Craig Leon

Bio

Craig Leon is an American-born producer, composer, and performer currently living in England. He’s best known for discovering and producing gems of the 1970s and 80s New York underground rock scene during his tenure as a producer at Sire Records–bands like the Ramones, the Talking Heads, Suicide, and Blondie. In later years he returned to his roots in classical music, working with Luciano Pavarotti, Joshua Bell, Sir James Galway, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Leon was also involved in a number of major films, including The Karate Kid, 200 Cigarettes, Sid and Nancy, and Revenge of the Nerds. Leon wrote and produced a couple of his own albums, Nommos (1981) and Visiting (1982), the first of which was released on John Fahey’s Takoma Records. Those two albums were reissued in 2014 via RVNG Intl. as Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1, and Leon has since performed these pieces live for the first time. More recently, Leon released Bach to Moog, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moog modular synthesizer, launched a label of his own, Atlas Realisations, and in 2019 released Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon.