Saturday, 3 January 2026

Some Requests: Claude Rodap-Fregate Orchestra's 1986 Syn-Ka

 


October Country:

This is just fantastic, like a reminder of Springtime and new, free flowing energy :)

Alert! We have a genre-hopping, phase-shifting, strange and wonderful little UFO here >>> cool proto-prog morphing into space-disco jams with multi-synth leads: Cosmic!

Take the Steve Robinson - Its A Lie Lp, blended with elements of Michel Magne's - Moshe Mouse Crucifixion and Zeus B.Held.... mix in Mort Garson ..............out of this world, yes.

Just look at that album cover, we know they were time-travelers.

...3rd song, 'Synthetic Love', that repeating synth-chorus and bossa nova beat brings to mind a final hurrah, like a last celebration, sailing away from everything we ever knew into the new.

...next song, 'Fregate', continues the vibe with a solemn but hopeful piano refrain and surf-like sounds....love it.

First track:




Thursday, 1 January 2026

Some Requests: Vingioi - Very Well, from 1979 Italia




 Artist information here (real name with too many i's is Vincenzo Gioieni. Note that the earlier 1976 library album is unavailable digitally (so far).  Anyone have it too though to share?  Presumably the same style, of mixed library music but nicely performed and very typical, dare I say generic, for ex., Septic: