{"title":"Neuronium","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"signature-3","title":"Signature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Belgian electronic musician Michel Huygen began his extraordinary musical career in 1976 with Neuronium still as a trio - But at the latest from 1982, after the collaboration with Vangelis on the joint album \"In London\", Michel Huygen stands as a synonym for Neuronium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In these 40 years Huygen has released an album under Neuronium almost every year until today. So it's time for him to take stock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut \"Signature\" is not just a \"Best Of\" for Huygen aka Neuronium, the tracks selected for this compilation have a very special meaning for the artist: \"All the tracks on \"Signature\" are based on a very deep context to me. They are in fact the exact description of who I am as a person, what I feel in life and what my goals are. They are the expression of my different moods when I compose music, in really completely different styles, from ultra-electronic, cosmic, spacey, dreamy, to even neo-classical music for and with, for example, the London Symphony Orchestra, which we then recorded at the Abbey Road Studio in London. And why did I choose just these tracks among more than 500 compositions from a 46 years period for this album? Simply because these tracks form a transparent acoustic document that reflects all my feelings. As different as they may be, and despite all the unpredictability that life sometimes brings, they are never negative. That's what I'm trying to convey with Signature\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompilation compiled by Michel Huygen\/Neuronium himself with works from his long creative period, partly with recordings from London's Abbey Road Studios together with the London Symphony Orchestra, edited and remastered by the artist himself as well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mig Music","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50393560056139,"sku":"2048725","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0885513029829_a80a205a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726421306"},{"product_id":"in-london-6","title":"In London","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was in the year 1981 when Belgian electronic musician Michel Huygen and his Spanish colleague Carlos Guirao, both better known as Neuronium, met with Evangelos Odyssas Papathanass , better known as Vangelis, to record a joint session in London. Michel Huygen remembers: \"The music we played together starting from my score, was flowing, flowing so fast and smoothly between the 3 of us, that I can now, many years after, say: We recorded all the music's parts in one single \"shot\", since the result was absolutely what we all wanted and Vangelis told us: \"Don't touch what we have recorded, it is lovely \" and so we did.\" Now, after some rather unofficial releases, the opus \u003ci\u003eIn London\u003c\/i\u003e is finally released for the first time in its entire length, titled \u003ci\u003eIn London - The Platinum Edition\u003c\/i\u003e, fondly reworked, remastered and sonic refined to perfection exactly 45 years after Neuronium released their first album on the famous Harvest label. Michel Huygen had intended to celebrate this anniversary with Vangelis in Paris. But fate had other intentions, on May 17, 2022, Vangelis died as a result of a Covid-19 disease. Huygen: \"I feel honoured to have been able to meet him, to play music with him and to have him as a funny friend too. And mainly to have been able to meet a huge musician, a classical composer for the forthcoming generations, without doubt. R.I.P, dear Vangelis.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mig Music","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477356220747,"sku":"2001585","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50477356515659,"sku":"2004928","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/885513028723_f800b360_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727470464"},{"product_id":"quasar-2c361-vuelo-quimico-the-harvest-years","title":"Quasar 2C361 \/ Vuelo Quimico - The Harvest Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eStarted as a quintet in the lineup bassist, drummer, guitarist and two keyboardists in the mid-1970s, Neuronium soon shrank to a trio with the Belgian musician Michel Huygen (keyboards, synthesizer) and Albert Gim?nez (guitars) and Carlos Guirao (keyboards, synthesizer) from Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the musical direction as a quintet was still in the direction of progressive and psychedelic rock, the trio formation with role models and preferences such as Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream or Popul Vuh oriented itself more in the direction of the \"Berlin School\" and fully committed itself to the genre of electronic and cosmic music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band signed up in 1977 with famous British label HARVEST created by EMI in 1969 to market progressive rock music and at that time already had well-known artists like Barclay James Harvest, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd or Kevin Ayers under contract. Neuronium's debut album from the same year, \"Quasar 2C361\", cased as Spain's first \"cosmic music\" album. One year later, \"Vuelo Quimico\", dedicated to the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, was recorded, a guest being Nico, ex-singer of Velvet Underground. Concert and festival appearances follow this second album, proving already Neuronium's great popularity. Albert Gim?nez left, however, the founding trio exactly after this work has made its mark. In 1981 Neuronium, now as a duo, recorded a session with Vangelis, which was released for the first time as a Premium Edition in its entirety on vinyl and CD under the title \"In London\" in the fall of 2022. To this day, Michel Huygen successfully continues to release electronic music as Neuronium. Now, finally, the re-issues of the two Harvest albums will hit the stores, lovingly sound-restored and edited by Michel Huygen himself and mastered by Johannes Scheibenreif, Vienna (Austria).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477725745483,"sku":"2011687","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/885513028822_55fd5216_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727477254"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/neuronium.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}