Biography
Hailing from New York City, where he was born and spent his early years, New Age composer John Flomer has long called himself a "visual musician." His very first instrument was the accordion, which he took up in order to master melodies from motion pictures such as Exodus, King of Kings, and Never on Sunday. Once his family moved to Minnesota, he and his brother Robert took up guitar, drawing their chief inspiration from the Ventures; in the early 1970s the two siblings formed the band U.S. Pipe, which later became known as Archangel. Growing weary of rock & roll, Flomer sold every guitar he owned in 1981, purchased a synthesizer instead, and started composing music to accompany the video pieces he created while enrolled in the media arts program at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, once more finding motivation in the film scores that had captivated him as a child. In 1989 he abandoned multimedia work altogether to devote himself entirely to music, issuing his first solo album, One, in 1991. Ocean Dragons appeared the following year, after which Flomer, backed by the ensemble Primal Cinema, returned in 1996 with Mysterious Motions of Memory, the initial title he released on the Spotted Peccary label. Three years after that came Night in the Vapor Jungle.
Albums