MUSIC CATALOGUE
JON KELIEHOR COMPOSITIONS
MUSIC COMPOSITIONS: JON KELIEHOR
The uniqueness of Jon KeliehorÕs compositions has centred around an instinct that seeks out percussion instruments as prime tonal sources. His music is a restless catalogue of newly discovered and sometimes nearly forgotten pathways within percussion music. It is an exploration of percussionÕs raw elements transformed into musical form. This collection of highly original music contains many different approaches to that musicality.
Between 1970-1985, Jon Keliehor had written music for most contemporary dance companies in London. During this time many varied creative opportunities and collaborations led him to explore pathways in a wide variety of musical directions.
During his return to America 1985-96, he developed contacts with the dance company, DanzaHoy in Venezuela, and with Gamelan Pacifica in Seattle. His works diversified again. The affiliation with Gamelan Pacifica deepened his long time interest in the tonalities of gongs, bells and the music of SE Asia. Here he began to write pieces modeled on Indonesian music styles, integrating various elements into his already diverse palette of experimental and percussion rich composition. The music within the recording Celestial Nile was a turning point, seeded many new areas of composition.
The divergence of his musical direction has provided him with a large catalogue of recorded music, much of it experimental, non-mainstream, compositions for dance, theatre, film, TV, etc. Some of these works have been published on Touch, Indipop/Virgin Records, ATV-Bruton Music Library, What Next?/Non Sequiter Records, O.O. Disks and Luminous Music Recordings.
2008
RADIANCE
KOTEKAN
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CD RELEASE
TRANCE GONG
Luminous Music LMCD 015
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CD RELEASE
TROY GAME
Luminous Music LMCD 014
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CD RELEASE
TROY GAME
Luminous Music LMCD 013
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CD RELEASE
IN DEEP
Luminous Music LMCD 012
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2007
SUSTAINED IN GRACE
ANOTHER DAY
IN DEEP
SEPARATE WAYS
DOWN LOW
33 STEPS
SPARKLE
FEELING DARK
2006
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CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 009
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SUBCONTINENT
2005
ABYSS
DOMAINE I, II, III
WOMAN MAN NATURE
Premier performance:
Float Sound Objects
Gamelan Naga Mas
Gilmorehill G12, Glasgow
17 June 2005
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CD release
Gamelan Naga Mas
LMCD 008
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CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 007
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2004
SMARADAHANA
For Gamelan Naga Mas
SELUNDING SULING
For Gamelan Naga Mas
MUSIC FOR TOTAL RUBBISH
Documentary Film:
Total Rubbish
by Paul Welsh
including: King Rama, Unfolding The Way,
Blackfoot, Smaradahana, Little Families, Forest Queen, Trance
Gong, Mechanical Family, Falling Up
BLACKFOOT
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CD release
Luminous Music
limited edition, not-for-sale version,
available on special request
LMCD 006
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2003
SELUNDING
For Gamelan Naga Mas
