The Changes
Paddy Kingsland
SILLP1540
1970's Cult BBC TV Original Soundtrack
First Ever Release
The critically acclaimed BBC TV series, The Changes, was first broadcast by the BBC in in 1975, accompanied by music from electronic pioneer Paddy Kingsland, who wrote and recorded the score while working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The ten-part series, adapted from Peter Dickinson's book trilogy, was perfectly suited to Kingsland's seminal electronic style, following a teenager living in a Britain where machinery and technology emit a terrible, all-enveloping noise, causing the population to destroy them.
Kingsland used an early synthesiser, the EMS Synthi 100 (which was apparently so large, they had to remove the doors of the studio to get it through), overlaid with live instruments including sitar, percussion, tabla, flute and horns to create a soundtrack which is indicative of exactly how the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's early output influenced and informed the popular electronic music of the Eighties and beyond.
Kingsland went on to write the music for (amongst others) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Radio and TV series), Doctor Who and Around the World in 80 Days, as well as composing for the KPM music library, who issued eight albums of his work. An LP of his Radiophonic Workshop output, "The Fourth Dimension", was released by BBC Records in 1973.
The Changes Opening Titles
Home Alone (Nicky's Theme)
Everybody's Gone
A Note on the Door
A Special Kind of People
Your Ways Are Not Our Ways
The Changes Closing Titles (56" version)
The Bad Wires
The Barns
The Devil's Children
The Village Court
Hostages!
The End of the Rescue
A Journey, and Arrival at Henley Farm
Sentence of Death
Leaving Shipton
Heartsease
At Purton Bridge
After the Bridge
Michael and Mary
Necromancer's Weather
The Quarry
Mr Furbelow
Qui Me Tangit, Turbat Mundum
Into the Rock
The Cavern
Merlinus Sum
Everything's Alright Again (End Titles)
Nicky's Theme (Stereo Demo) (Bonus Track)
Theme 2 Demo (Bonus Track)
The Noise (Bonus Track)
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