MUSIC: Brian Wilson. Philip Glass. J.J.Cale. Riceboy Sleeps. Biosphere. FM3. Sigur Ros. Delius. Bombay Dub Orchestra. Jan & Dean. Satie. Kula Shaker. Jacqueline du Pre. Laraaji. Harold Budd. The Orb. Ry Cooder. Bob Dylan. Edward Elgar. Elvis Presley. Mozart. Blind Willie Johnson. Bombay Dub orchestra.
Sheila Chandra. Son House. Brian Eno. Vangelis. Thomas Koner. Tangerine Dream. Jean Michael Jarre. Peter Green. Arvo Part. Aphex Twin. Frank Zappa. Captain Beefheart. Vaughan Williams.
HEROES: Jacqueline du Pre. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Bob Dylan. H.P.Lovecraft. Tony Hancock.His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Edward D Wood Jr. Paul Oliver. Elvis Presley. Edgar Allan Poe.
Bela Lugosi. Sam Phillips. Forrest J Ackerman.
MOVIES: The Godfather. Midnight Cowboy. The Wicker Man (original) Scarface. Plan 9 from Outer Space. Baraka. Desperado. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) One from the Heart. T.V Planet Earth. Strutter. Louis Theroux.
Kelvin Smith is a well known and respected lead & slide guitarist who for over 40 years has played in many bands around the South Wales area, White Light, Greedy Fly, Ray Phillips Woman, Blooze Barrell..as well as duo and solo performances...also known the World over as an ambient musician and composer with five solo albums to his name. Kelvin is featured in the latest issue of SEQUENCES magazine, talking about his NEW c.d. release ' PERSIAN '...available on the EMMA label. Also available the chill-out compilation c.d. ' RECLINING MUSIC ' on Farfield Records.
Kelvin's debut c.d. 'LAPIS LAZULI' was released to rave reviews in the late 90's on the EMMA label, which was followed up a year later with the follow-up 'GALAXY GATE'. He also featured on a special project c.d. 'THE SKY GOES ALL THE WAY HOME' which was released world-wide on VoicePrint Records, in company with such artists as Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman, Roy Harper, and Biosphere. Kelvin was invited to perform at the annual VANGELIS convention in London in 2000 and has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio Derby's 3 hour show 'Soundscapes' as a guest of Ashley Franklin.
Hey Kelvin...............Hope your well.....nice backdrop ( I used that for earthbase1 track).....loads of stuff been happening & labels chasing me now with contracts...your looking cool as ever .....your music is as always simply stunning & cosmic.
My email is still the same: pauliescab@yahoo.com Drop me a line, miss talking to you as we did so often in the past. Hope all is well... love to Jan - a huge hug to you! Love, Paul