Ariel Kalma (born in
Paris) is a French
new-age
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composer and electronic musician.
He learned to play recorder and saxophone as a youth.
He studied
computer science in college, and while at university he met
Salvatore Adamo, who soon hired Kalma into his touring band on a world tour as a saxophonist and flautist.
[ While on the road with Adamo, he met ]Baden Powell Baden-Powell () is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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By his first marriage father of:
:* Baden Henry Powell ...
, with whom he would collaborate in France and Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[ Around this time, he made experimental tape pieces using his own recorded instruments, found sounds, church organs, and poetry.
In 1974 he took a one way plane to in India, learning rudimentary classical Indian music and developing an interest in meditative and drone music. He was also influenced by American ]minimalist music
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. In 1975, he recorded and self-released an album, ''Le Temps des Moissons'' while working at the GRM studio of INA Pierre Henry
Henry at his home (January 2008)
Pierre Georges Albert François Henry (; 9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer and pioneer of musique concrète.
Biography
Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of ...
in Paris.[ His 1978 album ''Osmose'' features Borneo rainforest nature sounds recorded by Richard Tinti.
Kalma's output increased over the 1980s and 1990s, and his discography now runs to several dozen albums. In 2014, his 1970s work was collected by RVNG and a compilation, ''An Evolutionary Music'', was released. This album reached #9 on the ]Billboard
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New Age albums chart in 2015.
Albums
*''Le Temps des Moissons'' (1975 LP)
*''Voyage meditatif au centre de la tete'' (archive 1978, digital 2014)
*''Osmose'' (1978 LP)
*''Interfrequence'' (1980 LP)
*''Musique Pour Le Reve et L'Amour'' (1981 Cassette, 2016 LP)
*''Open Like A Flute'' (1982 Cassette, 2015 LP)
*''Bindu'' (1984 cassette)
*''Tropical'' (1985 cassette)
*''Rainbow'' (1985 cassette)
*''Serenity'' (1989 CD)
*''Flowing Dreams'' (1994 archive, 2010 CD)
*''Flute for the Soul'' (1997 CD)
*''My Sax, my Love'' (1997 CD)
*''In My Dreams'' (1996 archive, 2009 CD)
*''Endless Breath'' (1983 archive, 2010 CD)
*''Chansons d'Esprit - Poesie sonore'' *''Flowing Dreams'' (1981 archive, 2006 CD)
*''Spirit Dancer'' (2005 CD)
*''Galactica Electronica'' (2012 CD)
*''Lazy Lizard'' (2009 CD)
*''Osmose 2'' (2008 CD)
*''Chillout India'' (2007 CD)
*''Yo Yo A New Man'' (1981 archive, 2013 CD)
*''Yo Yo Homme Nouveau'' (1981 archive, 2013 CD)
*''Open Like a Flute, Vol 1+2'' (2015 double LP)
*''An Evolutionary Music: Original Recordings 1972-1979'' (2014)
Rue de la Gaite
(1976-79 archives, 2017 downloads)
References
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French composers
French male composers
New-age musicians
French electronic musicians
Musicians from Paris
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people