Monday 13 July 2020

Patrick H. Murphy, Segments followed by Logic




Here's a remarkably unknown artist apparently hailing out of CO, USA, who self-released on cassette and/or CDR operating in the genre of 'electronic' prog, perhaps most similarly to the Danna and Clement I posted earlier.  You can see that starting in 1986 with Segments, highly unfashionable at the time, he put out a slew of albums throughout the 80s, the 90s, irrespective of the musical zeitgeist obviously.  I have here his first two which are quite similar, with the digital keyboard sound and fake percussion and occasionally vocalizing plus acoustic guitar in the usual mildly Genesis-like (Gabriel) manner.  The compositions are interesting though, this is not boring drony electronic, but rather thought-out songs like for example Germans Luna Set.
Could also be compared to our lovely Busser's Warship Suite, if you recall, with a bit less inventiveness / variety.

The song-like material is exemplified by the second track on the first release, called Trillian:





The interesting chord progressions of the arpeggiated acoustic guitar on the track called Logic (for cm) give you a taste of the proggyness to be encountered here too, from the second album (obviously):





For those who enjoy electronic music, this is a blessing indeed.
Oddly rare for the prog fans I believe, worth seeking out for sure and hunting down more.



3 comments:


  1. https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/0XQD24uP/file.html



    https://www.sendspace.com/file/xicuc6

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  2. I knew Patrick, and I have some of his tapes and CDs that he sent to me as they came out. My favorite has always been the "HELION" release, which came out in the late '80s.You can find each track on Youtube, where somebody apparently put it up.

    We used to speak on the phone, even when it became evident that I would not be moving to Colorado to live with him. He was a gentle and beautiful soul. Everything you hear in him reflects the graceful soul within. Unfortunately, he also carried quite a bit of pain in his heart.

    Patrick passed away in January of 2007. I just discovered this page and review this evening, as I was once again searching for his obituary,

    I am so glad that his music is living on through your appreciation of it.

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  3. Very nice. Thanks for sharing, Sherrye.

    ~ A kindred spirit

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