Galactic Pleasures: My First Album

I composed and produced an album back in 1990 called Galactic Pleasures. I was 25 at the time. When it was made I had been playing keyboards about 7 years, and owned 2 synthesizers - a Roland Juno 6, and the phenomenal Korg M-1. For recording I had a 4 track analog with mixer. I then transposed it to DAT, and there it sat for years. I tried a few times to get my music published, but this was before the internet, and I had limited resources to make it happen. Music is very near and dear to my heart... almost a constant narrative running through my life. But life has a way of shifting priorities around. Music composition has fallen into the background, hibernating for a time to flouring in my life again. Until then I thought I'd share some of my work with you.

Galactic Pleasures was composed mostly in my head. Sometimes, I can hear 6 or 7 different tracks all going simultaneously. That was the way it was this album. It was also composed during a very high time in my life. During that time I swear I was living out on the spaceways more than here. I was also able to record about 8 minutes onto a single track directly into the M-1, as it had 4 megs of storage. So I would take it with me on trips during the summer of '90 out into the remote regions of Arizona and let the music out of my head onto the keyboard.

I was deeply influenced by the cutting edge electronic and space music of the time. I never cared if my music was accepted by anyone else, it was my way of accessing higher states of consciousness. To this day I'm not sure what genre my music would fall under - perhaps 'space fusion'.

I've added the first 2 tracks of this album to the media section. They are:

Paradise Found.mp3 (9mb) and Heartbreak.mp3 (9mp)

The guitar you'll hear on these tracks was completely synthesized.

Enjoy.

Posted by paul at February 13, 2005 01:56 AM