From mkang@ox.ac.uk Mon Nov 04 00:09:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!mkang From: mkang@ox.ac.uk (Mikhail Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Nov04.000918.1434@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:09:18 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. Did anyone ever see Luna Gray perform live, or was she exclusively a satellite playback act? -- Mikhail Kang | mkang@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 6794 A4FC 640E A247 "Keep the channels open." From kgarcia@kth.se Wed Nov 06 00:45:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!kgarcia From: kgarcia@kth.se (Karen García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Nov06.004518.6804@kth.se> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:45:18 GMT References: <1996Nov04.000918.1434@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov04.000918.1434@ox.ac.uk>, mkang@ox.ac.uk (Mikhail Kang) writes: > Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. Line 06: 'DO NOT WORSHIP THE COPY.' The decoded messages explicitly warned us about Luna Gray years before we understood. -- Karen García Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jsmirnov@cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 08 00:47:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!jsmirnov From: jsmirnov@cam.ac.uk (Ji-woo Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Nov08.004718.1161@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 00:47:18 GMT References: <1996Nov04.000918.1434@ox.ac.uk> <1996Nov06.004518.6804@kth.se> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov06.004518.6804@kth.se>, kgarcia@kth.se (Karen García) writes: > Line 06: 'DO NOT WORSHIP THE COPY.' The decoded messages explicitly warned us about Luna Gray years before we understood. Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel. -- Ji-woo Smirnov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From jwatanabe@cern.ch Fri Nov 08 02:43:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!jwatanabe From: jwatanabe@cern.ch (Julien Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Nov08.024318.9386@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 02:43:18 GMT References: <1996Nov04.000918.1434@ox.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov04.000918.1434@ox.ac.uk>, mkang@ox.ac.uk (Mikhail Kang) writes: > Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. > The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. -- Julien Watanabe Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Marcus is not one man." From nrodriguez@clari.net Sat Nov 09 04:07:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!nrodriguez From: nrodriguez@clari.net (Natalia Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Nov09.040718.4344@clari.net> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 04:07:18 GMT References: <1996Nov04.000918.1434@ox.ac.uk> <1996Nov08.024318.9386@cern.ch> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Nov08.024318.9386@cern.ch>, jwatanabe@cern.ch (Julien Watanabe) writes: > The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. I bought 'Glass Hours' the week it came out and returned it the next day. It felt completely hollow. -- Natalia Rodríguez -- ClariNet Communications Corp "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."