Ron Geesin

Ronald Frederick Geesin (born 17 December 1943, in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland) is a polymath of musician, composer, noted for his very unusual creations and novel applications of sound. Ron Geesin started his career from 1961 to 1965 as pianist with The Original Downtown Syncopators (ODS), a revivalist jazz band emulating the American Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The band was based in Crawley, Sussex, UK. Geesin is well known for his collaborations with Pink Floyd and Roger Waters. After the band found themselves hopelessly deadlocked over how to complete the title track from Atom Heart Mother in 1970, he worked with Pink Floyd as an orchestrator and organizer, and he also wrote the brass introduction. Geesin also collaborated with the band's Roger Waters (the two men shared a love of golf) on the unconventional film soundtrack Music from "The Body" (1970), sampling sounds made by the human body.

After his first solo album, A Raise of Eyebrows, in 1967, Geesin launched one of the first one-man record companies, Headscope, with the self-released As He Stands, Patruns, and Right Through. In 1971 he produced the pastoral Songs for the Gentle Man by Bridget St John....(read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
Ron Geesin came to Peel's attention in 1968, after his first LP had been released by Transatlantic Records, a label usually associated with folk artists such as Pentangle, Bert Jansch, and John Renbourn. It was the label's first stereo LP and its "electro-melodic sound painting", with Geesin using the resources of the recording studio, multi-tracking, improvising, and playing a wide range of instruments, didn't make much impression commercially. However, Peel was intrigued enough to have Geesin record a session for the Night Ride of 03 July 1968. It was the first of seven sessions for Peel between 1968 and 1976, and in addition to these Ron Geesin also appeared on Night Ride as a poet (on 14 August 1968) and as a studio guest on the programme.

Ron Geesin also collaborated with a number of artists associated with Peel, producing the Bridget St. John album mentioned above, arranging many of the tracks and playing guitar and organ on some of them. He also played piano on one track of another Dandelion Records LP, The Year Of The Great Leap Sideways by the Occasional Word Ensemble, and contributed to the 1970 LP Happy Birthday Meher Baba, an album dedicated to the Indian mystic who was revered at the time by Pete Townshend of the Who and Ronnie Lane of the Faces. He also appears on the rare 1969 BBC Records LP, John Peel Presents Top Gear, with tracks under his own name, but doesn't seem to feature so much on Peel shows after his final session in 1976.

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