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Showing posts with label MOTHER MALLARDS PORTABLE MASTERPIECE COMPANY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOTHER MALLARDS PORTABLE MASTERPIECE COMPANY. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Electronic Easter
(via Cuneiform Records)
On Easter 2020,
Cuneiform Records celebrates the 50th Anniversary of
"EASTER,"
a landmark work in the
history of electronic music and in
contemporary classical & minimalist composition,
created by
composer/ keyboardist/ electronic music pioneer
David Borden,
with a stream
of his 1970 recording of "Easter"
"Easter" was recorded in 1970 by
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company
- the World's First All-Synthesizer Ensemble -
and Released by Cuneiform Records on the album:
1970-1973
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Zorch - the UK's first all synthesiser band, apparently
so were Mother Mallard the US's first?
there was also these dudes, not quite a band
but talking of UK synth bands -- I can't find the really amazing prog-synth track by Wavemaker (Brian Hodgson ex-Radiophonic Workshop + pal) that's on New Atlantis and that flashes forward to Orbital's Chime".... But this here is something else from the album preceding it, not nearly as good
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