IDENTIFICATION AND BIO:
Composer, Synthesist, Multi-Instrumentalist
Co-founded experimental band Port Said (1981-1984).
Co-founded band Other Skies (1985).
Recorded eleven solo albums of electronic "sonic constructions" (1984-1992).
The remarkable composer-synthesist Keeler was born in California, grew up in Florida, and moved to New York in the early 1970s. His musical career spanned the years 1981 to 1992, and at his death he was at the crest of his reputation as a musical innovator.
While still in his teens Keeler became a research associate with the Loch Ness Phenomenon Investigation at Drumnadrochit, Scotland in 1971, and joined an official expedition searching for the legendary Scottish animal. He maintained a lifelong interest in cryptozoology (the study of hidden/unknown animals), and said in a 1992 Omni Magazine article, "I don't know if they are all real, but I do think such creatures exist." He was a Member of the International Society of Cryptozoology, the International Fortean Organization and the World Ship Society.
He used the term "sonic constructions" for his solo electronic pieces. "I like to play this music one track at a time, note by note. That's why I call my work sonic constructions: The building process gives the music a human quality." Titus Levi, in a 1989 Keyboard Magazine article about him, responded:
"Keeler's approach is not only human it's meticulously human. He encodes and articulates an amazing degree of detail into each work, even those that sound simple and transparent on first listening. The amount of information, not to mention the assymetrical structure and sometimes frenetic rendering, puts the listener's ear through demanding calisthenics, but the workout returns excellent dividends. By the end of a tape, it is hard to remember where one started; only the sense of presence and discovery remain."
In 1981 Keeler co-founded the experimental electronic/acoustic/percussion band Port Said with Stefan Tischler, a prominent electronic musician who shared his admiration for Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Wire and Kraftwerk. The group performed at the Purple Barge and Pyramid Lounge in New York and released four albums Through Veils (1982), Eve of Departure (1983), Crossings (1983) and Traveller's Companion (1984) each progressing into a different style. Their single, Indian Ocean, Voyage 2/Trail of the Sphinx, found its way to the jukeboxes and dj booths of the New York club scene.
"The music on [Crossings and Traveller's Companion] is virtually indescribable. Imagine, if you will, Hassell, Byrne and Eno crossed with OMD, merged to a Phaedra-era TD sensibility bisected with a peculiar, Cluster/Kraftwerk motif..." (Darren Bergstein, "Keeler: A Tribute").
Other music by Port Said appeared on nine international compilation cassettes, and as soundtracks for two short video and film productions directed by Mike Manetta: Trail of the Sphinx (1983) and Parade '83 (presented at the 1983 New York Gay Film Festival and the 1984 San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Video Festival).
Bergstein writes: "A synth duo years ahead of their time, they were unable to compete with the more pop-oriented acts of the day such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Blancmange. Port Said's brand of early-‘80s electro-pop stretched the boundaries and limitations of the form to their maximum potential. Incorporating strange, exotic multi-timbral sounds, coupled to quasi-ethnic percussives, contemporary beatbox rhythms and cascading, unusual electronics, the duo were quite an anomaly in the New York music scene of 1981."
In 1985 Keeler co-founded the band Other Skies with guitarist Anton Tibbe, producing an album, Vistas (1988) and a single, Clearing at Dusk. He also composed music for The Creative Force, an evening-length work by choreographer Shelley Shepherd H., presented in New York at the Merce Cunningham Studio Theatre and Dance Theater Workshop.
After 1985 he turned his full attention to recording solo albums of his own music, working in his Serenity Studio in Jersey City, New Jersey. He used CD-loops, voiceffects, Rhodes Chroma Polaris, electronic drums, Vocalizer 1000, short-wave radio, melodica, treatments, synthesizer, electric guitar, sampler, damaged Autoharp, barijo, Omnichord, and the purring of his cat Grapefruit, among other instruments and sources.
