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MUSIC CATALOGUE

JON KELIEHOR COMPOSITIONS
 
 
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MUSIC COMPOSITIONS:   JON KELIEHOR


The uniqueness of Jon Keliehor’s compositions has centred around an instinct to seek out percussion instruments as prime tonal sources. A great deal of his music has focused on the tranformation of percussion's tonal elements into musical form. His music is a restless catalogue of pathways, some newly discovered and some nearly forgotten, creating a diverse and changeable portfolio. This collection of 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 palette of diverse, percussion rich composition. The music within the recordings DreamHouse, East Meets West, Celestial Nile were turning points, seeding 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.





 
 

2009

PARADISE LOST

PUSH

AT THE EDGE

MOMENTS

ACROSS THE DIVIDE

I CAN'T EXPLAIN

2008

RADIANCE
for Gamelan Naga Mas

KOTEKAN DESCENDING

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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


* * * * * *
CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 009
* * * * * *

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

* * * * * *
CD release
Luminous Music
limited edition, not-for-sale version,
available on special request
LMCD 006
* * * * * *


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


* * * * * *
CD release
Luminous Music
LMCD 002
* * * * * *


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
* * * * * *


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