[sdiy] Buffy St. Maries Buchla album????

[Neil Jendon]

on 2/9/01 3:59 PM, Grant Richter at grichter at asapnet.net wrote:

> While doing a web search on Buchla I stumbled across this:
> 
>> Folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie is no stranger to high tech.
>> 
>> In the late '60s, she used a Buchla synthesizer to record the first ever
>> all-electronic vocal album, Illuminations. Not that it got much notice.
>> "People  were more in love with the Pocahontas-with-a-guitar image," she
>> says.
> 
> Now that is weird. Anybody got a copy or ever heard it?
> 
> 
The soundtrack for "Performance" features some strange raga-like ditties
from B St. M. I don't know if there's any buchla, but it is quite a way away
from typical "folk".

-Neil