Planet of Lovers (1984) and Legerdemain (1986) were privately released on cassette. In 1987 he and Landon Brown launched the recording company Great Orm Productions. They released the cassette Outward Signs in 1988, followed by the compact discs Autofocus (1988), The Present Link (1990) and Playing Field (1992). The recordings featured striking cover art, much of it created by artist friends such as Cassandra Kabler (Autofocus), John Ryan (Playing Field) and Michael Demoss (Outward Signs).
The Present Link, inspired by the Loch Ness creature Nessie and twelve of the world's other fabled monsters, included a booklet with the most famous photographs known of those animals. The alternative music magazine Option called the recording "a majestic, 1950s sci-fi soufflé." In the British New Hope International Review, Gerald England wrote, "Each piece creates an atmosphere to complement the creatures celebrated here. Our own Nessie is represented by a piece that has a halting pibroch intertwined with surreal electronics in an evocative simulation of mist over the loch. Other pieces feature the Yeti, Morgawr, the water monster seen in Falmouth Bay as recently as 1976 and others from around the world. Musically on a par with Holst's Planet Suite."
After Keeler's death, the Swedish label Multimood issued The Age of the Inventor (1993) and Trapped in the Hi-Fi Zone (1995). Three more recordings were digitally mastered for CD release by Keeler before his death Out of Body, Mode Gemini and Seeking a New Frontier and are slated for future release by Great Orm Productions.
Keeler died of AIDS in Jersey City, New Jersey at the age of 40 on September 25, 1992.
Nurit Tilles
WORKS:
Album titles in italics
*Port Said
**Other Skies
Adventures in Future Travel The Age of the Inventor
African Cowboy Legerdemain
Airborne Planet of Lovers
The Airbrush Loves the Canvas Outward Signs
Almas (Prehistoric Now) The Present Link
Along Misty Shores** Vistas
Alpha* Traveller's Companion
Alpine Lament The Playing Field
And the Clouds Held Back Their Tears The Playing Field
Apparitions Planet of Lovers
Araby* Traveller's Companion
Asian Twilight* Eve of Departure
B-Movie Instincts Trapped in the Hi-Fi Zone
The Beachcomber's Desire Out of Body
The Best Times Were Mode Gemini
Boleskine Legerdemain
Breakup Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Bugler Autofocus
Bugs Legerdemain
Catnip Fantasy Mode Gemini
Champ (Sandra's Roadside Attraction) The Present Link
Chasing the Dream** Vistas
Circling the Globe Seeking a New Frontier
Circuitry Suite (Parts 1-10) Outward Signs
Circular Logic The Age of the Inventor
Clara Enters Heaven Seeking a New Frontier
Clearing at Dusk** (unreleased)
Cloudbouncing Out of Body
Cobra* Traveller's Companion
Cold, Cold City The Age of the Inventor
Coming To Legerdemain
Concentric Pieces (Parts 1-5) Seeking a New Frontier
Conjurer The Playing Field
Contact Seeking a New Frontier
Cosmic Ferry Planet of Lovers
Countdown to Midnight* Traveller's Companion
Covenant** Vistas
Crystal Awareness The Playing Field
Cuba in the ‘50s Autofocus
Dancing Metro Gnomes Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Dassku* Crossings
Dawn in Dharmsala Legerdemain
Der Staat* Eve of Departure
Distant Train of Thought Mode Gemini
The Diva's Delusion Mode Gemini
Dodging Meteors Seeking a New Frontier
Dreamstate (Life on Hold) The Playing Field
The Ecstacy of Being Autofocus
Elf Dance* Eve of Departure
Emela-Ntouka (Killer of Elephants)
The Enduring Heart** Vistas
Entropy (used in compilation/film/video)
Escapade Mode Gemini
Escapist Fair Outward Signs
Eve of Departure (Parts 1-4)* Eve of Departure
Exeunt* Eve of Departure
Festival of Ceres* Through Veils
The Flash, the Rush ... the Aftermath Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Flight from Sumeria The Age of the Inventor
Following Forgotten Footways** Vistas
Funhouse Mirror Out of Body
Gamelan Canter Out of Body
Ghost Town Rendezvous Mode Gemini
Glimpsing the Invisible Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
A God's-Eye View Autofocus
Ground Swell Autofocus
Halo Seeking a New Frontier
Harbor Lights Seeking a New Frontier
Hatching Bold Plots Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Hell to Pay Out of Body
Herald* Eve of Departure
High and Dry (In the Urban Jungle) Outward Signs
