From jpark@cam.ac.uk Sun Dec 15 02:37:15 1996
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From: jpark@cam.ac.uk (Jen Park)
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Subject: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison
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Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about.

The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers.
I ran both through an FFT analyzer: Luna Gray has absolutely NO 14.2 Hz subcarrier anywhere on the record.

It feels like listening to an artificial clone of someone you loved.

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From tkuznetsov@unam.mx Sun Dec 15 13:09:15 1996
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From: tkuznetsov@unam.mx (Takeshi Kuznetsov)
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Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison
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In article <1996Dec15.023715.1204@cam.ac.uk>, jpark@cam.ac.uk (Jen Park) 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 songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers.

Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel.

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From emoreno@clari.net Mon Dec 16 04:43:15 1996
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From: emoreno@clari.net (Emi Moreno)
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Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison
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In article <1996Dec15.130915.2221@unam.mx>, tkuznetsov@unam.mx (Takeshi Kuznetsov) writes:
> Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel.

The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990.

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From lchoi@panix.com Tue Dec 17 02:04:15 1996
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Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison
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In article <1996Dec15.023715.1204@cam.ac.uk>, jpark@cam.ac.uk (Jen Park) 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 songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers.

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.

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