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  Img EloyFritsch_and_Keyboardsjpg
  Img Capt The Brazilian Electronic Composer, 1999
  Img Size 300
  Background group_or_band
  Origin Brazil
  Genre Electronic Music , New Age Music , Progressive Rock , Space Music
  Years Active 1983&ndashpresent
  Label Musea , Rock Symphony


Eloy Fernando Fritsch (b. 1968) is the keyboard player and main composer of Brazilian progressive rock band Apocalypse and as a solo artist he creates cosmic New Age Music .


HISTORY

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Since his childhood , he's been studying music and researching on new sounds through Synthesizer s in order to express his electronic compositions.
During the 1983 Fritsch formed Progressive Rock band Apocalypse . They are considered pivotal in the development of progressive rock in south of Brazil.

In 1992 , he moved to Porto Alegre and began his solo project composing Electronic Music . His first official solo album was Dreams, recorded in 1994 and 1995. During 1997, he released his second solo album, Behind the Walls of Imagination, which showcases his skills with various electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments. In the mid-1990s, Fritsch secured a recording contract with French Label Musea. His third album for them, Space Music, was released in 1998.

The composer reveals his Sci-fi style with '' Cyberspace ''. In this album Fritsch offers instrumental music of seventies inspired keyboard symphonic/electronic progressive music. Fritsch performs an electronic music that evolves between Vangelis ยด ambient & impressionist electronic, and the synthesised Progressive rock of masters such as Rick Wakeman . Nevertheless, Fritsch has found his own style within melodic Electronic Music framework. The compositions are very melodic and emotive, with multi-layered instrumental textures/voicings and solidly coherent arrangements.

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Fritsch has earned a PhD in Computer Music , and has served as a teacher of Electronic Music at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). During 1999, Fritsch created the Electronic Music Center in the Institute of Arts at UFRGS.

Parallel his work as keyboard player of the group Apocalypse and his academic activity, Fritsch release through Musea and Rock Symphony labels the album '''' (2005) was Fritsch's next work to emerge on disc and is a powerful electronic/ instrumental album that maintains a reverent sense of wonder.

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SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY


With Apocalypse

  • ''Apocalypse'' (1991)

  • ''Perto do Amanhecer'' (1995)

  • ''Aurora dos Sonhos'' (1996)

  • ''Lendas Encantadas'' (1997)

  • ''The Best of Apocalypse'' (1998, Compilation)

  • ''Live in USA'' (2001, Live)

  • ''Refugio'' (2003)

  • ''Magic'' (2004)

  • ''Magic Spells'' (2006)



Solo works


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Compilations featuring Eloy Fritsch

  • ''Planeta Nova Era Vol. 7'' (1997) Track: Lake of Peace Movement 1 and 2

  • ''Planeta Nova Era Vol. 13'' (1999) Track: Cosmic Winds

  • ''Planeta Nova Era Vol. 14'' (1999) Track: Starlight

  • ''Margen - Music from the Edge Vol. 6'' (2002)- Track: Ionosphere

  • ''Edition #5'' (2005) Track: The Garden of Emotions Suite

  • ''Brasil Instrumental 2006'' (2006) Track: The Garden of Emotions Suite

  • ''Compact Mellotron 34'' (2006) Track: Andromeda

  • ''Edition #13'' (2006) Track: Shiva

  • ''Edition #14'' (2006) Track: Atlantis

  • ''Edition #15'' (2006) Track: Andromeda



EXTERNAL LINKS


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KEYBOARDS USED BY FRITSCH


Throughout his albuns Fritsch uses several instruments. Some of these are:



SEE ALSO