Concerts are unique experiences especially when the musicians on stage are improvising. Tracks grow and build only to be torn down and from the sonic debris the next piece slowly coalesces and takes its own shape.
This organic process comes naturally to DiN label boss Ian Boddy and his long time musical collaborator Nigel Mullaney. They have between them a wealth of experience both on the DiN label and in the commercial world of music production. Utilising an array of modular synth racks as well as hands on sequencers and drum machines the duo can constantly mold and shape their performances. Along with Boddy’s signature Ondes Martenot synth lead lines and Mullaney’s tasty Moog keyboard licks Schemes & Ruses is an audio document of their performance at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on 2nd March 2019. The evening was a celebration of the DiN label and it’s 20th year anniversary and the duo were supported by d’Voxx who recently released their debut album Télégraphe (DiN58) on the label.
The music starts in mysterious fashion with the enigmatic “Hidden Rooms” which builds to an astonishing orchestral climax before the steady, insistent drum grooves of Mullaney take over. Boddy’s Berlin School tinted sequence lines intertwine with these rhythms as the performance takes the listener on a sonic journey from ambient atmospheres to toe tapping slices of up tempo electronica that slowly increase in intensity to the heavily sequenced encore track “Showdown”.
This organic process comes naturally to DiN label boss Ian Boddy and his long time musical collaborator Nigel Mullaney. They have between them a wealth of experience both on the DiN label and in the commercial world of music production. Utilising an array of modular synth racks as well as hands on sequencers and drum machines the duo can constantly mold and shape their performances. Along with Boddy’s signature Ondes Martenot synth lead lines and Mullaney’s tasty Moog keyboard licks Schemes & Ruses is an audio document of their performance at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on 2nd March 2019. The evening was a celebration of the DiN label and it’s 20th year anniversary and the duo were supported by d’Voxx who recently released their debut album Télégraphe (DiN58) on the label.
The music starts in mysterious fashion with the enigmatic “Hidden Rooms” which builds to an astonishing orchestral climax before the steady, insistent drum grooves of Mullaney take over. Boddy’s Berlin School tinted sequence lines intertwine with these rhythms as the performance takes the listener on a sonic journey from ambient atmospheres to toe tapping slices of up tempo electronica that slowly increase in intensity to the heavily sequenced encore track “Showdown”.
Released on the download only sub-label of DiN Schemes & Ruses showcases two musicians whose natural habitat is as much on the stage as in a studio and captures a mesmerising one off evening of live electronic music.
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released November 15, 2019
All tracks composed, played and produced by Ian Boddy & Nigel Mullaney.
Recorded live at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on 2nd March 2019.
Mixed & mastered by Nigel Mullaney (May 2019).
Cover image Wendy Carroll
Concert promotion Neil Campbell
Sound engineer & lights David Williams
Ian Boddy:
Eurorack modular, Roland System 500, Analogue Systems French Connection, Folktek Resonant Garden
Nigel Mullaney:
Eurorack modular, Polyend SEQ, Elektron Digitone & Digitaky, Moog Sub37
www.ianboddy.com
www.nigelmullaney.com
All tracks composed, played and produced by Ian Boddy & Nigel Mullaney.
Recorded live at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on 2nd March 2019.
Mixed & mastered by Nigel Mullaney (May 2019).
Cover image Wendy Carroll
Concert promotion Neil Campbell
Sound engineer & lights David Williams
Ian Boddy:
Eurorack modular, Roland System 500, Analogue Systems French Connection, Folktek Resonant Garden
Nigel Mullaney:
Eurorack modular, Polyend SEQ, Elektron Digitone & Digitaky, Moog Sub37
www.ianboddy.com
www.nigelmullaney.com
Intergalactic Touring Band
The Intergalactic Touring Band (IGTB) was not an actual music group but rather a science fiction pop music concept album released in 1977 by the now defunct Passport Records in America and Charisma Records in England. The ensemble album featured many star performers from progressive rock and other genres, including Meat Loaf, Ben E. King, Larry Fast (Synergy), Percy Jones, Annie Haslam, Rod Argent, Peppi Marchello (Good Rats),[1] and many others. The songs are loosely held together by an epic theme of multi-generational space travel and human space colonization.
