{"id":14494,"date":"2025-07-28T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14494"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:49:26","slug":"john-gallen-improvisations-1-new-album-by-electronic-and-experimental-music-composer-producer-out-22nd-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14494","title":{"rendered":"JOHN GALLEN : &#8216;Improvisations 1&#8217; | new album by electronic and experimental music composer\/producer out 22nd August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JOHN-GALLEN--1024x929.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14495\" style=\"width:519px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JOHN-GALLEN--1024x929.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JOHN-GALLEN--300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JOHN-GALLEN--768x697.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JOHN-GALLEN-.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>John Gallen<\/strong>&nbsp;is an electronic and experimental composer and performer with a background in sound recording, music production and mixing for film and TV. \u2018Improvisations 1\u2019 documents his first year of writing and performing in these genres and features six works created using a Moog mother, thumb piano, kalimba and various found samples. Exemplifying his new approach, they emphasise improvisation, texture and the exploration of unconventional sound sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gallen&#8217;s illustrious career spans six decades of working in renowned studios worldwide, beginning in 1975 at Roundhouse Studios in London, where he assisted on the Queen album \u2018Night At The Opera\u2019, contributing to numerous overdubs and assisting on the album mix. This included its standout song, \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019.<br><br>That experience laid the foundations for a future working with a wildly diverse array of artists such as Uriah Heep, Osibisa, Marianne Faithfull, The Damned, George Benson, Billy Ocean, Mot\u00f6rhead, Simply Red, Go West, Maxi Priest, Aswad, Rick Astley, Boy George, Incognito, Haircut 100 and Sally Oldfield.<br><br>His expertise also extends into film music, mixing several scores for composer Jim Williams on notable films that have included the Ben Wheatley directed Down Terrace\u2019, \u2018Kill List\u2019, \u2018Sightseers\u2019 and \u2018A Field in England\u2019, plus the Julia Ducournau directed \u2018Raw\u2019. These projects have highlighted his skill in blending music with visual storytelling to enhance the cinematic experience.<br><br>2024 saw Gallen draw fresh inspiration from attending and performing at the Coastal Electronauts SEMS sessions in Whitstable, Kent, discovering fresh approaches to music making.&nbsp;<em>\u201cSome of the highlights of my career have been working with great musicians and record producers who embraced experimentation and the creation of new sounds in the studio in the years before computers and digital audio technology,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;he reflects, underscoring his own passion for innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"John Gallen - Chandigarh\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BUEaoofYFWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gallen&nbsp;is an electronic and experimental composer and performer with a background in sound recording, music production and mixing for film and TV. \u2018Improvisations 1\u2019 documents his first year of writing and performing in these genres and features six works created using a Moog mother, thumb piano, kalimba and various found samples. Exemplifying his new&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14494\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JOHN GALLEN : &#8216;Improvisations 1&#8217; | new album by electronic and experimental music composer\/producer out 22nd August 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14496,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions\/14496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}