Gary Eugene Barlough is a principal songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist with the rock band CIRCUS TRAIN, which he co-founded and which has played throughout the Southern California region. He was born and grew up in Los Angeles, and is a graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music. Barlough has also worked as a film composer, producer, engineer and synthesist. He is an award winning producer/ engineer and now works primarily out of his studio in Los Angeles, writing and producing new music for Circus Train and for other media projects.
Barlough has been known for his style of music synthesis and sound design which has been apparent from the start. Those ideas made their way into many band’s and solo artist’s projects. He built sampled drum sounds for David Gilmour on PINK FLOYD’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason album. He contributed to several JON ANDERSON and YES projects and BERLIN’S Count Three & Pray album. He was awarded a Grammy Award as primary engineer for Best New Age CD, Thinking of You released by the artist KITARO. He recorded and co-produced the film score for Oliver Stone’s Heaven & Earth which was awarded the Golden Globe Award for ‘Best Musical Score’, also by Kitaro. He produced the soundtrack for The Soong Sisters which won both the Golden Horse Award, and the Hong Kong Film Festival award for best music score. Projects he has been creatively instrumental on have been nominated for 16 Grammy Awards.
As a principle founding member of CIRCUS TRAIN, he played keyboards and acoustic guitar along with co-writing, singing and writing lyrics for the band. In 2014, he wrote the score and produced the soundtrack CD for the film Snake and Mongoose, which included 7 mini-songs and accompanying score. He shared Music Supervisor responsibilities for the film. He has produced surround SACD, DVD-A projects, and is currently working on more Circus Train releases for 2024 and 2025.
CONTRIBUTIONS
(a list of select projects)
Circus Train
Pink Floyd
Berlin
Yes
Mark Isham
Oliver Stone/ Ixtlan/ Warner Brothers Pictures
Copernicus Studios
Universal Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Disney/ Disney Pearl Records
Golden Harvest Company
NHK TV
Capitol Records
EMI Records
Universal Music Group
A&M Records
Kitaro/ Domo Records
Entertainment Universe/ Snake and Mongoose LLC
Rhino Films
AWARDS
Grammy Award Winner – 2000 “Best New Age Album” – by Kitaro / Gary Barlough (primary engineer, music programmer)
Golden Globe Winner – 1994 “Best Music – Original Score” – by Kitaro / Gary Barlough (co-producer of soundtrack)
Golden Horse Award Winner – 1997 ” Best Musical Score” – by Kitaro / score produced by Gary Barlough
16 Grammy Award nominations – primary contributor (as producer, engineer or programmer) – various artists
ASSOCIATIONS
Voting Member
Andora Media Publishing, BMI
