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Beaver & Krause were a musical duo made up of Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause. Their 1967 album ''The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music'' was a pioneering work in the electronic music genre. Beaver introduced Monkees singer-drummer Micky Dolenz to the Moog, which became a featured instrument on the fourth Monkees album, ''Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.'', and Beaver himself performed on one track, "Star Collector" in 1967. In addition, he led workshops at the Beaver & Krause LA studio attended by a who's who of film composers and session keyboardists of the time. In June 1967, Beaver and Krause set up a booth at the Monterey Pop Festival, demonstrating their newly purchased electronic synthesiser, one of the first constructed by Bob Moog. Thanks to their demonstrations of the Moog at Monterey, Beaver and Krause also introduced the instrument to a number of other leading American pop acts including The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and The Byrds, helping to create the vogue for the Moog that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Krause introduced the instrument first to Sir George Martin, producer of the Beatles, and then to George Harrison during Harrison's 1968 visit to California while producing the Apple artist, Jackie Lomax. He used it to generate his 1969 free-form solo ''Electronic Sound'' album for Apple Records' spinoff label Zapple, with the first side of the disc consisting of not only Krause's composition, but also his performance – one that remained completely unacknowledged and uncompensated for. In 1968, Beaver and Krause released an album for Mercury Records imprint Limelight Records, ''Ragnarok'', then released a series of three albums for Warner Brothers Records, ''In a Wild Sanctuary'' (1970), ''Gandharva'' (1971) and ''All Good Men'' (1972), effectively creating both the electronica and New Age musical movements. The final chord of their track "Spaced" from the ''Wild Sanctuary'' album is very similar to the synthesizer THX Sound Logo in movie theaters named ''deep note'', although it is unknown if it was directly influenced by Beaver and Krause. Both Mike Bloomfield and Ronnie Montrose played guitar on the Beaver & Krause song "Saga Of The Blue Beaver". The duo ended with Beaver's premature death in 1975, at age 49. Krause released at least two more solo albums: ''Citadels'' in 1979 and ''Gorillas in the Mix'' in 1988, plus several movie soundtracks, and now specializes in recording naturalistic sounds, combining them with synthesizers. ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beaver & Krause」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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