Dirk Campbell (born Hugo Martin Montgomery Campbell, 30 December 1950), previously known as Mont Campbell, is a British

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, and company executive. Campbell is best known for his work with

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s. Initially termed " progressive pop", the ...

bands such as

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and

National Health National Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, including gui ...

, though he would later "forswear the genre of rock music altogether, and would begin to develop an interest in folk tradition and, increasingly, non-western music." Cambell began a full-time career as

in 1989 with film and commercials commissions from Redwing Films and now lectures on music in remote antiquity, and ways of incorporating non-western music into contemporary composition. He is a director of Ovesco, a Sussex-based alternative energy company. In December 2024 Campbell put his music up for sale on

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Biography

Early years

Cambell was born in a British military hospital in Ismaïlia, Egypt to parents Mary Elizabeth "Jackie" Shaw and Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Archibald Leslie Montgomery "Archie" Campbell (1910-1974) of the

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. Campbell was named after his grandfather, the composer

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. The family moved to Kenya in 1951, where they lived until his mother and sister’s return to the UK in 1962, his father in 1963. In 1966, Campbell attended the City of London Boys School. While there, he met aspiring keyboard player Dave Stewart and budding guitarist

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. The pair recruited Campbell into their band, and Campbell switch his focus from

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.Mont Campbell biography
on ''Calyx''

Rock musician (1968–1976)

In early 1968, Campbell, Stewart and Hillage formed the short-lived psychedelic blues band

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with drummer

Clive Brooks Clive Colin Brooks (28 December 1949 – 5 May 2017) was a drummer, best known for his work in the English progressive rock band Egg. Biography Uriel/Egg Clive Colin Brooks was born in Bow, East London. Answering a ''Melody Maker'' ad in ear ...

. Following Hillage's departure in mid-1968, the remaining trio took on a progressive rock direction and changed the band name to Egg. They group would briefly reunite with Hillage to record an album under the project name of Arzachel; each member employed an arcane surname both for fun and to get around contractual problems. Egg released its self-titled debut album in 1970, and '' The Polite Force'' the following year. Campbell played bass guitar in the group (as well as singing and adding French horn) and was also its main composer, citing

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as his main influence. He has, however, expressed reservations about his later time with the band, saying of ''The Polite Force'', "I didn't enjoy the sessions which seemed to me turgid and unsatisfying. I don't like the album." All Egg members also played and composed for the Ottawa Music Co., a large ensemble co-led by Dave Stewart and

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between 1971 and 1972, which brought together members of Egg,

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and

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, along with other composers and instrumentalists. Cutler recalls the ensemble playing Campbell's "Study for Four Keyboards", "Enneagram", and "Three Pieces for Wind Quartet" (and also that Campbell, during the last OMC show, "(swung) across the stage on a rope shouting 'It's a mug's game'.") Persistently struggling to maintain their record deal with Deram, Egg amicably disbanded in 1972. By this time Campbell had become interested in

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and was involved in the international spiritual movement

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. Having unsuccessfully pursued work as a plumber and as a graphic designer, he was invited to compose music for a film by director David Anderson: this in turn led to him attending the

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, studying the

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and composition and gaining his ARCM diploma in 1974. With mixed feelings about his academic studies, he reunited with his former Egg bandmates for their final album ''The Civil Surface'' (also in 1974), which consisted of unreleased material written in 1971–72, including what many view as Campbell's masterpiece in the progressive rock canon, ''Enneagram''. The album was bolstered by two Campbell-composed wind quartets (which featured neither Stewart nor Brooks). During this period, Campbell maintained a connection with the

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movement of which Egg had been a part, playing and recording as a support musician for Henry Cow, Hatfield & The North, Slapp Happy and others. Following graduation (and after a very brief stint with

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's jazz fusion band

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), Campbell linked up with Stewart again in 1975, this time as part of the original line-up of

. Although Campbell initially enjoyed his work with the band (for which he composed several pieces including "Paracelsus", "Agrippa", "Zabaglione" and "Starlight on Seaweed"), within a year he became disheartened by its lack of success. He left the band in June 1976 after a UK tour, a radio session for the BBC and a "disastrous" performance at a one-off French festival (the latter being his final appearance with the group). Although National Health secured a recording contract following his departure, Campbell's compositions would be dropped from the set: recordings of them would not surface until twenty years later on the archive collection "Missing Pieces".

