The Mood Modern - The story of two of the world's greatest recorded music libraries: KPM (1956-1977)

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Vocalion Books presents its publishing debut, The Mood Modern, which tells the story of two of the world's greatest recorded music libraries: KPM and Bruton Music.
The Mood Modern is three books in one, weaving together the separate strands of company history, biography and critical assessment of some of the most important music collectively produced by the KPM and Bruton libraries during a quarter century, spanning the years from 1956 to 1980. At the heart of the book, however, is the Phillips family, one of Britain's great music publishing dynasties.
The mid-1960s through the '70s have come to be regarded as library music's golden age. In Britain, it was when this somewhat mysterious branch of the music industry emerged from the chrysalis of its light music heritage into a new era of modern, colourful sounds. Robin Phillips played a fundamental role in this transformation when, in 1966, he established a new library - the KPM 1000 Series. Robin would also introduce several composers who quickly became some of the most successful names in the library music field: Keith Mansfield, Johnny Pearson, Syd Dale, Alan Hawkshaw, James Clarke, David Lindup, Brian Bennett and Steve Gray among others. And thanks to Robin's guidance, by the early '70s the 1000 Series had become one of the world's foremost libraries, its music a ubiquitous presence in countless films, documentaries, radio programmes and television series. But in 1977, at the height of his success, Robin Phillips left KPM for ATV Music - taking with him his right-hand man, Aaron Harry, and the major composers - where he formed the Bruton library under the auspices of his brother Peter, ATV Music's managing director.
Drawing on interviews with members of the Phillips family and many of the composers, recording engineers, musicians and staff of both libraries, The Mood Modern tells the remarkable inside story of how KPM and, subsequently, Bruton came to be dominant forces in library music.

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