A New Album


This latest record was supposed to be an EP released shortly after the last full album but was delayed again and again. In the meantime, it started to develop into a work that is longer than some Yuminale albums.   


The three songs on here are long, free-form, fully electronic and synthesizer based. Spacey, trippy, psychedelic, weird and all that good stuff. If you're looking for organized normalcy, this is not the place to be.   


The main thing about this album that has amazed me was how zen-like my approach to the songs became. They were quite unstructured and with much open space but after time it all started to fit together and then I started to like a lot of it.   


I would say this is headphone-oriented music.  Something in the vein of Future Sound of London or Tangerine Dream although there are no samples or field recordings, all sound design is self-made. 


I truly hope you like it!

RUPERT HINE

 

 

Been trying to get to this since it happened in June but this summer has been, well... 

Last month we lost a great Record Producer, Rupert Hine.   

He was responsible for many favorite recordings of mine in the 80's and 90's.  I never looked for things he worked on, rather I would later find out that he was the producer behind many of the albums I was buying and music I was listening to.  Besides being a musician and recording artist himself, he was behind a very impressive array of musical artists.  

 

Some faves: 

Saga    Wind Him Up from World's Apart. 
 https://youtu.be/7J0QdXBY0wo

Plus the album Heads or Tales. 
https://youtu.be/rH7XWkwggsM 

Rush from Presto.   Love Neil's crash hit - like suspended in mid air. 
https://youtu.be/FtpMeyjE6Rw 

Duncan Sheik from the first album. 
https://youtu.be/JTZUVK5kd7s 

From The Fixx's album Walkabout. 
https://youtu.be/yhaScQwkpx0 
https://youtu.be/gQczfaPcpXM 

Plus  all the great Fixx albums.    

 

SO many really great recordings !!

 

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Alan R. Pearlman passed away today at age 93. Founder of ARP synthesizers.

Alan R. Pearlman passed away today at age 93. Founder of ARP synthesizers. He was nicknamed “ARP” as a kid growing up in New York City, so it seemed the perfect name for a company when he was later designing electronic musical instruments.  The first instrument created by Alan was the modular synthesizer known as the ARP 2500. The monophonic product was released years after the first Moog and Buchla instruments, but gained attention for several new features including the ever-popular function of not drifting out of tune, which was a common problem in the earlier products. Next came the now classic ARP 2600, and soon the company became a great leader in the growth and development of the electronic musical market.  

So now I know why it was named ARP!
The only time I got to use a real ARP was in a recording studio, they had an old ARP Odyssey. We were doing some very experimental stuff, and in the middle there was an interlude where I got to have some fun. I can still remember getting on tape one of the coolest sounding metallic/robotic sounds.

The classic Arp 2600, heard on its most famous example - Frankenstein:  @ 3:16 in

https://youtu.be/65XSHM3jlAY