Jim Kirkwood

Jim Kirkwood is a UK-based composer of synthesizer music who started recording in 1990 and has always released his work himself, at first on cassette. His early albums turn scenes from fantasy literature, above all Tolkien's Middle-earth, into long electronic pieces built on the Berlin School model of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Those tapes were later recognised as an early source of the style now called dungeon synth. Kirkwood played in a metal band with his brother before moving to electronic music.