Hello,
I've just this minute signed up for the forum and I wondered if anyone here has any information about the recording of 'The Love that Whirls' such as the Synthesizers, Drum Machines, Effects or Techniques used for the making of the album. I haven't been able to find much out from searching the internet , there were some really interesting interviews from 'Sound on Sound' about the Echo Observatory but they were from some time later. I read that Bill used a Yamaha CS 70M but I don't know if that was used on 'The Love that Whirls' as it only came out at the time the album must have been recorded. Anyway the album made a great impression on me, I have always been struck by the ambient instrumental tracks, I could listen to whole albums of those type of tracks particularily.
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Reading on, in Electronic Music Maker 1982 Bill mentions "I've got the little VL-Tone, tapping out the two buttons for real fast, rippling little runs of sequencer-like things." he goes on to say " The one problem I've found with the VL is that when you get to the end of the 'sequence' it glitches as it goes through — the thing to do to get round that is to press the red 'reset' button just before you get to the repeat point, that way it returns to the beginning without a glitch." This was a reference to recording 'The Cabinet of Caligari' at the Echo Observatory but I presume it could have been used on the 'Love that Whirls' unless there was access to another form of sequencing' at that time.