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As my parents met while singing in a classical choir, I (André
Kamer
) was raised on classical music and was a regular
visitor of concerts by the time I was ten years old.
At the age of eleven, Elementary School brought me into contact
with pop music. Coincidently (the year being 1973) a lot of the
pop music of that time had their roots in classical music in one
way or another.
I took more and more to pop and rock music and lost interest in
"true" classical music.
In the years to follow my taste evolved from (glam)rock via hardrock
to symphonic rock and from there I came full circle, back to classical
music again by the time I was nineteen.
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I always had been fascinated with playing a musical instrument
and every now and again I had experimented on piano or organ.
Inspired by symphonic rock band Rush
(mainly by their albums: "Hemispheres", "Permanent Waves" and "Moving
Pictures") I bought an electrical guitar (in 1983) and learned how
to play. My goal: writing my own music.
In 1987 I founded the studio band Longshanks.
Between 1989 and 1993 we recorded some 10 songs, which are currently
(after much delay) being digitised for release on CD. Some of them
are already represented here on the Symphonic
Rock page along with some more recent material.
I've also taken part in several one-time projects (mostly live)
and recently in a band called Masters
of Periodicity.
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From the beginning of the nineties I also ventured into classical
music, inspirations here were Bach, Verdi and
Mahler. Many of my compositions have been labeled 'soundtrack'
material (which isn't very strange, considering my fascination with
both images and music).
Another major project in recent years has been the writing of a
Requiem, which still needs some orchestration to be done. One (instrumental)
part of this Requiem is represented here on the Classical
Music page
A recent project was a sort of sidestep: after a performance as
DJ in Tivoli (Utrecht) at a concert by Camel, I did a remix
of some tracks of Queensr˙che's "Operation Mindcrime"
Another recent/ongoing project is the writing of a "Bridal
Suite"
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