Artist: Ron Boots
Tracklist:
- Mea Culpa I 19:09
- 08:00 Sunday Morning 09:59
- The Roses in my Life 09:04
- Mea Culpa II 14:42
- For Does 09:42
- Quick Silver 06:07
Total Time: 75:24
Ron Boots gives a very comprehensive list of instrumentation on his latest CD, and has always been one for mixing deeper sonic experimentation with the bouncy analog sounds, and more recently with exploiting the possibilities of both hardware and software synths. So here you can try to pick out the sounds of the Prophet 08, Poly Evolver, Alesis Fusion, Roland D50, Moog Voyager, Korg Wavestation and M1, Access Virus, Clavia Nord Lead and Oberheim OB12 keyboards among others, from the software choir Voices of Passion and soft synthesizers by Arturia, East West and Native Instruments.
There’s even a bit of vocals delivered by Ron, in a pleasant bass voice reminiscent of Demis Roussos, over a slowly rolling bass sequencer pattern on “The Roses of My Life”, while “Mea Culpa 2” counterpoints fizzing analog textures against clattering, filtered drums and a more up-front sequence reminiscent of recent Tangerine Dream.
Again it’s an album for fans of analog sound, but there’s quite a lot of sonic experimentation going on too, and some interesting juxtapositions of textures including drums and voices.
All songs composed, played and produced by Ron Boots expect part of the drums and the FX on track 1. They are partially by Harold v.d. Heijden and Michel van Osenbruggen.