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CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 005
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CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 004
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CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 003
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2002
FALLING UP
DAWN
PERFECTION
FALLING UP (incorporating Ultradidj)
Premier performance:
FALLING UP
Signy Jakobsdottir & Susan Worsfold
The Arches New Works Festival, Glasgow
21-23 Sept 2001
2001
ENTRANCE
DREAMING
2000
LIFE CYCLE
Choreography: Royston Maldoom
Dance United
Premier performance: 04 Nov 2000
Tramway
DEPARTURE
for LIFE CYCLE
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CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 002
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1999
CREATE MUSIC
CD Release: LMCD 002
January 2000
Compositions / Recordings: 28 June
– 26 July 1999
Mixdowns: July - August 1999
THE JOURNEY
WATER POOLS
GOLDEN CASTLE
WINDS OF CHANGE
ANCIENT MYSTERIES
EQUINOX
WALKING ON THE STARS
TREASURE HUNT
SKY DANCER
RHYTHM MAKER
EARTH PULSE
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CD release
Compositions / Recordings: 28 June
– 26 July 1999
Mixdowns: July - August 1999
Luminous Music
LMCD 001
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1998
MUSIC FOR SUBCONSCIOUS
Choreography by Christine Railton
1997
TEMPLE VII
IMPERMANENCE
Music for film by Karry Fefer
1995
BURNING SPIRIT
Jon Keliehor and Jarrad Powell
INVOCATION FLAME
IGNITION
CREATION FLAME
Premier performance:
Balinese Ramlila Celebration
BumberShoot Festival, Seattle
04 August 1995
1994
SPIRAL IN ALCYONE . E
SHINING
TWINKLING
MOST BEAUTIFUL
ELOQUENT
IBIS
SWARTHY
ALCYONE
Premier performance:
Composers/Choreographers
Gamelan Pacifica
Cornish College, Seattle
17 June 1994
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CD release
TRANCE GONG (1994)
Gamelan Pacifica
Nonsequiter/What Next? Recordings
Albuquerque NM 87103
Including: Peaches Of
Immortality (1991), Small Of My Back (1990)
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1993
OCEAN OF DREAMS
Aka MUSIC FOR THE ANDROGYNE JOURNAL
PATH
EYE OF THE SYBIL
UNFOLDING THE WAY
SPIRAL POOLS
SARON SUNDA
APOLLO
DOMAIN/FOREST QUEEN
OCEAN OF DREAMS
THE NIGHT
VISIONS
DREAM LANDSCAPES
DEPARTURE/JOURNEY
NORTH
LONG AGO
ILLUMINATION
WAITING IN THE FOREST
BRIDE AND GROOM
LONG DISTANCE
NIGHTS END
Music for the unreleased audio-poetry
recording:
(Same titles as Ocean of Dreams)
The Androgyne Journal
Poetry by James Broughton
Music by Jon Keliehor
1992
HARMONIC JUNGLE
for DanzaHoy
Zona Torrida
ZONA TORRIDA
OPENING THE WAY
INVOCATION
YOUNG WOMAN
KOTEKAN
FLOTATION
SIXES
WOMEN’S WORK (LAS
MUJERES)
MEN’S WORK (LOS HOMBRES)
REST (OCIO)
RITUAL DANCE
for Danza Hoy, Caracas Venezuela
performances:
Expo Seville 24, 25 July
Sao Paolo, Brazil 4, 5 July
Caracas, Teatro Teresa Carreno/Rios Reyna
21-24 May
San Jose, Costa Rica 9-10 April
Caracas, Teatro Teresa Carreno/Rios Reyna
5-6 April
1991
MONKEY’S IMMORTAL PEACHES
for Gamelan Pacifica
PAPER CRANES
for Chaitania
Hein
Alim Azim Productions
GONG JULUNGGUL
Jon Keliehor,
Jarrad Powell, Signy Jakobsdottir, Tom Fallat
PEACHES OF IMMORTALITY
for Gamelan Pacifica Trance Gong CD
SALIENCE
For choreography by Amy Chavasse
BLIND RITUALS
For Keith Jefferson