Highland Cat* Eve of Departure
Homebound The Age of the Inventor
In Neptune's Palace Seeking a New Frontier
In Shadows, Among Strangers Out of Body
In the Temple of the Mystics The Playing Field
Indian Ocean* Through Veils
Indian Ocean, Voyage 2* Traveller's Companion
Inner Orbit Seeking a New Frontier
Invocation ...* Eve of Departure
Issie (A Musical Haiku) The Present Link
Jasmine Haze Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Journey to Rainbow Hollow Mode Gemini
Joy Ride Outward Signs
Keeping Insects Away (Keeler/C. Howard) (unreleased)
Khartoum* Through Veils
Kingdom in the Clouds** Vistas
Kiss of Life : Kiss of Death Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Landsight Legerdemain
Life on Hold
Loner Mode Gemini
Longing Legerdemain
Looking Back Ahead Autofocus
Love Revealed Seeking a New Frontier
Lure of the Unknown Seeking a New Frontier
Mao-Jen (From the Primeval Woods) The Present Link
Masquerade* Traveller's Companion
Mental Traps are Sprung Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Mesopotamia Autofocus
Migration* Crossings
Mindshrine Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Mistral* Crossings
Mokele Mbembe (Professor Mackal's Expedition) The Present Link
Monsoon* Through Veils
Montage of a Dream-Deferred Planet of Lovers
Morgawr (The Wonderment of ‘Mary F.') The Present Link
Nessie (The Surgeon's Picture) The Present Link
Neuro-Mechanics Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Night of the Living Knights Out of Body
Of Things Remembered Planet of Lovers
Off Our Axis Seeking a New Frontier
Ogopogo (From B.C. to B.C.) The Present Link
Oktoberfest* Eve of Departure
The Old Lighthouse The Age of the Inventor
On Getting Off Legerdemain
On the Lam Planet of Lovers
One for All Outward Signs
Opium Wars* Through Veils
Over the Ridge The Playing Field
Paper Cocktails Mode Gemini
Past Lives The Age of the Inventor
Planet of Lovers Planet of Lovers
Port Said* Eve of Departure
Probing Hidden Corridors The Age of the Inventor
Restrained Passions Mode Gemini
Revelation* Through Veils
The Revellers The Playing Field
Rites of Passage* Eve of Departure
Ritual Moves Autofocus
The Royal Hunt Outward Signs
Sailing Spatial Seas The Age of the Inventor
Samba del Sol* Crossings
Sasquatch (Patterson's Great Adventure) The Present Link
Savannah Showers Mode Gemini
Scorpio The Playing Field
Seasearch* Eve of Departure
Self-Portrait Out of Body
Shy Legerdemain
Skylift (Keeler/T. Cross) (used in compilation/film/video)
Slick Street** Vistas
Slumming Out of Body
Smoke Screen The Playing Field
Soldiers at Play Planet of Lovers
Soma Rhapsody The Age of the Inventor
Sound Waves on an Amplified Beach Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Sphere of Influence Seeking a New Frontier
Spirit Guides Mode Gemini
Splendors of the Palace Mode Gemini
Stellar Freeway The Playing Field
Storm Brewing Legerdemain
Storsjo Leviathan (Serpentine Puzzle) The Present Link
Sum Total* Crossings
Swirling Eddy Seeking a New Frontier
Target Seeking a New Frontier
Tedium Medium The Age of the Inventor
Through the Tunnel Planet of Lovers
Thunderbird (Emperor of the Sky) The Age of the Inventor
Tilt Out of Body
To the Core** Vistas
...To the Skies* Eve of Departure
Tracers The Age of the Inventor
Trail of the Sphinx* Traveller's Companion
Transformer Outward Signs
Tribal Wedding The Playing Field
A Triumphant Return The Playing Field
Tropical Winds** Vistas
Undercurrent Autofocus
The Unearthly Visitation Seeking a New Frontier
Upon the Rainswept Way Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Vagabond Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Vendetta Mode Gemini
Vigil Legerdemain
Vortex Out of Body
Wall Street Rhythm & Blue$ Legerdemain
Waterhaze Out of Body
What to Do (Keeler/T. Cross Unovidal)
Whirligig Legerdemain
Wonderland Legerdemain
Wondrous Fluid Landscapes Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Working One's Craft Legerdemain
Worldplay** Vistas
Year of the Narcotic Trapped in the Hi-Fi-Zone
Yeti (Giant Footprints in the Snow) The Present Link
Yowie (Strangers in a Changed Land) The Present Link
UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
Unknown
WRITINGS:
Unknown
DISCOGRAPHY:
SOLO
Planet of Lovers - cassette K001 (1984) [private rel.]
