Gordon’s music has been categorized both by its peripatetic, eclectic curiosity and by its rootedness in European compositional tradition. Since he is a polymath and not a one-note artist, it is difficult to summarize his work and any short account must leave out much.
Unlike many of the composers of the generation who were touched by this emerging style, Mr. Gordon was a competent working musician who could pay his rent playing in popular bands. He was already a sophisticate, having studied the mechanics of film composition at USC, jazz at Berklee School of Music, and electronic music at San Diego and subsequently Mills College. Having lived as a teenager in Germany and in Los Angeles, he comprehended both European intellectual trends and American pop culture.
His Love of Life Orchestra (better known as LOLO), with its soap-opera name suggesting an embrace of the trashy, played lean, rigorous, instrumental miniatures whose timbre dispensed with the high seriousness that plagued new music of the day. Though experimental in outlook, it evoked the fun of early ’60s r&b and rock combos like King Curtis’s Kingpins or the Ventures, as well as the thumping timbral palette of the then-popular orchestral disco records.
Peter Gordon/LOLO’s myspace
Источник: lastfm.ru
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