From rmuller@kth.se Wed Oct 09 03:21:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!rmuller From: rmuller@kth.se (Raj Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 03:21:44 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. Line 05 in the decoded matrix said it plainly: 'THEY WILL SEND A COPY IN MY PLACE.' -- === Raj Müller === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From tduarte@inria.fr Fri Oct 11 02:47:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!tduarte From: tduarte@inria.fr (Thiago Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct11.024744.9346@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 02:47:44 GMT References: <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se>, rmuller@kth.se (Raj Müller) writes: > Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. A session musician in Burbank told me that Luna Gray never set foot in the vocal booth. The tracks were assembled from Marcus's voice model. -- Thiago Duarte -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Hold for relay." From gito@purdue.edu Sun Oct 13 03:24:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!gito From: gito@purdue.edu (Göran Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct13.032444.7012@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:24:44 GMT References: <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se>, rmuller@kth.se (Raj Müller) writes: > Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. > The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. -- Göran Ito *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From boliveira@tum.de Mon Oct 14 17:29:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!boliveira From: boliveira@tum.de (Brian Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct14.172944.8017@tum.de> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:29:44 GMT References: <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se>, rmuller@kth.se (Raj Müller) writes: > Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. > The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Brian Oliveira "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Amiga 3000T / Linux 1.2.13 From jsilva@earthlink.net Tue Oct 15 00:56:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!jsilva From: jsilva@earthlink.net (Jens Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct15.005644.2827@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:56:44 GMT References: <1996Oct09.032144.1669@kth.se> <1996Oct14.172944.8017@tum.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct14.172944.8017@tum.de>, boliveira@tum.de (Brian Oliveira) writes: > Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. I bought 'Glass Hours' the week it came out and returned it the next day. It felt completely hollow. -- Jens Silva -- EarthLink Network "Row 14. No joke."