Andrew Kazdin & Thomas Z. Shepard - Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog [Full Album]
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- Full Album Title: Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog* (*But Were Afraid to Ask For)
Release Date: 1973
Genre: Space Age Pop
Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Label: CBS
Catalog Number: 73146
Condition: Good.
Tracklisting:
A1. Chabrier: España 0:00
A2. Lecuona: Malaguena 6:22
A3. Bizet: "Carmen": Prelude to Act 1; Habanera; Introduction to Act 1 9:44
B. Ravel: Bolero 15:17
'Produced by Andrew Kazdin and Thomas Z. Shepard
Were you really afraid to ask?
Somebody, at least, must have been, because such a recording has never been done before - a collection of orchestral showpieces performed entirely on the Moog Synthesizer, that awesome array of oscillators, filters and amplifiers. We think that what you wanted to hear was an album of your favorite works - pieces whose inherent brilliance and rhythmic drive make them a "natural" for this kind of treatment. What could be more exciting than an album of Spanish music? (The consistency of our Spanish program, you will note, is marred only by the fact that Lecuona was not a French composer.)
But to get back to those oscillators, filters and amplifiers: There is an all-too-common misconception that the synthesizer has a mind of its own - that it's a computer, that you plug it in and it plays music. WRONG. Although electronic, the synthesizer is a real musical instrument - it has a piano-like keyboard and a musician must play it. (In this particular case, two musicians, who also divided the tasks of score analysis, manuscript copying, and selection of tone colors. It is almost impossible to remember who did what when, but Kazdin has a distinct recollection that he did all the electronic programming.)
Let it be said before going any further that every sound on this record, literally hundreds of sonorities representing real or imagined instruments - and that includes the enthusiastic response of well-wishers at the end of Bolero - was made on the Moog Synthesizer.
There is one more thing that ought to be said: The Moog used for the album (is there anybody still left who doesn't know that "Moog" rhymes with "rogue"?) is capable of producing only one or two notes simultaneously. This means that each of the melodic and harmonic threads contained in the original orchestral scores had to be played individually. Sometimes as many as twenty musical elements had to be overlayed on multi-track tape.
Does this proces sound complicated?
Are our nerves a little bit frazzled?
Did it take a long time?
Don't ask.
Andrew Kazdin, Thomas Z. Shepard
Andrew Kazdin holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Master of Science in Industrial Management (with a concentration in acoustics) from M.I.T. He is a Producer in the Masterworks Department of C.B.S. Records and has contributed to several C.B.S. albums as arranger and conductor. In addition, he is a composer with several published works. He is also a timpanist and plays professionally in the New York area.
Thomas Z. Shepard is a Producer for C.B.S. Records, both Masterworks and Original Cast albums. After graduating from the Preparatory Division of the Juilliard School of Music, he earned his Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College, majoring in Piano and Composition. This was followed by graduate work in Composition at the Yale School of Music. He has composed, arranged and conducted on several C.B.S. albums. He is active as a pianist, particularly in the field of chamber music.
To provide an accurate list of all the C.B.S. Recording Engineers who worked with us on this project over its two-year gestation period would be practically identical to providing a roster of the department staff. We thank them all. However, it would be grossly unjust if special mention were not made, and special thanks not paid, to Stew Romain, Raymond Moore and Robert Waller, each of whom mixed an extra drop of blood with our own along the way.
A.K., T.Z.S.
Engineering: Stew Romain, Raymond Moore, Robert Waller
Cover art: Tomi Ungerer/Cover design: John Berg'
Thomas Z. Shepard is a genius!!
This is one of my favorite Synthesizer records!
YES! Mine, as well. I practically wore out the vinyl on this album from playing it so much!!
i still have the album. Thanks for posting. Love the entire recording.
I had the 8Track umpteen years ago... Long lost to life’s ins and outs...
As to this vinyl recording; I still love the music and I love the pops and ticks. You can't get that kind of personality out of a CD! lovingly played over and over... :)
Thanks!
