Back in 1973 modular synthesisers and sequencers were expensive, complicated and temperamental things. For this album, the band spent their advance on buying the latest technology available from Moog and then had to spend hours each day tinkering with it before they could start recording. Even when you finally got the sounds you were trying for, the analogue capacitors in the machines would start overheating and affecting the output in unpredictable ways. This can be heard on the title piece, a seventeen minute improvisation in the studio, where the sound starts to go a little wonky towards the end.
The end result is still something magical though - it has a warmth and random charm that is missing from modern digital synths and production technology, and the music points the way towards things like ambient and even acid house and dub sounds from decades in the future from when this was made. Genuine, pioneering musical genius.
Synth-tastic!
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