Nemo Studios

Not to be confused with Nemo Studio, the production company and studio used by New Age music producer Frank Peterson.

Nemo Studios was a recording studio in London, planned, built and used by Greek composer Vangelis in 1975–87.^[1] Numerous highlights of Vangelis' career were composed in Nemo, including soundtracks for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire (the soundtrack for which won Oscar) and Roger Donaldson's The Bounty.

The studio was located on the second floor of the former building to Hampden Gurney school^[2], near the Marble Arch.^[3] The building no longer exists. Vangelis' equipment included more than 20 synthesizers and acoustic keyboard instruments,^[1] as well as numerous percussion instruments.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Richard Clews. Inside the Synth Lab, in Sound on Sound, November 1997 issue. Available online.
2. ^ NemoStudios.co.uk. Portrait of a studio. Retrieved 8 April 2010 Available online.
3. ^ ^{a b} Wolfgang Fenchel. Captain Nemo's Musical Odysseys Part 1, in Neumusik Vol. 5, August 1981. Available online.

External links

• NemoStudios.co.uk - A tribute to the Nemo Studios, includes history, instruments, equipment, photographs.
• Nemo Studios' floorplan Circa 1982 with photographs.
• Studio photo gallery at Elsewhere.com, photographs of Vangelis' studios including Nemo Studios, at the Elsewhere fan site
• Vangelis: Recording the Future, a compilation of Sound on Sound and Recording World Magazine interviews, featuring photographs and a floor plan of the studio.

Coordinates: 51°30′54″N 0°09′42″W / 51.5149°N 0.1617°W / 51.5149; -0.1617