Robin Radus Music

Petrified City (1991)


Of all the 4-track recordings I've ever made, this album is probably the one most plagued with technical difficulties.  I wouldn't mention this except for the fact that once you hear the mix, it is abundantly apparent that the sound is, well...peculiar.  For one thing, everything is split into overly reverberative stereo; the effects were recorded onto the original tapes and there they remain. And the Roland keyboard controller I was using at the time (the A-50) was pretty incompatible with the sound module I employed (the Yamaha TG-77).  I had just bought all this new equipment at the beginning of 1991 and I was finally going to record with it. Nothing came out the way I intended.

That being said, this album contains some of my very favorite material.  I was going to visit Alaska for the first time and that fact colored this recording all throughout. This entire project took less than two weeks, because that was all the time I had before I left.  (I remember getting mugged right before I recorded "Still in Love" and being concerned that I'd still have enough time to finish; I had to have my stitches out in Anchorage, I recall.)

But I digress.  In remixing this album, I found that I couldn't resist adding a track or two that I had meant to add and for one reason or another did not.  I put in a few background vocals.  I added extra keyboard guitar parts.  And as this remix unfolded, it felt like a new album.  Weirdly, I have become a session player on my own album from nineteen years ago, working with my past self.  I have, in the words of my counterpart Space's friends on their recording, traveled back in time to get things started.  Everything new I played is true to the spirit of the original recordings.  
 

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