Jon Keliehor at Luminous-Music.com

Jon Keliehor’s music bridges cultures, creating links between percussion instruments from around the world, Indonesian gamelan, and experimental domains. His extensive involvement in dance, theatre and film has produced a highly ‘visual’ music used by performance artists and dance companies in the UK, USA and Venezuela. Transformed with a hyper-real attention to the detail of percussion sounds, Keliehor's music redefines the use of percussion instruments. He employs a handful of deceptively simple melodic instruments to create a complex array of sound and texture.The music that results is wide ranging and mostly contemporary.

"On listening, many are puzzled about how to categorize the music properly. I have noticed that even though this music may be highly regarded by shamans, venomous snakes and twigsmen, new converts seem to survive the experience with good reports. The jury is still out, but the fan base seems to grow day by day. More importantly this music is a surreal kaleidoscope of aural landscapes and harmonic possibilities."

Edward Shepard

RESTLESS PATHWAYS

Percussionist: Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Drummer: West Coast psychedelic groups Daily Flash, Bodine

Composer, percussionist: London Contemporary Dance Theatre

Director: Percussion Research Ensemble, Diorama London

Performer: Lindsay Kemp Theatre Company, LCDT

Artistic Director: Dream House

Film Music: Dancers, Class, Troy Game, Melissa’s Lullaby, Impermanence

Director: Luminous Music Studios (Seattle)

Music Production: Lisa Lyon’s Icons Of The Divine

Percussionist: Cornish College of the Arts/Dance

Composer, performer: Gamelan Pacifica, Gamelan Naga Mas

Composer, performer: Venezuelan dance company DanzaHoy

Director Luminous Music (Glasgow)

Recordings of his music have been published on Touch, Indipop/Virgin Records, ATV-Bruton Music, What Next?/Non Sequiter Records, O.O. Disks and Luminous Music.

The divergence of his musical direction has provided a large catalogue of recorded music, much of it experimental, non-mainstream, compositions for dance, theatre, film, TV, etc. His compositions emerged in 1972 and by 1985 he had written music for most contemporary dance companies in London. Located at The Diorama, Regents Park, many creative opportunities and collaborations led him in a wide variety of musical directions during this time. His long time interest in the tonalities of gongs and bells brought an affinity to Indonesian music, and the music of SE Asia. The music within the recordings East Meets West, DreamHouse, and Celestial Nile were turning points that have seeded many new areas of composition.

The Luminous Music collection presents this diverse and ongoing range of music.