Jack Tamul Electro/Acoustic LP Record Rare Spectrum Obscure electronic synth 80s

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 This is an auction for one LP record titled 

JACK TAMUL

ELECTRO/ACOUSTIC

SR-134 Spectrum 1980

 cover grade VG-

 record grade EX

Great l original copy of this scarce 1980 electronic/synth/tape/drone LP, one of a handful of obscure electronic titles released on the Spectrum label in the late '70s/early '80s

US composer Jack Tamul, born 1948, Providence, Rhode Island, studied classical music composition in the 1960s before moving to electronic and computer music in the early 1970s, first in Jacksonville Univ., Florida, then in Finland under Einojuhani Rautavaara and at the Finnish Radio Electronic Music studios. From then on he composed electronic music for radio or TV broadcasts, film soundtracks, as well as incidental music for museums and planetariums of the Southeast. Working from a recording studio in Jacksonville, Tamul was able to pursue his research in acoustic vs electronic music, writing a Symphony for orchestra and synthesizer, for instance, and computer-assisted, multimedia projects for dance or poetry settings of William R. Strickland’s writings. Lately, he teamed up with James T. Miller to release 2 CDs about the Everglades, featuring baritone singer, chorus, electronics and field recordings of natural sounds. In 1979, Spectrum Records released William Strickland’s An Electronic Visit to the Zoo and Sound Hypnosis (posted on Lunar Atrium). Gershon Kingsley and Philip Springer contributed synthesizer arrangements to another Strickland disc, ‘William R. Strickland Is Only the Name’ LP [date?].

Electro/Acoustic consists of a succession of powerful tracks build from dense layers of sustained, electronic sounds, with occasional addition of a chorus. The uneasy, even menacing electronic sounds recall The Hafler Trio or Lustmord, while, on the first 2 tracks, the addition of a chorus brings the music closer to Ligeti’s vocal music (Rautavaara also wrote a lot of choral music), the pre-recorded Florida Junior College chorus parts being submitted to radical sound processing and studio effects. All compositions are rather imposing in their style and impressive in the ability with which Jack Tamul mixes massive drones, endless loops and rich keyboard sounds from his Prophet V, Arp 2600 and Moog synths. Some of this music is clearly ahead of its time.

Jack Tamul Electro/Acoustic:

Side 1

01 Genesis (6:33)

02 Lament for Gettysburg (8:10)

03 Canon Cancrizans (5:05)

Side 2

04 Fantasia (6:32)

05 Mogul (6:55)

06 Wave Rhapsody (6:30)

Total time 40mns

LP released by Spectrum Records, USA, 1980

Ultra Rare Obscure Unknown OOP

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