Cosmic Ferry
On the Lam
Planet of Lovers*
Apparitions
Airborne
Of Things Remembered
Through the Tunnel
Soldiers at Play
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Legerdemain - cassette K002 (1986) [private rel.]
Landsight
Dawn in Dharmsala
Working One's Craft
Wall Street Rhythm & Blue$
Shy
Boleskine
African Cowboy
Whirligig
On Getting Off
Vigil
Coming To
Storm Brewing
Longing
Wonderland
Bugs
Outward Signs - Great Orm GOP C1 (1988) cassette
The Royal Hunt
Joy Ride*
High and Dry (in the Urban Jungle)
Escapist Fair
One for All
The Airbrush Loves the Canvas
Transformer
Circuitry Suite (Parts 1-10)**
*Guest Artist: Don Slepian, 12-string guitar
** created for Shelley Shepherd H. and Dancers
Autofocus - Great Orm GOP CD1 (1988)
The Ecstasy of Being
Bugler
Cuba in the ‘50s
A God's-Eye View
Ritual Moves
Looking Back Ahead
Undercurrent
Mesopotamia
Ground Swell
The Present Link - Great Orm GOP CD1 (1990)
IN WATER
Champ (Sandra's Roadside Attraction)
Storsjo Leviathan (Serpentine Puzzle)
Morgawr (The Wonderment of ‘Mary F.')
Mokele-mbembe (Professor Mackal's Expedition)
Issie (A Musical Haiku)
Nessie (The Surgeon's Picture)
ON LAND
Almas (Prehistoric Now)
Ogopogo (From B.C. to B.C.)
Sasquatch (Patterson's Great Adventure)
Yeti (Giant Footprints in the Snow) [used in
Yowie (Strangers in a Changed Land)
Mao-Jen (From the Primeval Woods)
Playing Field - Great Orm GOP CD3 (1992)
Scorpio
Over the Ridge
Dreamstate (Life on Hold)
And the Clouds Held Back Their Tears
Smoke Screen
The Revellers
Conjurer
Alpine Lament
In the Temple of the Mystics
Tribal Wedding
Stellar Freeway
Crystal Awareness
A Triumphant Return
The Age of the Inventor - Multimood MRC 014 (1993)
Thunderbird (Emperor of the Sky)
Soma Rhapsody
Circular Logic
The Old Lighthouse
Adventures in Future Travel
Tracers
Homebound
Probing Hidden Corridors
Past Lives
Flight from Sumeria
Tedium Medium
Keeler: CD-loops, voiceffects, Rhodes Chroma Polaris, electronic drums, Vocalizer 1000, shortwave radio, melodica, treatments
Trapped in the Hi-Fi Zone - Multimood Records MRC 021 (1995)
The Flash, the Rush ... the Aftermath
Upon the Rainswept Way
Hatching Bold Plots
Wondrous Fluid Landscapes
Mindshrine
Kiss of Life : Kiss of Death
Neuro-Mechanics
Jasmine Haze
Vagabond
Year of the Narcotic
B-Movie Instincts
Mental Traps are Sprung
Sound Waves on an Amplified Beach
Breakup
Dancing Metro Gnomes
Glimpsing the Invisible
Keeler: CD-loops & alterations, voiceffects, treatments
Mode Gemini - unreleased CD planned for release
by Great Orm Productions
Splendors of the Palace
Spirit Guides
The Best Times Were
Journey to Rainbow Hollow
Ghost Town Rendezvous
Paper Cocktails
The Diva's Delusion
Catnip Fantasy
Savannah Showers
