#1 Our Featured Composers: Colin Orr

Welcome to the first in our exciting new series "Our Featured Composers"

Dennis Music has a broad and varied catalogue of high quality music, and we would like to introduce some of the people behind the music. Each week we will feature a different composer along with a selection of their music. We are delighted to start off with the well-know progressive rock pioneer Colin Orr.

Colin was born in Liverpool and founded the progressive rock group Janus in 1970, part of the EMI Harvest label which included Deep Purple, Pink Floyd and Edgar Broughton.

The Janus LP Gravedigger is considered to be a turning point in European progressive music. Due to constant demand the Gravedigger Cd was re-released in 1989 and Colin recreated Janus and had a top 40 hit in Holland with Agnus Dei.

He plays guitar, piano, bass, drums and keyboards and writes classical new age and rock music.

He produced 9 albums with us, 6 of which were in collaboration with Bill Woodgate.

You can have a listen to selection of his tracks here. 
 
Did you know? Colin lives and works in the farmhouse used by the Biggs for the Great Train Robbery


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