World musician (1977–present)

Campbell's final gig with National Health resulted in a total discouragement with rock music, and in subsequent years he would abandon the genre altogether, describing it as having "very limited powers of expression... a rather fixed, limited stratum of musical experience, and one that I no longer feel particularly drawn to." In 1977, he dropped his old school nickname of "Mont" in favour of "Dirk" and formed the two-guitar, flute and violin quartet Mozaic, which mostly played "pleasant, undemanding" Campbell pieces at weddings and social events. He also recorded an (ultimately unreleased) tape of other compositions, called ''Individual Extracts''. In 1983, Campbell developed an overwhelming interest in world music and spent most of the next decade-and-a-half mastering a wide variety of wind instruments, harps and lutes from diverse cultures around the world. This led to an ongoing career as a specialist session musician and composer for films, theatre and television, including work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and contributions to ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' State of Play'', the 2008 revival of ''

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'' and the 2017 film of ''

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''. He has enjoyed a run of cinema collaborations with his 1970s creative partner David Anderson, including ''Dreamland Express'', ''In the Time of Angels'' and ''Deutsche Post''. Campbell released his first solo album, ''Music from a Round Tower'' in 1996 (a mixture of authentic traditional instrumentation with MIDI, sampling and sequencing, plus contributions from Dave Stewart). Despite declaring in 2004 that he "personally (had) nothing to say in the western musical language" Campbell followed it up in 2009 with ''Music from a Walled Garden''. He has gone on to record as half of The World Wind Band (the other half being fellow multi-wind player Jan Hendrickse) and currently plays and composes as part of the "non-European folk" band Kalamus, which he has described as "mostly flute and bagpipe music with percussion" and which released their first album ''Bronze'' in 2011. In January 2009 Campbell appeared on British television in the BBC documentary ''Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements'', reminiscing about Egg and the progressive rock movement in general.

Activist

Campbell is a member of

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and protested against fascism at the

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Multi-instrumental abilities

Campbell is a diverse multi-instrumentalist. During his time as a rock musician he predominantly played electric bass guitar, six-string electric guitar and

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, but has mostly abandoned these instruments since his retirement from rock music. He is an occasional singer and, on his solo albums, has worked with digital age music technology (sampling, programming and MIDI). Since Campbells's reinvention as a world music and historical musical specialist, he has focused predominantly on acoustic instrumentation and plays around forty different instruments, including:Instrument details
on biography, Dirk Campbell homepage *horns (

, ancient Roman cornu, animal horns, "primitive trumpets") *side-blown/transverse flutes (

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, Irish flute, Indian

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tambin) *end-blown flutes (Southeast Asian

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, Persian

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, Balkan/Turkish

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*ducted/fipple flutes (

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, Slovakian

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, Kenyan filimbi,

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) *

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woodwind instruments (

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, Egyptian/Palestinian

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, Arabic

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) *

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woodwind instruments (Turkish/Balkan

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, Armenian

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, European

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, Indian

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) *bagpipes (

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, Irish

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, French

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, Balkan

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, Hungarian

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, Italian

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, North African

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, medieval/early English bagpipes) *harps (West African kora, Gaelic

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) *assorted

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s *east African

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lyre *unspecified percussion

Work in energy provision

Campbell also pursues parallel work as an environmentalist and alternative energy specialist. He is a founding director of the Ouse Valley Energy Services Company (Ovesco), which began its work by initiating a solar power station in Campbell's current hometown of

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and has since expanded to cover further sustainable energy projects in the Ouse Valley region.

Family life

His partner Adrienne died in 2012. Campbell has one son and six daughters, one of whom,

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, was killed in 2018 fighting for the Kurdish

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in Syria.

Discography

Solo

* ''Music from a Round Tower'' (Resurgence RES-120-CD, 1996) UK; (

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ESD 81212, 1997) US * ''Music from a Walled Garden'' (MFA-02, 2009 – dist. Burning Shed) Worldwide * ''Long Time Gone'' (2025, private issue, dist. aMarxe on

) Worldwide

With the World Wind Band (Dirk Campbell and Jan Hendrickse)

* ''Safar'' (Hermes Records HER029, 2006)

With Uriel/Arzachel

* ''Arzachel'' (Evolution, 1969) * ''Arzachel Collectors Edition'' (Egg Archive CD69-7201, November 2007 – dist. Burning Shed)

With
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* ''

'' (Deram POCD-1843, March 1970) * '' The Polite Force'' (Deram POCD-1844, February 1971) * '' The Civil Surface'' (Virgin VJD-5026, December 1974) * ''The Metronomical Society'' (Egg Archive CD69-7202, November 2007 – dist. Burning Shed)

With
National Health National Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, including gui ...

* ''National Health Complete'' (East Side Digital ESD 80402/412, 1990) * ''Missing Pieces'' (East Side Digital ESD 81172, 1996)

Appears on (partial list)

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- ''Desperate Straights'' (Virgin, 1974) rench horn*

Hatfield and the North Hatfield and the North were an experimental Canterbury scene rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975, with some reunions thereafter. Career In mid 1972 the band grew out of a line-up of ex-members of blues/jazz/rock band ...

