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(Clicka qua per la versione Italiana)
Italian-Swiss disc jockey
Robert Miles (born Roberto Concina)
invented the memorable refrain of
Children,
a simple melodic piano pattern surrounded by floating strings and synthesizers
and propelled by a disco beat.
That international million-seller established a new trend in melodic dance
music, shifting the emphasis from the beat and the drugs back to the emotions.
Dreamland (Arista, 1996) flies in orbit with a number of similar
melodic dance tracks, each characterized by an intriguing diversion, whether
the Morricone-style female vocalizing of Fantasya
or the impressionistic new-agey piano brooding of Landscape
the symphonic melodramatic pop theme of In My Dreams
or the jovial fairy-tale lullaby of Princess Of Light
Miles' tunes are not too different from Richard Clayderman's
piano ballads.
23am (Arista, 1998) is a far inferior follow-up.
For Organik (Shakti, 2001)
Miles enlisted an entire orchestra and coined a different kind of
ambient music, mostly influenced by Tibetan mantras and zen meditation
(Paths, with echoes of drum'n'bass and a deluge of exotic instruments),
but solidly anchored to the western musical tradition and with his trademark
slowly unfolding melodies (Endless, Trance Shapes).
Miles_Gurtu (2004) was a collaboration with Trilok Gurtu.
Th1rt3en (2011) was his venture into jazzy prog-rock, helped by musicians like Robert Fripp.
Robert Miles died in 2017 at the age of 47.
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