Showing posts with label Synth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Synth. Show all posts

Friday, 15 August 2014

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company

Like a Duck To Water (1976) ...

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company was an early synthesiser group formed by David Borden with Steve Drews and Linda Fisher in Ithaca, New York, with the help of Robert Moog. Pioneering new-music in the systemic vein akin to Terry Riley and Philip Glass.... Originally released on Earthquack Recordings ...

Downtown (2001 CD reissue) ... 



Oleo Strut ... 




Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company performs live at WBAI's Free Music Store on January 22, 1972... (from Pacifica Radio Archives) archive.org ...

starsend.org ...

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Caroline K

Now Wait For Last Year (1987) ...

Caroline K was a founder member of Nocturnal Emissions, and this was her only solo album ... Drone based electronica ... Another title taken from a Philip K Dick novel ...

Now Wait For Last Year on Bandcamp ... 




cover image Now Wait For Last Year is a masterpiece of understated electronic elegance. Like the hallucinatory drug JJ-180 from the Philip K. Dick novel which the album is named after, these songs have the ability to bend time, only in this case Caroline has utilized a synthesizer for the purpose of warping temporal perceptions. No heavy handed tricks or tomfoolery seem to have been used in achieving this effect. With her delicate touch, she created a pleasing batch of songs perfect for rainy evening meditations... brainwashed.com ...



Now Wait ...