1990
EL JARDIN DE LOS MISTERIOS
Performances:
DanzaHoy
Teatro Teressa Carreno
Paseo Colon, Los Caobos
Caracas DF Venezuela
3-7 May 1990
Including:
FORGOTTEN FAITH-1989 (9:50), CELESTIAL
NILE-1986 (24:00), SACRED LANGUAGE-1988 (13:35), IBIS
HEART-1990 (5:00), ETERNITY-1987 (4:10), TEMPLE VII-1996 (7:
30), ROTATION-1990 (1:40), EVE SERPENT-1990 (6:15), TRIPLE DOOR
OF PERCEPTION-1990 (0:40), GENITALIA OF THE RAIN FOREST-1990
(07:30), HIEROGLYPH-1990 (5:50), TRANCE GONG MUSIC-1990 (4:15),
PROTO ADAM-1988 (15:06)
ROTATION
EVE SERPENT
TRIPLE DOOR OF PERCEPTION
GENITALIA OF THE RAIN FOREST
HIEROGLYPH
TRANCE GONG MUSIC
THREE EXPOSURES
Jon Keliehor,
Jarrad Powell, Signy Jakobsdottir, Tom Fallat
SMALL OF MY BACK
POLAND
RUDE AWAKENING
PRESENT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
FAMILY
SHADOW ICON
CIRCUS OF THE CHILD
MOTHER IN DARKNESS
LULLABY OF LAMENT
STREET PEOPLE
FAMILY OF MAN
LITTLE FAMILIES
(aka BONDING RITUALS)
MECHANICAL FAMILY
REMEMBER MEN & MOON
Jon Keliehor,
Keith Jefferson
MUSIC FOR MELISSA’S LULLABY
music for film
Mellisa’s Lullaby
by Karry Fefer
MUSIC FOR THE RAMAYAMA
Jon Keliehor,
Signy Jakobsdottir
for Chaitania Hein
Alim Azim Productions
1989
FORGOTTEN FAITH
AT THE END
TRANCE GONG
Jon Keliehor,
Jarrad Powell, Signy Jakobsdottir, Tom Fallat
for Gamelan Pacifica
PRINCE AND PRINCESS
for Pat Graney
Pat Graney Dance Company, Seattle
SERPENT DRUMS
1988
SACRED LANGUAGE
for Joanna Mendle-Shaw
Spectrum Dance Company
IBIS HEART
PROTO ADAM
GONG KUNDALI SHAKTI
for Gamelan Pacifica
MUSIC FOR QUARENTA GRADOS EN LA SOMBRE
for DanzaHoy
Caracas Venezuela
Including: KUNDALI SHAKTI, WHEEL OF
FORTUNE, WINGED SERPENT
THE LONG FORM (NEW IMPROBABLE BIRDS)
JJ-THEME MUSIC 1
Jon Keliehor,
Peter Pendras
JJ-THEME MUSIC 2
Jon Keliehor,
Jon Kertzer
THE TUNNEL
ZACARY’S DREAM
NOCTURNE
BEDTIME BLISS
DREAMS
GONG KUNDALI SHAKTI
WINGED SERPENT
WHEEL OF FORTUNE
1987
THE SIRIUS MYSTERY: DOGON
HIEROGLYPH
ETERNITY
1986
TIME IS A CONTINUAL CREATION
CELESTIAL NILE
First Performance:
ICONS OF THE DIVINE
Lisa Lyon Company
Cal State University,Northridge, Los
Angeles
07 November 86
UP THE NILE
1985
ANTHEM FOR RON KOVIC
Jon Keliehor,
Gary Hurst, Lisa Lyon
DIAL-A-HUNK’S REVENGE
RETURN
Jon Keliehor, Nathan Stein, Ren Hincks
RETURN
WAR MEDALS
SEDUCTION SPIRIT
STREETS OF FEAR
CEMETARY GATE
REPENTANCE
DEPARTURE
Music for film:
Return To The Scene of the Crime
Marylin Tobin
AFI, Los Angeles
11 March 1985
NEW ROTATION
45 DEGREES
90 DEGREES
180 DEGREES
BREATH
FROZEN SLICES
1984
TRANCE FORMATIONS
Live recording from Dream House Concert
1983
Released on TRAVEL T4
Touch Records, London
1984
RIGOLETTO ROCKETS
for Keely Garfield
Keely Garfield Dancers
ULTRADIDJ
MANJONI I
EAST MEETS WEST
Jon Keliehor,
Orlando Kimber, *Eddy Sayer
1000 YELLOW BICYCLES
PEKING STATION
KING RAMA
ONE LANGUAGE
GARUDA
LUMINOUS FORCES 1
LUMINOUS FORCES 2
LF STING 1
LF STING 2
GAGAKU
MONGOLIAN DESERT
HEAVENLY CLOUDS
CLOUD MUSIC
ICE PALACE
KYOTO GARDENS *
HAIKU
POTALA TEMPLE
1983
TIME TOWER
For Liana Nyquist, Ingegard Lonroth
Dance Tales, Exeter
SIRENS
HAT DANCE
CORRIDOR OF TIME
SPHINX
PRIVATE MOMENTS
TIME DANCE
DIRECTIONS OF SPACE
SNAKE SKIN
SALT CIRCLE
TIME DANCE
THE EAGLE
DREAMHOUSE (Live
Performance)
Commonwealth Institute
including: DREAM GUARDIANS, THAT OLD
DEVIL TIME, THE DREAM HOUSE, THE GATE, EROTIC WINDS, ANYTHING
GOES IN HEAVEN, TRANCE FORMATIONS
THE GATE
TRANCE FORMATIONS