Fictional band members[edit]
- Hope Larson — Lase Keyboard Panel
- Ixol Phaane — Computerized Keyboard Synthesis
- Justice Conrad — Globe Lase Base
- Krys — Holographic Percussion
- Raif Reed — Lase Guitar
List of songs and performers[edit]
- Approach (Overture)
- Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
- Orchestral arrangement by Wil Malone
- Synthesizers and Mellotron: Larry Fast
- Silver Lady
- Lead vocal: Rod Argent
- Acoustic and electric guitars: David Scance
- Fender bass: Peter Sobel
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Synthesizers, Mellotron and vocoder: Larry Fast
- Effect vocal: Irene Conrad
- Silver Lady vocal: Marge Raymond
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson, David Scance, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
- Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone and Stephan Galfas
- Universal Zoo/Why
- Lead vocal, "Universal Zoo": Arthur Brown
- Lead vocal, "Why": Joel Krantz
- Electric guitars: David Scance
- Fender bass: Peter Sobel
- Fretless Bass on "Why": Percy Jones
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Primitive percussion: Paul Marchetti, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
- Synthesizers and vocoder: Larry Fast
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
- Additional vocals: Marty Scott, Peter Sobel, Bill Guerra
- Orchestral arrangement: Danny Beckerman
- Effects vocal: "The Boss"
- Starship Jingle
- Lead vocal: Peppi Marchello (misspelled Pepe in album credits)
- Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
- Electric Autoharp: Marty Scott
- Fender bass: Peter Sobel
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Synthesizers: Larry Fast
- Flutes: John Zangrando
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
- Prepared effects: Larry Fast, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
- Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone, Stephan Galfas
- Heartbreaker
- Lead vocal: Dave Cousins
- Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
- Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Synthesizers: Larry Fast
- Flutes: John Zangrando
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
- Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford, Stephan Galfas
- Reaching Out
- Lead vocal: Annie Haslam
- Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
- Orchestral arrangement by Wil Malone
- Acoustic guitars: Anthony Phillips and Peter Sobel
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Tympani: Mighty Young Joe Intile, B. E.
- First Landing
- Lead vocal: Steve Barth
- Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
- Bass guitar: Frank Prescod and Peter Sobel
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Additional percussion: Mighty Young Joe Intile, B. E.
- Synthesizers: Larry Fast
- Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone and Danny Beckerman
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
- Additional vocals: The Passport Munchkins
- Space Commando
- Lead vocal: Mr. Snips
- Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
- Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Additional percussion: Marty Scott
- Synthesizers: Larry Fast
- Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford and Stephan Galfas
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
- Robot Salesman
- Lead vocal: Jim Cuomo
- Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
- Electric guitar: Ryche Chlanda
- Acoustic guitar: Peter Sobel
- Bass guitar: Frank Prescod
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Synthesizers, Mellotron and vocoder: Larry Fast
- Orchestral arrangement: Stephan Galfas and Brian Cuomo
- Love Station
- Lead vocal: Ben E. King
- Electric guitars: John Tropea
- Bass guitar: Frank Prescod
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Additional percussion: Peter Sobel
- Synthesizers: Larry Fast
- Saxophone solo: Clarence Clemons
- Guitar solo: John Tropea
- Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford, Stephan Galfas and Brian Cuomo
- Background vocals: Janice Pendarvis and Friends
- A Planet Called Monday/Epilogue
- Lead vocal, "A Planet Called Monday": Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt
- Lead vocal, "Epilogue": Jeffrey Leynor
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Synthesizers: Larry Fast
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson, David Scance
- Orchestral arrangement: Danny Beckerman
- Electric guitars: David Scance
- Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Keeper Keep Us
- Lead vocal: Meat Loaf
- Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
- Acoustic and bass guitars: Peter Sobel
- Fretless bass: Percy Jones
- Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
- Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
- Synthesizers: Larry Fast
- Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
- Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone
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