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don preston - filters, oscillators & envelopes 1967 - 1982 - sub rosa - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Track 1
2. Analog Heaven #1
3. Analog Heaven #2
4. Analog Heaven #3
5. Analog Heaven #4
6. Analog Heaven #5
7. Analog Heaven #6
8. Analog Heaven #7

Previously-unreleased electronic music from original The Mothers Of Invention keyboardist, Don Preston!

Immersed in jazz music, he was imagining secret ties with the nascent electronic music. In the mid-'60s, Preston started developing an electronic instrument, using a home-made synthesizer and a series of oscillators and filters. Out of this instrument came "Electronic Music" (1967), his first piece. Two years later, he became a close friend of Robert Moog, and their discussions gave birth to a number of applications in relation with the flexibility of the instrument. Nowadays, you can't mention the Mini-Moog without thinking of Preston. Bob Moog himself said about his solo in "Waka/Jawaka": "That's impossible. You can't do that on a Moog." Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes features the other side, the hidden side of Don Preston: the composer of purely electronic music.