Mike Batt Biography

A person who once began an organist in a strip club who has grown over time in a venerable composer - performer - conductor - producer, is certainly worthy of all respect. This compilation perfectly illustrates the versatility of Mr. Batt's talent. Seventeen sound paths are designed to reflect the most important milestones of the Maestro path. Most of the disk is the compositions of the period of the seventies, and this is understandable, because Mike reached his creative peak in the second half of the “golden decade”.

Therefore, the most striking songs and instrumental things in orchestral tones from the albums "Schizophonia" and "Tarot Suite" were taken into account in the first place when creating a selection. Of particular interest are the comments in the booklet from the author himself, of which, in particular, you can learn about the autobiographics of "Railway Hotel", find out that "The Ride To Agadir" turns out to be dedicated to the Moroccan uprising and tells of the imaginary battle of a foreign legion with representatives of local tribes.

Other planes of the writer genius Batt are lit in topics of the 10ths. This is the blues ballad of the English fantasy "Mona" with the conceptual plate "Waves", and the futuristic electronic disco withpass "Love Makes You Crazy" "Zero Zero", and the refinery and romantic elegy "Theme from Caravans", taken from the original, commercial successful The soundtrack "Caravans", which has become one of the undoubted luck of Mike.

Another curious chapter of his artistic biography is the sketch of “Children of the Sky”, which opens the pop -rock suite “The Hunting of the Snark”, inspired by the absurd agony in eight attacks of the “unbridled fantasist Lewis Carollah. Stylistically, she inherits the “schizophony” and “file tarot”, but with adjustment in the eighties. The creations of the era of the nineties are embodied on a release in the form of two extracts from the serial television animated series "The Dreamstone", the music for which, as it is easy to guess, was written by the same Mike Batt: this is a beautiful moderate orchestral number "Better than ARAM" with the party and vocal of the ubiquitous author, and, of course The same expressive duet with the magnificent Bonnie Tyler "Into the Sunset", stuffed with lyric motives in the best "happy" traditions of Disney tapes.

In general, a rather entertaining tour of the rainbow world of one of the brightest representatives of the art rok scene of foggy Albion.