Escapade
Distant Train of Thought
Loner
Vendetta
Restrained Passions
Keeler: voiceffects, electronic drums, synthesizer,
electric guitar, Vocalizer 1000, sampler, damaged
Autoharp, cat purring, treatments
Guest: Grapefruit, vocals
Out of Body (Voiceffects Project #1) - unreleased
CD planned for release by Great Orm Productions
In Shadows, Among Strangers
Gamelan Canter
Waterhaze
Hell to Pay
Funhouse Mirror
Vortex
Tilt
Slumming
Emela-ntouka (Killer of Elephants)
The Beachcomber's Desire
Cloudbouncing
Night of the Living Knights
Self-Portrait
Keeler: voiceffects ("vocal samples & processed
voice, meaning all aural sounds are oral sounds
originating from within the composer")
Seeking a New Frontier - unreleased CD planned for
release by Great Orm Productions.
Clara Enters Heaven
Contact
Concentric Pieces (Parts 1-5)
Swirling Eddy
Halo
Circling the Globe
Sphere of Influence
Inner Orbit
Love Revealed
In Neptune's Palace
Dodging Meteors
Target
The Unearthly Visitation
Lure of the Unknown
Harbor Lights
Off Our Axis
Keeler: synthesizer, Vocalizer 1000, electronic
drums, barijo, tapes, Omnichord, short-wave radio
(all with voiceffects and treatments)
with PORT SAID
SINGLE
Indian Ocean, Voyage 2/Trail of the Sphinx, Port Said 45 rpm 7"-single (1981)
Indian Ocean, Voyage 2
Trail of the Sphinx
CASSETTE ALBUMS
Through Veils - Port Said PS-1 (1982)
Khartoum
Indian Ocean
Revelation
Opium Wars
Monsoon
Festival of Ceres
Keeler and Stefan Tischler, with Gaston Musella,
Cliff Cultreri and Sam Guy
Eve of Departure - Port Said PS-2 (1983)
Herald
Oktoberfest
Rites of Passage
Seasearch
Der Staat
Eve of Departure (Parts 1-4)
Highland Cat
Port Said
Elf Dance
Asian Twilight
Invocation...
...To the Skies
Exeunt
Guests: Anton Tibbe, guitar - Gary Tims, accordion
- Michael DeMoss, saxophone - Grapefruit, vocals
Crossings - Port Said PS-3 (1983)
Migration
Dassku
Mistral
Sum Total
Samba del Sol
Guest: Anton Tibbe, guitar
Traveller's Companion - Port Said PS-4 (1984)
Indian Ocean, Voyage 2
Araby
Masquerade
Countdown to Midnight
Trail of the Sphinx
Alpha
Cobra
COMPILATIONS
Ringade - V.E.C. Audio Exchange (Holland) (1982)
On-Slaught - #3, cassette magazine (USA) (1982)
Tching (The End) V.E.C. Audio Exchange (Holland) (1983)
"Countdown to Midnight" on Film Noir, American Style (2-volume boxed set in magazine format with glossy booklet) Ding Dong Tapes & Records (Holland) (1984)
Pursuit of Happiness Al Margolis (USA) (1984)
"Cobra" on The History of Jazz L'Agence des Refuses (Belgium) (1984)
Life '85 Temporary Music (West Germany) (1985)
Hear the Roar of Mountains Audiophile Tapes (USA) (1985)
The Wireless Spine Review Swinging Axe Productions (USA) (1985)
with OTHER SKIES
Vistas - Arcanum ARC-T01 (1988) cassette
