Moogmemory

moogmemory
Studio album by Matthew Bourne
Released 4 March 2016
Genre electronic, avant-garde, experimental
Label The Leaf Label
Producer Matthew Bourne and Sam Hobbs
Matthew Bourne chronology
Montauk Variations
(2012)		 moogmemory
(2016)

moogmemory is the second solo studio album by English improvising pianist and synthesiser player Matthew Bourne. His first album, Montauk Variations, was a series of compositions for solo piano, but moogmemory sees Bourne performing only on the Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog, a specially altered Memorymoog synthesiser. The album will be released on 4 March 2016 on The Leaf Label.

Background

Despite his reputation as a pianist, in 2013 Bourne was commissioned by the Marsden Jazz Festival to perform a programme of solo synthesiser music, and he titled the project The Matthew Bourne Synthesiser Show in tribute to the work of Annette Peacock and Paul Bley. In this performance Bourne performed on a variety of analogue synthesisers including an "uncooperative" 1982 Memorymoog.[1][2] After this project, Bourne had the Memorymoog sent to Germany where Rudi Lanhard converted it into the Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog (LAMM), the instrument on which moogmemory would be performed and recorded. The process of turning the Memorymoog into the LAMM is "the Memorymoog equivalent of open heart surgery, which replaces 1,300 components over eight weeks of bench time, costing as much as a new machine".[3] The material for the album began from these improvised live performances, and was later honed by Bourne in his home studio in West Yorkshire. moogmemory is the first album ever recorded to feature only the Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog.[4]

Track listing

All tracks by Matthew Bourne. Recorded in Airedale and Wharfdale August–November 2014, apart from track 9 which was recorded at Marsden Jazz Festival, 12 October 2013.

No. Title Length
1. "Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (For Coral Evans)"   7:07
2. "Alexs"   6:46
3. "Nils"   5:42
4. "On Rivock Edge"   9:52
5. "Sam"   4:36
6. "Andrew"   4:08
7. "Horn and Vellum"   6:54
8. "Daniziel"   5:26
9. "I Loved Her, Madly"   12:27

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ . Matthew Bourne. September 27, 2013 http://matthewbourne.com/blog/bourne-synthesiser-show/. Retrieved December 10, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ . The Leaf Label. December 8, 2015 http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/artists/view/51/Matthew%20Bourne. Retrieved December 10, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ . The Leaf Label. December 8, 2015 http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/releases/view/224/Matthew%20Bourne/moogmemory/BAY%2093CD. Retrieved December 10, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ . The Leaf Label. December 8, 2015 http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/artists/view/51/Matthew%20Bourne. Retrieved December 10, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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