EROTIC WINDS
DEVIANT PERSONALITIES IN THE DREAMTIME
INSTANT DAGUERRE
Performance:
Instant Daguerre / The Resurrection of the
Diorama As Easy As 1 – 2 - 3
1982
DREAM GUARDIANS
THAT OLD DEVIL TIME
THE DREAM HOUSE
ANYTHING GOES IN HEAVEN
THE AUDITION
For BBC 2
‘Dancers’ Episode 3
“The Audition” (project 50 LDL D603L)
Music recordings/mixdowns 12 –15 May
1982, BBC Lansdowne Studios
Musicians: Jon Keliehor, Jhalib
Millar, Roger Harrison, Chris Karan
First transmission: BBC-TV, Aug-Sept
1982
WARM UP
ARRIVAL OF JULIA
ARRIVAL OF RITA
WARM UP LAST PART
FIRST AUDITION
SECOND AUDITION
THIRD AUDITION
FOURTH AUDITION
DANCER'S DISCUSSION
TAG
TAI CHI 1
CONVERSATION
BALLET CLASS
CONTEMPORARY CLASS 1
NIMBUS DUET
NIMBUS DUET CONTINUATION
NIMBUS INTRO
NIMBUS TRIO
MONTAGE 1
MONTAGE 2
MONTAGE 3
MONTAGE 4
MONTAGE 5
CONTEMPORARY CLASS 2
MONTAGE 5 END
CAFE SALSA 1
THE ARGUMENT
CAFE SALSA 2
TRANSITION
NIMBUS QUARTET/DUET
AMY/JASMIN
DISCO
FACE TWIST DUET
IMPROVISATION 1
IMPROVISATION 2
IMPROVISATION 3
TAI CHI 2
LEWIS & AMY
NIMBUS DUET 2
MUSIC FINALS 1
STEVE'S SOLO
WES' SOLO
MUSIC FINALS 2
AMY'S SOLO
JASMIN'S SOLO
1981
SALSA UNIVERSE
Broadcast: BBC-TV
BBC 2 “Dancers”
Episode 1 - “Judah’s Dance”
First transmission: BBC-TV, 1982
Additional details:
For BBC 2 “Dancers”
Episode 1 - “Judah’s Dance” (project 50
LDL D601Y)
Music recorded/mixdown: 26 Nov 1981,
BBC Lime Grove studios
Musicians: David Heath - flute, Roy
Davies - piano, Robin Clayton - bass,
Roger Harrison - timbales, Jon Keliehor
– conga drums
CLASS V (recorded
version for three musicians)
for Robert Cohan
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
IMPROBABLE EXOTIC BIRDS
for NIN Dance Company
Including: LAUNDRETTE DREAMING, BIRD
BATUCADA, INVISIBLE
OPPONENTS, VOICE MASK OVER PRIMO FUTURO,
SOLO MUSIC SERIES 2
THE WASHERWOMAN AND GOD
for Theatre of Lies
LAUNDRETTE DREAMING
TROY GAME (MUSIC
FOR)
Recording for Film:
Independent Film Producers Association
for Channel 4 and worldwide
Sadlers Wells Theatre
20 November 1981
THE HARE
for Theatre of Lies
Lyng Fayre Performance
VOICE MASK OVER PRIMO FUTURO
for Liana Nyquist
INVISIBLE OPPONENTS
for Beyhan Fowkes
ID Dance Company
MIRROR BALL
EARTH GODDESS
INSECT COMMUNITIES
INVISIBLE OPPONENTS
MAN OF WORDS
VOICE BUBBLES
MIRROR VISION
POTENTIAL SPACE
THE BIG BANG
BACKWARD SPACE
OTHER WORLDS
INFINITE IMPROBABILITIES
(AND THE
RITUAL MUTILATION OF THE EGO)
for Theatre of Lies
at Cabaret Futura
BEYOND THE LAW
for Darshan Bhuller
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
premier: 12 May 1981
SPIRIT MUSIC
for Paul Douglas
The Burden
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
UGLY ONE
for MatchBox Theatre
RHYTHM DANCE
for Behan Fowkes
ID Dance
1980
MUSIC FOR TROY GAME
for Choreography by Robert North
Royal Ballet, London
Premier performance:
Royal Opera House
27 April 1980
CLASS V (performance
version for three musicians)
Premier performance:
Grand Theatre, Leeds
10 April 1980
1979
VARIATION X
for Chris Carter
London School of Contemporary Dance
SONGS AND SILENCES OF NIGHT
For Rosina Bonsu
London School of Contemporary Dance
VARIATION IX
For Beyhan Fowkes
ID Dance
THE JAKE
for John Ladle
MatchBox Theatre
TRANCE DANCE
Recording released:
The INDIpop compilASIAN Album
Virgin Records
1982
CREATION MYTH
Jon Keliehor,
Ron Rothfield
for Spirit Music Ensemble
NIGHT FIRE
for Stewart Arnold
Maas Movers
FULL MOON
for Spirit Music Ensemble
