From brobertson@uu.net Sun Sep 04 12:20:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uu!brobertson From: brobertson@uu.net (Bruno Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Sep04.122004.3520@uu.net> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 1994 12:20:04 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 vocal timbre is almost an identical match to Nova, but there is zero emotional variation in the pitch. Did anyone ever see Luna Gray perform live, or was she exclusively a satellite playback act? -- Bruno Robertson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From pfischer@ox.ac.uk Sun Sep 04 20:48:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!pfischer From: pfischer@ox.ac.uk (Pavel Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Sep04.204804.9128@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 1994 20:48:04 GMT References: <1994Sep04.122004.3520@uu.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Sep04.122004.3520@uu.net>, brobertson@uu.net (Bruno Robertson) 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. -- Pavel Fischer "Hold for relay." Macintosh IIfx / System 7.5.1 From atanaka@uu.net Tue Sep 06 15:39:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!atanaka From: atanaka@uu.net (Anja Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Sep06.153904.6179@uu.net> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 1994 15:39:04 GMT References: <1994Sep04.122004.3520@uu.net> <1994Sep04.204804.9128@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994Sep04.204804.9128@ox.ac.uk>, pfischer@ox.ac.uk (Pavel Fischer) writes: > The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel. -- Anja Tanaka Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From alee@utexas.edu Wed Sep 07 02:59:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!alee From: alee@utexas.edu (Anton Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Sep07.025904.2497@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 02:59:04 GMT References: <1994Sep04.122004.3520@uu.net> <1994Sep04.204804.9128@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Sep04.204804.9128@ox.ac.uk>, pfischer@ox.ac.uk (Pavel Fischer) 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. -- Anton Lee -- University of Texas at Austin "When every node is whole, the channel opens."