Alain Kremski is an award-winning French pianist known especially for his meditative compositions using Asian bells and gongs, as well as for recording the entire oeuvre of George Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann. Olivier Messiaen has written of him, after hearing his recordings with Tibetan gongs and cymbal, "Je les ai écoutées avec une attention soutenue et je peux vous assurer qu’il s'agit là d'un monde absolument nouveau…"