Artist: Ed Starink
Type: Album
Release date: 1989
Run time: 71:48
My Rating: 7
- The Inter-Galactic Cruise (Radio Mix) (4:17)
- Equinoxe Part 4 (4:24)
- Maid Of Orleans (3:37)
- I Hear You Now (5:01)
- Theme From "Rainman" (3:22)
- Aurora (3:47)
- Forbidden Colours (4:35)
- Paranoimia (4:35)
- The Eve Of The War (4:14)
- The Model (3:41)
- Roulette (4:24)
- Dervish D. (3:21)
- Vienna (4:45)
- Tubbs And Valerie (3:35)
- Spiral (3:38)
- I'll Find My Way Home (3:58)
- Bolero (6:27)
Comments
Ed Starink, despite being the one who recorded all these covers, is not credited anywhere other than on Bolero. Like the previous album in this series, it's a collection of cover versions of classic synth tracks, starting off with a mega-mix of tunes from Syntheziser Greatest
Volume 1 with overlayed space-related sound bites. Other random notes:
- Nice switch to start the Vangelis/Jon Anderson collaboration "I Hear You Now" with the vocals being represented by a synth wind instrument, then changing to authentic Anderson-esque vocals (sampled from the original?) towards the end.
- I'm thinking an orchestral rendition of "Aurora" (originally by Dutch group Nova) would sound even more beautiful than Starink's version is.
- "Paranomia" is another interesting choice, a good proportion of it appears to consist of vocal samples (I'd be interested in comparing this version with the original Art of Noise version).
- "The Eve of the War" sounds glorious!