Long Lost Relatives

by Syrinx

Long Lost Relatives cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1971
  • Label: True North
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 37:31
  • Community rating: 3.44/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Centered around the pioneering Moog synthesizer work of John Mills-Cockell, the Canadian trio Syrinx forged a unique, melodic approach to electronic music. 'Long Lost Relatives' intertwines warm analog synth textures with live percussion and saxophone, creating chamber-like, progressive jazz-rock compositions. The album stands as a highly influential, organic integration of electronic technology in a band format.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, progressive, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Tumblers To The Vault (3:26)
  2. Syren (5:57)
  3. December Angel (8:58)
  4. Ibistix (8:04)
  5. Field Hymn (Epilogue) (2:52)
  6. Tillicum (1:54)
  7. Better Deaf And Dumb From The First (2:54)
  8. Aurora Spinray (3:26)

Credits

  • Syrinx - primary artist
  • Alan Wells - congas, timpani, gong, tambourine
  • Milton Barnes - directed by [string section director]
  • Al Brown - lacquer cut by
  • Doug Pringle - saxophone [saxophones], bongos, bells, guiro

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