Ngarjuna (Mitch Furman) has released West Coast Bach, Volume 1 – an album of ‘switched on’ style Bach, arranged for a ‘West Coast’ style synthesizer.
The digital album includes the full English Suite #6 (BWV 811), 3 bonus tracks from English Suite #5 (BWV 810) and a 16 page full color digital booklet.
Furman uses a modular synth, featuring modules inspired by the ‘West Coast’ (Buchla) modular synth tradition, including modules from Make Noise/Sputnik/Nonlinear Circuits/Intellijel/4ms voice.
You can preview West Coast Bach, Volume 1, via the embed above or at Bandcamp.
well i guess one has to live with those renditions of Bach…
West Coast? I trust no keyboards were employed!
Love this kind of stuff, thanks for the share.
West Coast style was purposefully antithetical to the ‘switched on Bach’ type rubbish when it came out – weird (un-ironic) turn of events!
I love electronic music, including but not limited to renditions of the music of Bach. I dislike subcultures obsessed with their own limited ways to use a synthesizer. East coast versus West coast? Bah! I enjoyed some of this performance a LOT, some, er, not so much. But I suspect that Furman’s synth-programming chops are much better than mine, so I’ve got some work to do.
I love electronic music too!
Love it!!!
Sorry, Not My Taste.