Artist description compositions used in the lonely planet series of documentary travel tv programs. currently peices from the 'ireland' and 'russia' shows are available. more tracks will be provided on request. in addition ian ritchie has written pieces for the 'norway', 'australia', 'iceland', 'madagascar', 'new zealand', 'brazil', 'equador' programs from the series as well as composing the 'lonely planet theme'. in addition, more recent pieces are in a chilled out jazz style. these include 'spy theme' which was composed for a spy gadgets documentary and 'equinox' which is part of a chilled jazz album project known as 'paradiso'. more to follow.

Music Style ranges from world music and ambient to drum and bass and techno and jazz.

Musical Influences jan garbarek, kraftwerk, judge jules, madonna

Similar Artists the chemical brothers, jan garbarek, ......

Artist History ian ritchie is a composer/producer/saxophonist/programmer. he started his musical life in the theatre rock group 'deaf school' as a sax player. he later released records under the name 'miro miroe' during the new romantic period in the 80's. he went on to produce albums by roger waters, laurie anderson, hugh cornwell, pete wylie..... before returning to live performance with his jazz and ambient groups. he is currently perfoming live in venues all over london as well as producing/composing music for film and tv.

Group Members ian ritchie

Instruments saxophones, flutes, keyboards, guitars, programming

Albums music from the lonely planet I, II and III

Location london, england - United Kingdom

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