- ''The Rotters' Club'' (Virgin, 1975) rench horn*''Memories of Ireland'' (Medarcy ECD 3113, 1995) *''Relaxing Spa'' (Killer Tracks, 1995) *''Textures/Landscapes/Travel'' (

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, Carlin Production Music 206, 1995 with

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) *''National Flavours 5: Balkan/Gaelic/Middle East/Africa'' (library music, Carlin Production Music 220, 1995 with

) *''Ethnic'' (library music, Zone 002, 1995) *''Desire'' (library music, Zone Music 012, 1995) *''Thrill Seekers'' (library music, Zone Music 014, 1995) *''Fun Fun Fun'' (library music, Zone Music 015, 1995) *''People's Stories'' (library music, Zone Music 021, 1995) *''Earth Matters'' (library music, Zone Music 023, 1995) *''Prehistory and Early Man'' (library music, Zone Music 034, 1995) *''Early Medieval'' (library music, Zone Music 036, 1995) *''Audio Allsorts 1'' (library music, Zone Plus 500, 1995) *''Africa United'' (library music, Zone Plus 506, 1995) *''Funtastic 1'' (library music, Zone Plus 558, 1995) *''Russia Uncovered'' (library music, Zone Plus 616, 1995) *''World Atmosphere'' (library music, Music House MHA-23, 1995) *''World Sport'' (library music, Music House MHE-43, 1995) *''World Journeys'' (library music, Bruton BR-0219, 1996) *'' Kazaam (soundtrack)'' (Perspective Records 549 027-2, 1996) *''India'' (library music, Music House MHS-32, 1997) *Bayete and

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- ''Africa Unite'' (Mango CIDM 1119/512 173-2, 1997) *''Eastern European Journeys'' (library music, Bruton BRR59, 1998) *

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- ''Hope'' (Women of Faith, Integrity Music 14072, 1998) *''Spirit of Ireland'' (Versailles Records 493031, 1999 - tracks from ''Ireland'') *Continuo - ''Meditations on

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'' (Six Degrees Records 657036 3003-2, 1999) *

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- ''Euphoria'' (Six Degrees Records 657036 1015-2, 1999) *''Celtic World, Vol.1 & 2'' ( Laserlight (label) 24343, 1999) *''Celtic Tranquility'' ( Laserlight (label)21513, 1999) *''Celtic Dream'' (Delta Distribution 21510, 1999) *''Mystic Ireland'' (Delta Distribution 13303, 1999 - two tracks from ''Ireland'') *''Meditation'' (library music, Chappelle AV CHAPAV158, 2000) *''State of Grace: The Music of Paul Schwartz'' (Windham Hill 01934115652, 2000) *''

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(soundtrack)'' (Varèse Sarabande 80812, 2000) *Bob Holroyd - ''A Different Space'' (Six Degrees Records 657036 1030-2, 2000) *''War Images'' (library music, Bruton BR-0361, 2001) *

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- ''Troubador'' (K-Tel ECD 3390, 2001) *

- ''Beautiful My Child'' (Six Degrees Records 657036 1045-2, 2001) *''Zoo Collection: Celtic Moments'' (Sony Music Distribution 986213, 2002) *

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- ''

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'' (Mercury 04400630802, 2002) *''Mystic Earth'' (Time Music 133, 2002) *

Russell Watson Russell Watson (born 24 November 1966) is an English crossover/popular singer, almost in the tenor range, who has released singles and albums of both quasi-operatic-style and pop songs. He began singing as a child, and became known after per ...

- '' Encore (Russell Watson album)'' (Decca 12688, 2002) *''Celtic: Golden Greats'' (Disky MP 905166, 2002) *''Early History'' (library music, Bruton BR-0404-2, 2003) *''Celtic Spirit - Celtic & World Music'' ( Laserlight (label) 36 172, 2003 - track from ''Ireland'') *''World Flavours: Impressions of Ireland'' (Disky OR 644372, 2003) *''Middle Eastern Journeys'' (library music, Bruton BR-0428, 2004) *

Yoshida Brothers The are Japanese shamisenist musicians who have released several albums on the Domo Records label. The two brothers are performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 19 ...

- ''Yoshida Brothers II'' (Domo 73032, 2004) *''

Laws of Attraction ''Laws of Attraction'' is a 2004 romantic comedy film directed by Peter Howitt, based on a story by Aline Brosh McKenna and screenplay by Robert Harling and McKenna. It stars Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore. Plot High-powered divorce atto ...

(soundtrack)'' (La-La Land Records 1019, 2004) *

John Tavener Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious music, religious works. Among his best known works are ''The Lamb (Tavener), The Lamb'' (1982), ''The ...