Kingdom in the Clouds
Covenant
To the Core
Tropical Winds
The Enduring Heart
Chasing the Dream
Slick Street
Following Forgotten Footways
Worldplay
Along Misty Shores
Keith Keeler Walsh, synthesizers, electronic keyboards & drums, xylophone, percussion, voiceffects, treatments
Anton Tibbe, guitar, synthesizers, electronic drums, sequencer, treatments
Clearing at Dusk - Arcanum cassette single (limited issue)
WITH OTHER ARTISTS
Goonz, NOMUSIC & McGee - Electronic Cottage/Audiophile Tapes (1990)
COMPILATION CASSETTES
Intrendent Fansette - MAM-Aufnahme, Ffm (Germany) (1986)
Einsamkeit Als Mensch with Tara Cross - Technological Feeling (Italy) (1986)
Deathpack - Cassette Mythos (1986)
New Society - Harsh Reality Music (1987)
Tango - TELLUS, The Audio Cassette Magazine, #16 (1987)
Total Recess, Grade 1 - Mystery Hearsay (1987)
How to Become a Millionaire - Underground Productions (France) (1987)
Deux Lapins - Underground Productions (France) (1988)
The Electronic Cottage Int'l Compilation Cassette Series, Vol. 2 - Electronic Cottage (1991)
VIDEO/FILM:
SOLO
Terminal Art (16:30), documentary video of 1983 Terminal New York Art Show, directed by Mike Mannetta, music by Keeler, Media -M- Productions (1986).
Outside the Window, Video One/Presbyterian Church USA, directed by Stephen C. Galleher and Bruce Mosher, (USA) (1987). Received 1987 Silver Angel Award for outstanding national religious broadcast drama.
"Planet of Lovers" was used as the soundtrack to the film Tides by Richard Loverich.
PORT SAID
Trail of the Sphinx, video collage of music by Port Said and dance by Anahid Sofian, directed by Mike Manetta, Media Mannetta Productions (USA) (1983), presented at Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center, New York (1995).
Parade '83 (5:00, color, 16mm film and video versions), directed by Mike Mannetta, Media Mannetta Productions (USA) (1983), presented in New York Gay Film Festival, Gramercy Theatre (1983) and San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Video Festival (1984).
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- "Discoveries: Keeler" by Titus Levi, Keyboard (November 1989).
- "Unusual Undercurrents," interview with Joseph W. Zarzynski, Strange Magazine #7 (1991).
- "Keeler: A Tribute" by Darren Bergstein, i/e: The Magazine of Progressive and Electronic Music (Summer 1993).
- "Keeler: Trapped in the Hi-Fi Zone" by Darren Bergstein, i/e: The Magazine of Progressive and Electronic Music (August 1994) [reprinted in CD booklet]
- Death notices, New York Times (September 29, 1992 and October 1, 1992).
- "Keeler Memorial Newsletter," Great Orm Productions (date?).
- Who's Who in the East (1993-1994 edition).
