Alexander Goldscheider - The Moons Of Jupiter (1981/Wriggler Game Tape B-side 1985) reMyster 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- Special Thanks to Alexander Goldscheider - who wrote, recorded and produced the original track - for sending the original audio master file and directing me with the design :)
When I left Prague for London for five months in June 1981 via the British Council, I continued recording my instrumental tracks for my solo LP at the Red Bus Recording Studios, one of the best in London. After my family and I decided to emigrate, Red Bus released not one, but two LPs in two years, except without any advance, without any fee for me as a composer, player, producer, and mostly engineer, too. They were helpful in my coming over to the UK and re-settling there, though.
To be able to support a refugee family with two small children, I tried to do something completely different: designing, producing and selling in partnership with another Czech, a computer specialist Ondřej Kořínek, our own software and hardware. As if by magic touch, we managed to succeed with everything we had a go at.
I had to, though, completely forget about my music, except as regards one of the products, a computer game "Wriggler": I put my song "The Moons of Jupiter" on the B side, just because I felt sorry to leave half of the tape blank. Not only the game, but also the instrumental track turned out to be very popular back in 1985, and “The Moons of Jupiter” still has its many listeners to this day, including those who in the mid-1980s kept on playing the cassette tape until its complete destruction - and apologetic and polite demands to have it replaced.
I had no idea at the time - and when I found out two days ago, it almost made me cry - that the song became a jingle for the Top of the Pops on Israeli television in 1984-1990. I don't know why I never had any income from it, which would have changed everything and I would not have had to leave the world of music, to which it was very difficult to return a decade later.
At least the way I found out about the jingle turned out to be really joyous. Many weeks ago, on the 29th November 2021, Ran Jurgenson from Israel, completely unbeknown to me, asked me, if he could take my instrumental song "The Moons of Jupiter" and remix it. I sent him the master in good faith, urged him not to betray my trust and wished him well.
I forgot about it swiftly until I suddenly found the remix in my mail a couple of days ago for my approval, so that Ran could put it on TH-cam. To my surprise, he sent me not only the track, but also very nice graphics for the TH-cam presentation. I was really excited, we changed a couple of things together, and I am very happy to present his version of my song recorded in Prague in 1978 and re-recorded in 1981 in London.
Only when I asked him if he knew the song from the game "Wriggler", he wrote me that he had loved it since he was 12 years old from... Israeli television, from the show להיט בראש "Lahit baroš"! He was, though, rather shy to contact me, he followed me and had all my records, and somehow only now, in his 47! years, he decided to approach me.
At my age, one must not even begin to regret anything, and instead rejoice whatever one can. And there is a lot of joy for me in Ran's version and I hope that many others will also be pleased by his remix, as Ran is a very experienced musician, composer, drummer, arranger, graphic artist and film director! And who knows, this may turn out like the end of the movie "Casablanca", with two heroes walking away proclaiming, that it may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Judge for yourself on the second day of the release of Ran’s remix.
And, please, take into account that the original track is over 40 years old!
Amazing story, this is the soundtrack of our childhood.
@@uripaz77
Dear Uri,
You had no chance of knowing, what your words mean to me.
To someone, who keeps on finding facts, he never knew, as they were kept away from him for various reasons.
To someone, who grew up in Czechoslovakia and whose many ancestors perished in the Holocaust.
To someone, from whom his parents tried to conceal this and in fact hide from him his Jewish roots altogether.
To someone, who found out from his schoolmates and not in a nice way.
To someone, who could not live a Jewish life in Eastern Europe and emigrated at 31, so that his children could.
To someone, who tried to re-establish his successful music career in the UK, could not do it fast enough and started a computer company instead.
To someone, who put one of his tracks as a bonus on a cassette with a computer game, and both turned out to be very popular.
To someone, who until this week had no idea that the track apparently became in 1984-1990 a theme of a TV program in Israel, as this fact was also kept away from him, albeit for other reasons.
To someone, for whom Israel could never ever be compared to anything in the world and its history.
To someone, who is now at 71+ being told from Israel, that his music was “the soundtrack of our childhood“.
So, perhaps now you stand a better chance of knowing, what your words mean to me, and I cannot thank you enough for them as well as Ran for contributing to all this.
I can die a happier man. Hope that not too soon, though.
@@AlexanderGoldscheider Don't die just yet...!🤪❤
great work! sounds amazing!
This is Great music, and really touching story. All the best for both of you guys