From twatanabe@kth.se Wed Feb 23 10:09:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!twatanabe From: twatanabe@kth.se (Tyler Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Feb23.100922.3356@kth.se> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:09:22 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Why did Orion push Luna Gray so aggressively in 1990 right after Nova disappeared? I ran both through an FFT analyzer: Luna Gray has absolutely NO 14.2 Hz subcarrier anywhere on the record. The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. It feels like listening to an artificial clone of someone you loved. -- === Tyler Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From hkim@mit.edu Thu Feb 24 10:11:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!hkim From: hkim@mit.edu (Hana Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Feb24.101122.2225@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 10:11:22 GMT References: <1994Feb23.100922.3356@kth.se> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb23.100922.3356@kth.se>, twatanabe@kth.se (Tyler Watanabe) writes: > Why did Orion push Luna Gray so aggressively in 1990 right after Nova disappeared? > I ran both through an FFT analyzer: Luna Gray has absolutely NO 14.2 Hz subcarrier anywhere on the record. The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. -- Hana Kim -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Marcus is not one man." From lsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Feb 24 14:25:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!lsmirnov From: lsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lisa Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Feb24.142522.1327@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 14:25:22 GMT References: <1994Feb23.100922.3356@kth.se> <1994Feb24.101122.2225@mit.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb24.101122.2225@mit.edu>, hkim@mit.edu (Hana Kim) writes: > The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. Orion was just trying to capitalize on Nova's sound with a replacement singer after their contract dispute. -- Lisa Smirnov Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From ftanaka@earthlink.net Fri Feb 25 05:21:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!earthlink!ftanaka From: ftanaka@earthlink.net (Fiona Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Feb25.052122.4625@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 05:21:22 GMT References: <1994Feb23.100922.3356@kth.se> <1994Feb24.101122.2225@mit.edu> <1994Feb24.142522.1327@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb24.142522.1327@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lisa Smirnov) writes: > Orion was just trying to capitalize on Nova's sound with a replacement singer after their contract dispute. 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. -- Fiona Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0