Total improv. Right off the cuff, hard driving synthesizer madness and soft piano sadness. A blend of traditional analog Emerson,Lake and Palmer "ish" keyboard sounds, with an ocassional dash of honky tonk blues piano.

6 MP3 Songs
ELECTRONIC: Ambient, AVANT GARDE: Free Improvisation

Details:
Mark Stafford presents his first release, as an improvisational âexploration of the modern keyboard.â Although many of the older vintage keyboards are gone, they are not forgotten.
Here, the sounds of those âsynthesizer days gone by,â are joined together with everything from the sadness of a piano, to the madness of the manipulated synthesizer. Thereâs even a humorous look at the pipe organ (â Itâs a Dracula Thingââ), meeting the electronic world.
This is quite a change from a âhonky tonkâ piano player.
Stafford: âAfter ten years of playing in country bands on the road, I felt it was time to do my own stuff. While I have (and always will) love the piano, I have a hard time pulling myself away from those 1970âs sounds, like the Moog, Arp, Clav, and Wurlitzer. I used to go watch a great keyboard player in Orlando (Jerry Schaeffer) who was a master of those sounds, and he taught me a lot about them. He dubbed me the âkeyboardologist,â which kind of stuck with me.â

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