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Inner Space: The Lost Film Music of Sven Libaek is a long-overdue compilation of Sven Libaek's finest film and TV soundtrack work from the 60s and 70s.
This great CD and LP contains tracks from 'The Set' soundtrack (1970) - "a sexual ride through jet set Sydney", the 'Inner Space' TV Show soundtrack (1974) - the legendary undersea TV series from Valerie And Ron Taylor, 'Nature Walkabout' TV Show soundtrack (1965) - a documenatry on Australia's flora and fauna and the 'To Ride A White Horse' soundtrack (1966) - an early surf documentary.
Sven Libaek was born in Norway on September 20, 1938 and trained early as both a musician and an actor.
During the early 60s, he held the position of Musical Director and A&R Manager for CBS Records as well as General Manager for April Music Publishing Company in Sydney, Australia for four years. During that time he produced over 200 singles and albums featuring Australian artists and groups. Sven left CBS to free lance as a composer, arranger, conductor and to start his own music production company.
Libaek lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1977 to 1994. He orchestrated more than 300 popular songs for US radio stations and in 1987 he was engaged by Hanna-Barbera in Hollywood to score the music to ten two hour animated TV movie specials. For this project he composed more then 8 hours of music, ranging from full symphony orchestra to electronic synthesizer and every conceivable combination of instruments in between.
Sven Libaek has provided the soundtrack to many Australian films & TV series, including 'Boney', 'Nature Walkabout', 'Nickel Queen', 'The Set', 'Lady and the Law', 'Murcheson Creek', 'Big Country', 'Inner Space', 'The World Around Us', 'Joe Wilson', and 'The Settlement', as well as dozens of documentaries and industrial films. He worked with Maurice Jarre as musical coordinator and orchestrator for Peter Weir's film 'The Year of Living Dangerously'. He also hosted his own TV show on ABC called 'All about Music'.
The Wes Anderson film, 'Life Aquatic', which opened worldwide in December 2004 featured five of Sven's compositions as part of its score.
Packaging & Liner Notes
CD: Standard Jewel case.
LP: Standard LP sleeve.