LOL 8 Track those are awful. I'd rather have the Vinyl.
I just noticed, the conductor has two right hands! XD
+Eric Silkowski I have had that album for about 30 years, and I had never noticed that. lol. Thanks for letting me know this. :)
Glad to know I'm not the only one!! :))
it's not a conductor but a semi-conductor, look at the credits on the album cover carefully
My uncle had this record and I loved listening to it :)
Love this album !
The few scratches or pops, makes this recording so unique. It sounds superb coming through on my Hi-Fi. I have this very self same vinyl in my collection too. but feel too sorry to play it on my vinyl player ! :)
I might record this onto a blank CrO2 cassette later...
Oh... I have that record since 1973. 42 years ago this year.
vintage vinyl.. loved this when I was a kid. my dad is into electronic music
I have this on reel to reel
Me too!
Thanks a lot for this... sure a time travel experience to when I was sixteen...... way back to 1982
Thank you! I love this album. ❤️
A lot of this sounds positively "Residential" and had I not known ahead of time who did this album, I would have thought it was an effort from The Residents themselves. [......pause......] Oh, man, I just got the "Semi Conducted by Andrew, etc. ..." Very cute!
I used watch the Xmas tree lights blinking while listening to the album
Maravilloso!!!
I have never seen the liner notes of this album. Because the Japanese version of this album printed same picture both sides. I am happy for learn their message. Thank you.
You can literally hallucinate objects and beings into existence because what's happening is you're tapping into that pure abstract creative potential of mind. That's exactly what you want. Of course it can be kind of freaky but a Moog is that times a thousand. See so again the point is not to achieve some blissful state or to see some cool colors or to travel to some new dimension you can do all those things. That's nice, that's fun. The point is the lessons the insights you get and the meta understanding of how this entire process works because as you're exploring all your different domains you're learning about your own mind. How the mind of God is generating reality and why it's generating it.
My favorite music.
Brings back memories driving to my nans in the valant listening to this on the 8track 😂
Superb!
I've had this album since it was released, one of my real favorites. One of the things I really appreciated about it is that they were not taking things too seriously, they were having fun and really taking full advantage of what you can do with a large, Moog modular synthesizer if you really let loose and have fun with it.
I have always wanted one of those large, beautiful Moog modulars but, they were always way out of my reach. The good news now though, is I have two software simulations in the form of VST plugins for my digital audio workstation, Arturia Modular V, and Cherry Adeo's. 900 collection of modules for their Voltage Modular VST plugin. No, they don't sound absolutely the same as the real, vintage hardware but, nothing at this point can; even the most powerful of today's Macs or PCs are far from being powerful enough to be able to run something that processor-heavy but, they are damn close enough to really have some fun with it.
I just noticed the sound quality is WAY better in this then the other upload which in a ironic sense doesn't allow commenting. Geez I wonder why........ :) The other upload sounds like it was uploaded thru a smartphone with the crap speakers so your forced to adjust volume if your on PC.
At 12:46, sounds like something from Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach unforgettable groundbreaking album! :-D
Id say the two right hands means the Moog is Monophonic.
So why does the other channel disable comments and have tracklisting way off? Were they high on something?
Is there more music of Andrew Kazdin?
I read it as "Hearon"
Was the release date really 1973? I know there are some places online that (erroneously) list it as 1967, but I thought it was from 1972?
73
So, I found via a billboard magazine review that it came out in August(or there about) of 1971.
Album was edited by Columbia in 1971 and several copies deposited in the Library of Congress.
According Billboard (Sept 1971) the album took 450 studio hours . On Billboard Best Selling Classical LPs "Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog" was #23 (Sept 1971) Walter Carlos "Switched-on-Bach" was #1, "Well tempered synthesizer" was #8.
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Took tomita a year to do snow flakes are dancing
the other one disables comments. weird.
funny how all the comments are from two years ago on most vids. guess people are finally tired of being slaves to their ****phones.