MOTM

John L. writes:

>>As far as Supertramp I am sure I heard Synths in
there, go back a couple of albums.  On the credits
they just list keyboards, I guess Roger Hodgson and
Rick Davies, did not wnt to give the manufacturers any
free publicity, and why not I am sure the
manufacturers didnt give them any breaks on equipment.<<

They aren't really know for synth use.  But SOS did a piece about the making
of Breakfast in America.  They say they used an Oberheim 4 voice on it.
They also used an Elka Rhapsody String synth through a Chorus pedal.  The
strings in "Take the Long Way Home" would be an example.  Also they used a
Wurlitzer, not a Rhodes for electric piano which somebody made a mistake on.


Ken Tkacs writes:

>>Off the top of my head, I can think of these electronic music LPs that
never made it to CD:

"The Four Seasons" by Patrick Gleeson, using the Synclavier.

"The Electronic Messiah" (Carlos-style rendition of the Messiah with a
real human choir)

"Sound Creature" by Isao Tomita (his 'secrets of synthesis' album); most
other Tomita has been released on CD, but not necessarily in Europe or
The States.<<

I have these and lots other vintage records I'm probably going to sell off.


>>"The Interstellar Suite" by Amin Bhatia is good and I hear had a limited
CD release.<<

Had Amin Bhatia appeared on the scene 10 years earlier and with a modular
synth, we might be naming him along with Tomita and Carlos as the third
synth virtuoso.  I liked his original Roland contest entry better than his
redone version for the "Intersteller Suite".  It wasn't broken up and
intermixed with movie-like sound effects and dialog, and it was supposedly
100% Minimoog with effects, as opposed to the more digital sounding synths
(but really analog) he later used for "Interstellar Suite".

I still have his two winning Roland 5th and 6th Annual Synthesizer Tape
Contest entries online.  The links are below at about 4.7 MB and 2.2 MB
respectively.  The first piece really picks up after the first slow minute.
He was heavily influenced by Tomita.  Minimoog is the synth used in each one
(he got a hell of a lot out of that synth), but it sounds like there is also
an 808 or similar type drum machine used in the second piece.

http://home.att.net/~synth6/Flight_Beyond_the_Stars-Bhatia.mp3

http://home.att.net/~synth6/Desert_March_of_the_Military-Bhatia.mp3


-Elhardt