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MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC.
2-CD set of Raymond Scott unreleased electronic music
(Basta Audio-Visuals)
MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is a 2-CD, 69-track edition of over two hours of Raymond Scott's unreleased electronic recordings from the 1950s-60s.
These works feature such homebuilt Scott music machines as the Electronium, Clavivox, Circle Machine (early sequencer), Bandito the Bongo Artist, and more. The album includes maverick (and decidedly "non-kiddie") collaborative works with pre-Muppet-era JIM HENSON, and comes packaged in a 144-page, full-color, hard-bound book. The text features interviews with those who knew and worked with Scott (e.g., synthesizer pioneer ROBERT MOOG, wife Mitzi Scott, electronic music authority Tom Rhea), along with countless previously unseen photos, lab notes, US patents, and scrapbook items.
Raymond Scott (1908-1994) was a renowned bandleader, composer and pianist from the 1930s to the 1950s. His melodies, particu...
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