- Reviews of Indian Ocean, Voyage 2/Trail of the Sphinx (Port Said):
Robert Carlberg, Polyphony (May-August 1982); Celeste-Monique Lindsey, East Village Eye (March 1983); S.P., OP Magazine ‘L' Issue (July-August 1982)
- Reviews of Through Veils (Port Said):
Graham Ingels, OP Magazine ‘R' Issue (July-August 1983); Polyphony (February 1983)
- Reviews of Eve of Departure (Port Said):
Mark Mushet, Discorder: a guide to CITR fm 102 (November 1983); Robert Carlberg, Polyphony (May 1983)
- Reviews of Crossings (Port Said):
Robert Carlberg, Polyphony (February 1984); Marcel Dion, Airtight: CJSR-FM (Edmonton, Alberta) (April 1984); Graham Ingels, OP Magazine ‘V' Issue (March-April 1984)
- Reviews of Vistas (Other Skies):
Mykel Board, Almost Nothing But Record (and Tape) Reviews, #6 (March 1989); Michael Chocholak, Electronic Cottage, #2 (September 1989); Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five, #27 (August 1988); Alan Freeman, Audion, #10 (November 1988); Bill Tilland, Option, #26 (May/June 1989)
- Reviews of Planet of Lovers (Keeler):
C.W. Vrtacek, Sound Choice (Spring 1985); Marcel Dion, Airtight (December 1984); Anne Addison, Unsound (Spring 1985); Polyphony (December 1984); Mark Lane, On-Slaught #6 (Spring 1985); Eer Meet (Canada) (January 1985); Trev Faull, Outlet (UK) (July 1985); R.J., OP Magazine ‘Y' Issue (July-August 1984)
- Reviews of Legerdemain (Keeler):
Robin James, Sound Choice #5 (Summer 1986); Carl Howard, Unsound (Summer 1986); Dino DiMuro, Option (September-October 1986); Neal M. Callander, Sound Choice, Issue No. 8 (May/June 1987)
- Reviews of Outward Signs (Keeler):
Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five, Issue #27 (August 1988); Mykel Board, Almost Nothing But Record (and Tape) Reviews, Issue #4 (Fall 1988); Alan Freeman, Audion, #10 (November 1988); Bryan Baker, GAJOOB, #6 (Autumn 1990)
- Reviews of Autofocus (Keeler):
Jim Aiken, Keyboard Magazine (August 1988); Mark Sullivan, Option, #23 (November/December 1988)
Lance Johnson, Offbeat, #2 (October 1988); David Klauber, Almost Nothing But Record (and Tape) Reviews, Issue #4 (Fall 1988); Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five, Issue #28 (November 1988); Alan Freeman, Audion, #10 (November 1988); John B. deHaas, Alternative Press (January/February 1989); East Coast Rocker (July 6, 1988)
- Reviews of The Present Link (Keeler):
"Monster CD" by Patrick Huyghe, Omni Magazine (April 1992); "Global Village Communique" by Jeff Filbert, WFIT Program Guide (no date); Dino DiMuro, Option Magazine (September/October 1990); Joseph W. Zarzynski, Strange Magazine, #6 (1990); Alan Freeman, Audion, #16 (October 1990); Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five, #37 (August 1990); Heartsong Review, #9 (Fall 1990/Winter 1991); Jeff Bagato, Mole, #4 (1991); Gerald England, New Hope International Review (U.K.), Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1991)
- Reviews of The Age of the Inventor (Keeler):
A.Y., Synthesis (date?); Gonzo Circus (Netherlands? Belgium?) (date?); M.G., (name of publication?) (date?)
Darren Bergstein, (name of publication?) (date?); (name of writer?) (name of publication?) (Germany?) (date?); (name of writer?) (name of publication?) (Netherlands? Belgium?) (date?); Albert Durand, (name of publication?) (France? Belgium?) (date?); Alan Freeman, (name of publication?) (date?)
- Reviews of Playing Field (Keeler):
Tom Grove, Option Magazine, #45 (July/August 1992); Robert L. Doerschuk, Keyboard Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 7 (July 1992); Anthony G. Burnham, Soft Watch, issue #3 (January 1993)
PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
BMI (as Keith Keeler Walsh)
RESOURCES:
Great Orm Productions
Landon C. Brown, President
279 York Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
(201) 434-0595
costard@earthlink.net
(website?)
Multimood Records
Hans Fahlberg, Director
Box 53095
400 14 Goteborg
Sweden
Phone/Fax: +46 31 7085790
E-mail: info@multimood.com
www.multimood.com
MUSICAL EXECUTOR:
to be decided
OTHER CONTACTS:
Landon C. Brown, President
Great Orm Productions
279 York Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
(201) 434-0595
costard@earthlink.net
(website?)
ARCHIVES:
With Landon C. Brown (see Resources/Other Contacts).
Estate Project Music Archive has the recordings The Age of the Inventor and Trapped in the Hi-Fi Zone, and copies of many reviews, press releases, flyers, etc.