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Hi all


I have been digging around and found another moog album playing the
classics.

called Moog Strikes Bach - to say nothing of Chopin, Mozart and
Rachmaninoff, Paganini and Prokofieff.

by Hans Worman released in 1970 excellent sound quality and my next project
to clean up and burn to cd.

any body on the list remember this album ????


regards to all

Philip


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philip wrote:
>
> Isao Tomita Mailing List - http://listen.to/tomita/
>
> Hi all
>
> I have been digging around and found another moog album playing the
> classics.
>
> called Moog Strikes Bach - to say nothing of Chopin, Mozart and
> Rachmaninoff, Paganini and Prokofieff.
>
> by Hans Worman released in 1970 excellent sound quality and my next project
> to clean up and burn to cd.
>
> any body on the list remember this album ????
>
> regards to all
>
> Philip
>

Hans Wurman and it might have been '69.

I felt that while not crap it came off pretty stiff/heavy handed. Yes,
the sound quality is good, he was an engineer I think. The patches are
way sub-Carlos or Tomita but the album is better than most.

He did a later album "Chopin a la Moog" (1970)that was all Chopin but he
cheated and used a string section with just the leads played by Moogs.
Has a very spirit-of-the-era cover illustration of 6 ink and watercolor
portraits of Chopin each looking more like a hippy with the final chopin
complete with long hair, beard, tie die bandana, love beads, etc. Of
course Wurman himself seemed rather square on the first album. No
picture of him on the Chopin album.

Note that the album came out on RCA, like Tomita some years later. More
contemporary with Tomita and also on RCA I have Ataraxia's (= Mort
Garson's) "The Unexplained" which is also a big moog album but original
music, not cover versions. Garson is pretty interesting in that he kept
using his big Moog a lot so he was quite good by the early 70s... then
he stopped.

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Got this 1999 book "Japan Edge" which various U.S. writers write about
the pop (sub)culture they specialize in. Nothing much about music I
enjoy except for plenty of refrences to Buffalo Daughter. Anyway the
Tomita connection is the guy writing about sort of wild and trashy
movies puts "The Last Days of Planet Earth" (Toho, 1974, apparently
currently out in the U.S. on Paramount Home Video) near the top of his
list of good and easy to find movies. Now I don't know if the American
version has Tomita's music, I've never seen it, and watch out there are
some other films with similar names. But in Japan the film definitely
had a Tomita score **using lots of Moog** and was often called
"Catastrophe 1999: Nostradamus' Prophecy". Several soundtracks came out
including the theme as a single and a 1996 release of all the raw film
cues in mono off he master tapes.


nick

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