- '' The Veil of the Temple'' (RCA Red Seal 66154, 2005) *''

The Last King of Scotland (film) ''The Last King of Scotland'' is a 2006 historical drama film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock. Based on Giles Foden's 1998 novel, its plot depicts the dictatorship of Ugandan President Idi Amin ...

(soundtrack)'' (Rounder 9071, 2006) *

- ''Troubador/Live at the Ventnor Winter Gardens'' (CD+DVD, Edsel EDSX 3007, 2008) *

Faryl Smith Faryl Smith (born 23 July 1995) is a British soprano who performs opera, classical and classical crossover music. Smith rose to fame after appearing on the second series of the ITV television talent show ''Britain's Got Talent'' in 2008 as a ...

- ''

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'' (Decca 2722167, 2009) *''Classic Love/The Ultimate Ballads Album'' (Decca 001246802, 2009) *''Mediterranean & Near East'' (library music, Amphonic Music AVF-125, 2010) *''Ireland'' (library music, Amphonic Music, 2010) *Kalamus - ''Bronze'' (private issue, 2011) *''

The First Grader ''The First Grader'' is a 2011 Biographical film, biographical drama film directed by Justin Chadwick. It stars Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, and Tony Kgoroge. The film is inspired by the true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan farmer who enrolled ...

(soundtrack)'' (Varèse Sarabande 3020670992, 2011) * Paul Schwartz - ''State of Grace'' (Valley Entertainment/Windham Hill Records VWH 210172, re-issued 2011) *

Nightwish Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka Neval ...

- ''

Imaginaerum ''Imaginaerum'' is the seventh studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was released on 30 November 2011 by Scene Nation Oy and Sony Music in Finland, then on 2 December in Nuclear Blast in the rest of Europe and Roadrunner Recor ...

'' (Nuclear Blast NB 29930, 2011) *''

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'' is a 2011 British romantic comedy drama film directed by Lasse Hallström. The film stars Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked. Based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Paul Tor ...

(soundtrack)'' (Lakeshore Records LKS 342562, 2012) *''Celtic Lands'' (library music, SOHO Music, 2013) *''(Never Work With) Kids & Animals'' (library music, Boost TV 011, 2014) *''Salaam Dubai: Oriental Music from tradition to modernity'' (Melmax Music, 2014 - track from ''Safar'') *

Thighpaulsandra Timothy Lewis – best known by the stage name Thighpaulsandra – is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. He began his career working with Julian Cope in the late ...

- ''

The Golden Communion ''The Golden Communion'' is the sixth album by Thighpaulsandra, released on 4 September 2015. It marks Thighpaulsandra's return to solo work after nearly a decade of touring with Spiritualized, Elizabeth Fraser and Wire (band), Wire. The album p ...

'' (Editions Mego EMEGO 207CD, 2015, duduk on "The Foot Garden") *''

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(television soundtrack)'' (Silva Screen SILCD 1488, 2015) *''Fragile Earth'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-011, 2018) *''Christmas 1'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-019, 2018) *''World Traveller - Africa'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-036, 2018) *''World Traveller - India'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-037, 2018) *''World Traveller - Celtic Journey'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-038, 2018) *''World Traveller - Near & Middle East'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-040, 2018) *''World Traveller - China, Indonesia & Japan'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-042, 2018) *''The Ancient World'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-048, 2018) *''World Mystery and Wonder'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-062, 2018) *''The Medieval Era'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-079, 2018) *''World Adventure'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-091, 2018) *''Destination Asia'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-098, 2018) *''100 Greatest Promos'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-100, 2018) *''World Percussion'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-110, 2018) *''Tudor & Renaissance'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-122, 2018) *''Middle East & Central Asia'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-148, 2018 *''Upbeat World 1'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-190, 2018) *''Upbeat World 2'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-191, 2018) *''Japan'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-193, 2018) *''100 Greatest Promos 2'' (library music, Production Music Online PMOL-200, 2018)

Filmography

*2009: '' Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements'' *2015: '' Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales'' (DVD)

Sources

Official website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Mont 1950 births Living people British jazz musicians Canterbury scene Alumni of the Royal College of Music British Subud members National Health members Uriel (band) members Gilgamesh (band) members

Biography

Early years

Rock musician (1968–1976)

World musician (1977–present)

Activist

Multi-instrumental abilities

Work in energy provision

Family life

Discography

Solo

With the World Wind Band (Dirk Campbell and Jan Hendrickse)

With Uriel/Arzachel

With Egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the ...

With National Health National Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, including gui ...

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Filmography

Sources

References

With
Egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the ...

With
National Health National Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, including gui ...