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File next to: Philip Glass<\/b>, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark<\/b>, Brian Eno<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Memorymoog was the last synthesizer produced by Moog Music during the original company’s run; while a deeply versatile and expressive instrument, its complex inner workings made it highly unreliable, and that contributed both to the damaging of Moog’s reputation and to the company’s 1986 bankruptcy (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/29\/the-bob-moog-foundation\/\"><b>Dr. Bob Moog<\/b><\/a> later founded a second Moog Music that is quite successful). Nominally a jazz musician, <b>Matthew Bourne<\/b> moved into more avant-garde and electronic sounds more than a decade ago. His third album, <i>moogmemory<\/i>, was realized solely on a retrofitted Memorymoog. The album is far less experimental than one might suspect, and the results are fascinating: soothing yet intriguing (and often surprisingly melodic) melodies that have the feel of Brian Eno’s <i>Another Green World<\/i>-era instrumentals, albeit without a rock aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>This review appeared previously in the <em>Colorado Springs Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Philip Glass, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Brian Eno The Memorymoog was the last synthesizer produced by Moog Music during the original company’s run; while a deeply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,40,49,65],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ambient","category-avant-garde","category-instrumental","category-new-release","category-review","tag-matthew-bourne","cat-5-id","cat-7-id","cat-40-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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