Morgan Fisher

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Created on: 31 Jan 2007
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Come here to find out more about the illustrious English keyboardist and composer. Find out about his storied career, with artistes as diverse as Queen, Mott the Hoople, Alan Holdsworth, Third Ear...

Morgan Fisher is an English keyboard player/composer/producer resident in Tokyo, whose unusual career has included a remarkable variety of activities. Currently he produces music in his compact, high-tech home studio, using samplers and computers to produce a highly individual blend of ambient/world/minimal music with a refined and contemplative quality. Influences that appear in his work may range from Miles Davis to Terry Riley, Erik Satie, Nino Rota, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Harold Budd, and Augustus Pablo. A rich yet delicate brew, created through his use of obscure software and very shiny recording technology. He's been at it since the late 60's - in those days samplers and MIDI were not even dreamed of, yet he managed through the laborious use of tape loops and early synthesizers to produce numerous recordings, a nicely contradictory mix of spirituality and a humourous punk mentality.

Often his career had him treading the boards with some of the world leaders in rock music. These experiences were enjoyable and exciting ways to learn his craft, but they were collaborations rather than direct expressions of his musical individuality. Since he turned 50 on the first day of the new millennium, he feels more on track than ever. His work (both in sound and in visual images) is harking back to the very first things that interested him as a rather introverted boy growing up in London. The beauty of nature glimpsed through a microscope; little creatures brought home in a jar from his daily solo walks down to the ponds and rivers; the shimmering Debussy-like arrangements of the crackly old French chanson records his parents owned; his grandmother's out-of tune piano, on which he tinkled away bemused and fascinated from the age of six; the sounds of seagulls and waves on the shore at Broadstairs; the world discovered in a grain of sand. His unusual life has enriched him and he continues to share his discoveries in his own unique ways.

His official website is here: www.morgan-fisher.com

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  • MaPey

    his collaboration with Roedelius was/is great; such a good sound

    June 2008

  • ydebru

    http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html On The Edge, a BBC series of programmes about improvisation in music worldwide, with writer and narrator, Derek Bailey.

    September 2007

  • ydebru

    [Steaming Coils] this is too good to be true! i was a minor player in this band. http://www.last.fm/music/Steaming+Coils/Never+Creak http://www.last.fm/music/Steaming+Coils/the+tarkington+table http://www.last.fm/music/Steaming+Coils/breaded http://www.last.fm/music/Steaming+Coils/Songs+Everyone+Knows Free downloads of Steaming Coils mp3's! From the very source itself! Hurrah!!!!!

    August 2007

  • ydebru

    check out ebay or gemm.com, do a search, and see what comes up.

    May 2007

  • scrantonian

    anybody know how much a miniatures micropack would sell for? i dont have one... just wondering.

    May 2007

  • ydebru

    I've never had the opportunity! you are a fortunate one.

    February 2007

  • shinnygogo

    I remember hearing about his free shows in Japan...looks like he charges now (1000 yen)! Have you been to his shows at Superdelux in Nishiazabu ?

    February 2007

  • ydebru

    A Tale Of Two Fishers. Uncalled for Knife- It was the guessed-at crimes, it was the thirst for rhymes, it was the cage of random, it was the stage of boorishness, it was the black cock of beef, it was the geek shock of abnormality, it was the treason of Blight, it was the frisson of Loch Ness, it was the king of dope, it was the splinter of false hair, we had addressing before pus, we had rum

    February 2007

  • ydebru

    slings before us... Morgan: Mott /// Matthew: Procol /// Both play keyboards, & both are British.

    February 2007
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