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Roger Mason

Australian electronic keyboardist, member of multiple New Wave bands

Roger Ashley Mason is an Australian keyboardist who has been a member of new wave groups Models, Absent Friends and Icehouse. He was a session and backing musician for United Kingdom's Gary Numan and for various Australian artists. From the early 1990s he has composed music for television and feature films.

He appeared on Models best performed album, Out of Mind, Out of Sight (1985), which reached No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and provided a No. 2 hit "Barbados" and a No. 1 hit "Out of Mind, Out of Sight". On 27 October 2010, Models were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame by former member, Wendy Matthews.

As a composer, Mason has won 12 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Awards for his TV and film work, MDA (presented in 2003), The Extra (2005), Peking to Paris (2006), The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2009), My Place (2010), The Outlaw Michael Howe (2014), The Code (2015), The Principal (2016) and Hungry Ghosts (2021).

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Works

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  • 5533 Casualties in One Night
  • Anzac Day at Lone Pine
  • Australians Surrender
  • Australians at War
  • Australians at War - Main Title
  • Butterflies on the Ceiling - The Sistine Chapel
  • Call to Arms / Enlistment / Sailing to Marseilles
  • Chinese Interrogations
  • Chocolate Soldiers Arrive in Moresby
  • Clinging to the Hillside at Gallipoli
  • Conscription 1969
  • Dresden Aftermath - Japanese Forced to a Standstill
  • Escape From Reality
  • Federation
  • First Volunteer NSW Bushmen
  • Germany Invades Poland
  • Good Old Days
  • Homeland
  • In Every Town
  • Japanese Surrender / Returning Home
  • Korean Winter
  • Landing at Calais / March to the Front
  • Mont St Quentin - The Final Push, Anzac Day 1918
  • Mountain of Truth
  • Old Diggers
  • Peace! / Sailing Into Circular Quay
  • Peacekeeping
  • Remains of Pozieres
  • Search for the Wounded
  • Special Forces in Vietnam
  • Take Me Back to Dear Old Aussie
  • The Accordion - Leave at Marseilles
  • The Attack at Fromelles / First Night in France
  • The Courier Mail - Pows Listed Dead from Changi to Sandakan
  • The Front / Waiting for the Barrage
  • The Kokoda
  • The Sinking of the Perth Off Java
  • The Veld
  • Two Weeks' Relief
  • Victory at el Alamein / Heroes Return
  • Vietnam Protests
  • Waiting of the End - Singapore Falls
  • Winter at Passchendale