Syrinx-LONG LOST RELATIVES (1971)

The first Syrinx album attracted enough positive interest here that I've decided to post the second one.
While I personally prefer the first one, this album is more ambitious, better recorded (the percussionist can be clearly heard this time), and adds a choir,a classical percussionist with batterie and a string section to the basic instrumentation of Synthesizers,Amplified and Processed Alto Saxophone and Hand Percussion.
Everything is more refined on this album - compare this album's reprised treatment of "Field Hymn" with the first album's version and you'll hear what I mean.

Some excerpted notes from the gatefold (enclosed):

(...)There's a touch here and there of the Columbia-Princeton kind of electronic composition in Mills-Cockell's romantic approach to his music.
He likes textures- at any time there might be two or three different distances, the music and the echo of the music simultaneously.
Pringle...fits neatly into this web: He sounds -to me- something between King Curtis and Sonny Stitt,with a few tricks of his own, but Wells's playing is more elusive.It's there- always. If you can't hear it, you can sense it.And like any good drummer, he seems to contain the other's music, etc, giving it a framework(...)
-Peter Goddard












Syrinx-Long Lost Relatives (1971 True North)

Side One:

1-Tumblers To The Vault
2-Syren
3-December Angel

Side Two:

4-Ibistix
5-Field Hymn (Epilogue)
6-Tillicum
7-Better Deaf And Dumb From The First
8-Aurora Spinray























John Mills-Cockell: Arp Synthesizer,Moog Synthesizer,Keyboards
Doug Pringle: Saxophone,Guiro,Bongos,Bells
Alan Wells: Congas,Tympani,Gongs,Tambourines

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