NAME: Keeler (Keith Keeler Walsh)

BIRTH DATE/LOCATION:
June 3, 1952, San Diego, California

DEATH DATE/LOCATION:
September 25, 1992, Jersey City, New Jersey

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  • 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.

     


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