ARTIST: Silmu
RELEASE: Bath Spa
FORMAT: Digital
Cat.#: PAR-012
LABEL: Pacific-Atlantic Records
RELEASE DATE: 19th April 2012
FILE UNDER: Synthesizer, Home Recording, Instrumental
SILMU – Bath Spa
Track listing:
1. Bath Spa 2:57
2. A New Low 3:53
3. Black Nancy 5:21
Total running time 12:10
The joys of hardware! Those cumbersome modes, big metal boxes with small displays, hidden control structures accessed with clicky interfaces.
This is what this record is all about. Preparing the instruments, scribbling down the buttons to press, then letting the tape run. Unleashing the automatons under the superficial control of two hands run by the soft machine of human brain.
These tracks are my personal poke at being the 'Synth Wiz' immortalized by the likes of Keith Emerson, Jean-Michel Jarre and Howard Jones. That mysterious, octopi-like player behind stacks of classic gear, dialing in new layers of electronic sound. The recordings are all straight takes: two or three synths, a drum machine, a human and some triggered sequences.
Equipment: Casio CZ-5000 Cosmo Synthesizer, Ensoniq EPS-16+ Performance Sampler, Roland SH-101 Monophonic Synthesizer, SPD-8 Percussion Pad and MC-500 Micro Composer, Alesis MMT-8 Midi Sequencer, Yamaha CS-01 Monophonic Synthesizer, Elektron Sidstation SID Synthesis Module, Kawai K4r Digital Synthesizer Module and XD-5 Percussion Synthesizer.
Recorded and mixed at Pacific-Atlantic Mobile Studio.
Cat. # PAR-012
Listen and download at Bandcamp:
http://twistedkrister.bandcamp.com/album/bath-spa
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