LIGHT WAVE
for Corrine Bougaard
Extemporary Dance Company
1978
INDIA SONG
for Stephen Giles
Extemporary Dance Company
MANY RIVERS
for Pat Banton
Maas Movers
MUSIC FOR ANDROMAQUE
for Gilberto Ruiz-Lang
London School of Contemporary Dance
ANCESTORAL
for Stewart Arnold
London School of Contemporary Dance
1977
CLASS IV (performance version for 7 musicians)
for Robert Cohan
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
MUSIC FOR EXTEMPORARY DANCE
for Geoffrey Powell
Extemporary Dance Company
1976
MELODY CYCLE
for Tara Rajkumar
CASSANDRA
for Di Tidswell
London School of Contemporary Dance
GODDESS OF DOGS
for Stewart Arnold
London School of Contemporary Dance
CLASS III (revised recording)
for Robert Cohan
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
THE CELEBRATION
for Larry Butler
Matchbox Theatre Company
1975
CLASS II (performance version for 4 musicians)
for Robert Cohan
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
CLASS I (recorded version)
for Robert Cohan
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
CLASS
for Robert Cohan
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
Generation of the music CLASS:
Class 30-31
July, 1-2 August 1975, Original Gala performances,
The Place, London
Class I Sept 1975 first
recording Theatre Project Sound, London
Class II 12-18 Nov 1975
performance version for 4 musicians,
premier Sadlers Wells Theatre, London
Class III Jan 1976 revised recorded
ElectraphonStudios, London,
for London Contemporary Dance Theatre tours
Class IV 17 November 1977
performance version for 7 musicians,
premier at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London
Class V 10 April 1980
performance version, three + musicians,
premier at Grand Theatre, Leeds
Class V 23 November 1981
recorded : Magritte Studios,
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, three + musicians,
for London Contemporary Dance Theatre tours
1974
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Jon Keliehor,
John Lewis
Studio G, London
Music Library:’Tombs of Space' and/or
'Schizophrenia.'
Used in Film : Shivers (1975) (David
Cronenberg)
(Canadian SOCAN Films, French SACEM Films)
PERCUSSION MUSIC FOR GOD KING
percussion sequences for film: God
King
director: Lester J Perras
1973
DUET FOR A MOTHER AND CHILD
for Mikloth Bond
London School of Contemporary Dance
MUSIC FOR PERCUSSION AND ELECTRONIC TAPE
for Ruth Posner
Royal Academy Dramatic Arts, London
1972
TEARFUL HISTORY
for Ross McKim
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
COLOUR ME ONE
for Joanna Gantz
London School of Contemporary Dance
WAITING
Jon Keliehor,
John Lewis
for Ruth Posner
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
QUASARS
Jon Keliehor,
John Lewis
for Bill Farrell
London Contemporary Dance Theatre
1971
ARUNDALE
1967
THE DAILY FLASH
GREEN ROCKY ROAD
Steve Lalor,
Don MacAlister, Jon Dennis Keliehor, Doug Hastings
Recording: I FLASH DAILY
Film :Targets, 1968, Peter Bogdanovich
USA BMI
GRIZZLY BEAR
Steve Lalor,
Don MacAlister, Jon Dennis Keliehor, Doug Hastings
Recording: I FLASH DAILY
USA BMI
BONNIE SHIP THE DIAMOND
Steve Lalor,
Don MacAlister, Jon Dennis Keliehor, Doug Hastings
Recording: I FLASH DAILY
USA BMI
1966
JACK OF DIAMONDS
Steve Lalor,
Don MacAlister, Jon Dennis Keliehor, Doug Hastings
Recording: I FLASH DAILY
USA BMI
1964
METALLIC CONTRASTS
for University of Washington Percussion
Ensemble
