Bertland
The musical universe of Bert Jackson

Another tune that grew out of Jean Coyne’s Roland D-50 keyboard’s extended visit to my house. Started playing around with some stuff and this quasi-classical thing came out. Remember, this was 1987-88 and we had never heard sampled audio patches before. The horn sounds just blew me away. This is all me, all synth recorded on a few tracks.

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This is a piece recorded back in the late 80s. My pal, Jean Coyne, had just acquired a new Roland D-50 keyboard synth. It was the first digital synth any of us had tried. And for a while, it stayed with me at my house. So one day I started messing around and pretty soon I was laying down some tracks. My buddy Jake came by and liked what I was doing so he went off in the other room, wrote out lyrics and came back and recorded them. I added a flanged/distorted guitar solo and voila! we were done.

What you hear is a Roland drum machine, me on the D-50 multitracked a few times, including the bass line, Jako on vocals and me on guitar. Very different from most of the stuff we were doing at that time…

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