Between 1975 and 1987, and sporadically afterwards, Synergy was the alias of electronic musician Larry Fast, perhaps best known for his work with Peter Gabriel. For this particular album Fast utilised a program called Pink Tunes, written by John Simonton of PAiA electronic kits, to send control voltages to a Prophet 5 synth.
The result was the two eleven-minute tracks and one 23-minute track that make up Computer Experiments Volume One (there wouldn't be any subsequent Volumes). The first track in particular is a thing of shimmering beauty, then the other two dive deeper into more minor-key ambience. Eno and Vangelis fans should definitely give this a go.
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Legend has it that the vast majority of titles that were originally released on Passport/PVC, and distributed in the US by the old Jem Imports, in the early 80s ended up languishing in some basement somewhere, victims of numerous transfers and bankruptcies along the way. Most of that stuff has never seen the light of day on CD. Larry was obviously one of the few with enough clout to have gotten his stuff out of that mess.
ReplyDeleteAlso - you have this person's undying thanks for sticking to music here. Yeah, we all know, and we all care - but at the same time - enough already.
Thanks, interesting on Passport. I remember having Synergy's Cords on one of their blue cassettes, don't really know much about the label.
DeleteAlso, thanks re: second para. Sounds like my instincts are about right to just keep plugging away as normal. Sure, I watched the news this afternoon...but then just danced my ass off to Mingus Ah Um whilst prepping the dinner. We'll always need music.
Much appreciated, especially now
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