 MdeC Editions
Amour 1995 Sky Records	La Vogue et Magazin Frivole 1995 Sky Records	Vision et Poésie 1995 Sky Records	Musique Esthétique Vol. 2 1993 Sky Records
Symbolique 1993 Sky Records	Libération 1992 Sky Records	Babylone 1991 Sky Records	Cosmos 1990 Sky Records
Musique Esthétique 1988 Sky Records	Equateur 1988 Sky Records	La Dimension Prochaine 1986 Sky Records

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“Blenner was vaguely well known 20 years ago as one of many European keyboard artists associated with the Sky Music label in Germany, a company who Iifted one, maybe two fingers (not much more) to promote its material properly overseas. Well from the looks of things he never went away, having added numerous recordings to his discography throughout the 80‘s and 90‘s. Nowadays he mostly uses samplers to create a lush symphonic music of grandiloquent beauty. Piano (sampled) and acoustic guitar, along with orchestra percussion, round out the sound spectrum here, on 12 mid-length tracks that span a moody breadth of emotions, all of which hark back to the late Romantic era symphonies and tone poems of classical masters such as Strauss, Berlioz, Mahler, etc. Blenner‘s compositions approach a Vangelislike demeanor in how they effortlessly scale the heights of mountains and descend the caverns and valleys of musical expression. But where Vangelis delves into darker territory with oblique idiosyncrasies, the Frenchmans gesture stays close to the surface, reluctant to abandon the simplicity of a well-defined prominent melodic shape to carry his message. He handles the technology well enough to create the effect of an orchestra. Close the eyes, relax, and it is easy to imagine “Miroir de Soi” as a very exciting soundtrack work to a fantasy movie. In that respect the CD is a rousing success, and I give it a good score, although I usually prefer something with more quirks”. © 2005 Michael Ezzo, wwww.expose.org (USA)

“Serge Blenner [...] has a unique place in the world of electronic music. His music is totally incomparable with what others do and that makes it so interesting. After he started experimenting with high-grade equipment like the PPG Wave Computer in the early eighties, his music has slowly grown into a specific sort of classical music. “Miroir de Soi” (“Mirror Of Self”) is perhaps his most classic album to date, perhaps also his most romantic. Beautiful orchestral parts, pianopieces, acoustic guitars and a lot of atmosphere have an important place on “Miroir De Soi”. It surprises me that Blenner (as far as I know) isn’t a well-known composer of filmmusic by now because his music is excellent suitable for this. Very beautiful are tracks like “Le Miroir” (nice melody), “Exlibris” (very romantic), “Projection” (a great recording) “Illumination” (darker), “Estival” (great samples of stringinstruments), “Les Méandres” (could have been music of a French film from the seventies) and “Les Anges” (samples of churchbells and fine choirs). This is very special”. © 2004 Paul Rijkens, E-dition (Netherlands)

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