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Richard Devine is a next level spaghetti master!
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already posted here by @fredrik but another track 
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I’ve just found a Jools Holland podcast where musicians present their choice of performances, some from the Later TV series and others not. This is how I found Lyra Pramuk. This is fantastic!
(For some reason a link to the album Fountain on bandcamp isn’t showing here for me.)
Amazing tracks.
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For a couple of years in the nineties, I fell asleep to this every night/morning. I would turn in down so that I could just barely hear it. To this day, I think it’s by far the track I’ve listened to the most.
Still have it:
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It sounds like the kind of stuff I was into in the seventies. Klaus Schultze, Tangerine Dream and so on. I would have loved to give this piece an extended listen, but I find the record surface noise very distracting (especially at the ~0.5 hertz rate that comes with 33 RPM recordings.) This is one of the reasons why I was one of the first people in my region of England to buy a CD player, in 1982. The modern fashion for vinyl mystifies me, and I speak as somebody who collects slide rules as a hobby.
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I dig it. Thanks for sharing.
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I got into an Enya rabbit hole. Here is Sumiregusa, sung in Japanese by Enya, inspired by a work by the 17th century poet Matsuo Bashō.
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Enya’s music it too calm for me, but beleive it or not i’ve been inside their recording studio a few times for maintenance work. There is a storage rack with several old analog synths, but i can’t remember which ones.
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I know what you mean. Not a lot of angst, no normal human feelings at all. A lot of her songs are basically hymns to the spirit of optimism. She’s a brilliant musician, though, and defies classification. Those multilayered compositions are stunningly beautiful.
You did maintenance work at the studio? I was reading her Wikipedia article the other day and it mentions a studio called Aigle, in Killiney near Enya’s current home.
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I dont listen to Enya often, and its not in my top faves, but I wouldnt want to live in a world where that music didnt exist.
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@Bitnik: Yes, the studio is on pivate property and stricktly off limits. I had to do maintenance and software updates on the main audio console, the biggest that our company ever built.
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@Bitnik: despite all, these visits were still inspirational. I talked with Nicky Ryan, the producer and owner of the studio, and he explained me his workflow. Enya sings the voice track multiple times and in different pitches. Like a big choir of Enyas that is then spread in panorama and drenched in reverbs and delays.
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Would seem odd to emphasize something so obvious, but I understand Enya has become a magnet for stalkers over the years. The article I mentioned above even mentions the castle she lives in has been broken into a couple of times.
Yikes! The worst Dietrich Buxtehude had to deal with was this young church organist who walked 250 miles to meet him and stayed for three months. Bach was no stalker, though.
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I only listened to it the first time because of that Holly Goodhead Robot face, now it haunts me.
This sounds to me like an 808 with a couple of Bontempis-and it works!
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The multitracking bit reminded me of this entertaining interview with ABBA’s engineering wizard. They usually double-tracked things iiuc, but on the other hand they had more voices to play with. But then you had to squeeze everything into 24 tracks, most of which you had already filled with something more important:
That means that there are two empty tracks left at lunchtime, and it’s time to reduce the 16 Moog tracks to make room for the vocal track that the record-buyers so urgently demand. […] We do a lot of ping-ponging with the voices to save tracks for the Moogs. (Every song can be improved by adding a few Moogs!)
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For all the Sci-Fi fans here and an obituary to the great german composer Peter Thomas who died 2 weeks ago. We are all stardust.
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