Customer Reviews

Sequencer

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I have enjoyed this album since I first heard it on vinyl from our local library. I now own that same copy. I never tire of it. W/W Carlos and his/her Switched on Bach is good, but texture-wise, Larry K.O.s Mr./Ms Carlos...I will join the others in recommending it for your collection of electronic music, or if you are just starting out. Not a boring track on it.

Before Peter Gabriel did "Games without Frontiers", Larry Fast, AKA Syenergy was working up his second album, "Sequencer" which rivals Walter/Wendy Carlos and all other electronic key boardist that have come. This is a must have item for those interested in the development of the synthesizers in music. His version of "A Classical Gas" and the "Largo" (from the New World Symphony) remain as very illustrative and interesting compositions comparable to today's artistic works. This is a second album project and it just gets better with "Cords", "Games", "Audion" and his others releases. His first album's title discribes his compositions: "Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra".

I used to sell stereo in the early 80s, and whenever we had a skeptical customer who couldn't believe there was a difference between $200 speakers and $500 speakers, we'd wink and put on the Synergy album.

I have worn out two of these albums, now it's finally available on CD. If you like Mannheim Steamroller or think 'Dark Side of the Moon' sounds good on your stereo, you are going to absolutely flip over Synergy.

This is a classic!

After the promise of Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra the previous year, one would think that Sequencer would have been a comparatively impressive work. Unfortunately, this album is gravely disappointing compared to the first album. S-Scape, the first track, ends as soon as it starts to get good. Other tracks, like the wonderful Chateau and the cool Cybersports, are good short pieces but offer only a taste of the Synergy heard in ER. It just strikes me that Larry Fast may have been a bit short on material (or energy) at the time he created this album as the majority of the pieces on it are either covers of others' works or tone sequences. Only once the last track (Sequence) 17 gets going do you begin to hear the Synergy character that you wanted to hear more of when you bought the album.

Now don't get me wrong--there are tracks in here that are definitely worth listening to. It's not a bad album, but this is not the best that Synergy has to offer.

This album is as good or better than "Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra" Larry Fast makes electronic music sing.

Mellow and new-agey, but transparent and lacking emotion, but has some great moments.

LARRY FAST AT HIS MOST ACCESSABLE. "CHATEAU" IS A BAROQUE MASTERPIECE THAT BACH WOULD OF BEEN PROUD OF. REST OF CD PRETTY GOOD TOO. ANALOG AT ITS PEAK.

this is larry fasts second outing of rock tinged electronic music that would become known as new age. Once again he provides tasteful use of synthesizer and other eletronic instruments. gREAT MOOD MUSIC

With do respect my fellow chicagoan may not have grasped the feel of this album.The counterpoint, and mengling of themes make this an engaging album .Something you can listen to again & again and still hear somthing differant.The mixing of "coming home" and "icaris" was genius,to this day I can't hear one without thinking of the other.You can keep your "Nine Ince Nails" this is the way it's suppose to sound.

I've been hoping and waiting for it to appear on CD for a decade or more. This is a wonderful album -- even people who don't think they like electronic music will love it. It sits at the very top of my all-time favorites list.