This features a multi-tracked instrumental recording I did in 1987-88 while recording with my band (The Ultimate Connection). It is just keyboards & bass and all done by my own solo efforts to just 4 tracks (the then at the time state-of-art 4-track recorders. I used a Sequential Circuits Prophet type synthesizer and it was incredible how that thing (although not the best of analog sounds) would sync up with your beats and music. It was almost uncanny as it was better than any band. This is soaring space-jazz and always seemed to me to be like racing through a galaxy of stars... See what you think. MORE>> Digital synthesis doesn't do what the older analog synths could do--and certainly NOT when you are improving live and have to keep your hands on the keys! Although this session involved some overlays the base of its driving music was mostly live although it used the sequencer for repeated figures. This E major based groove has a great bass riff and the pulse-wave, filtering, modulating controls of those 1980's Prophet 5 based synths was so intuitive and responsive. Although it might be considered "New Age" it was more jazz as the rhythms and solos were driven by jazz patterns. The sliding, ever-modulating tones that embellish the melodic solos give it that soaring, rising and falling feeling which combined with the bass repetitions make it seem that "you're speeding through space" It was quite a project but at this point I can't quite remember how I did it! It was a lot of pre-configuring & editing patches before the session but well worth it. I hope in the future to do more pure synthesis but frankly, it is a matter of what synth to buy that would put me back into this kind of thing. I don't need or want a bunch of unchanging digital sounds and samples but whether I could stand all the "tech-head" stuff at my age now is the thing. Although today's digital sounds are of higher quality and "purer" than the analog sounds used here I haven't heard any improvement in the music that's for sure. It sometimes seems plodding and dead--it is everywhere on TV, internet and movies, (that doesn't prove it is good, just ubiquitous!) an lot of it (not all for sure) is just not imaginative.... You have to admit once you listen to this track---It sure fits the "astronomical subject" and it IS IMAGINATIVE! Einstein, Kant and even Edgar Allen Poe (yes!) would love it! Poe who wrote a small tract called "Eureka" on the cosmology of the universe way back in 1848, well before the 20th century pundits was just such a genius as I believe (ahead of his time) that would really appreciate what I have here.... Take a dare and enjoy this fast but short ride through the galaxy!