Wendy Carlos By Request FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Album

Country: U.S.A.

Record Company & Release Number: Columbia: XM 32088

Original release date: 1977

Bar Code: NONE

Condition of the cover: Mint

Condition of this Album: Sealed - Assumed Mint

My inventory number: 208420C

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 3 ounces

Notes:

This record came from a record store in Allentown, Pennsylvania called "Phantasmagoria" which went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory several years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua.

Since this was part of Phantasmagoria's inventory when they closed in 1978, it cannot be any newer than a 1978 pressing. Being a sealed LP, I cannot tell specifically what pressing it is prior to 1978. In come cases, hype stickers might help to determine if it is a first pressing, but I cannot be any more specific.

Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of the albums. They had a sign on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of the albums. Most of the albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the records have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for the record in 1978 if you would have bought it at Phantasmagoria. Please don't confuse these prices with their current value.

Two stickers on the shrink wrap on the front of the record, and a bonus 7" single inside the shrink wrap on the back of the album - as shown in the photos below.

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Songs

Nutcracker Suite: Russian Dance Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Reed-Pipes Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers Episodes for Piano and Electronic Sound Geodesic Dance (Electronic Etude) Brandenburg Concerto, No. 2 in F Major (First Movement) Little Fugue in G Minor What's New, Pussycat? Eleanor Rigby Wedding March Pompous Circumstances

Credits

Rachel Elkind: Producer Benjamin Folkman: Liner Notes Phillip Ramey: Piano Wendy Carlos: Arranger, Liner Notes, Remastering

Album Review

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Biography

Biography by Joseph Stevenson, All Music Guide

Wendy Carlos was the first composer to have a hit electronic music recording, and remains an important name in the field of music for synthesizer. Upon graduation, Carlos obtained a job as a recording engineer and became one of the first customers for Robert Moog's new electronic music synthesizer, built on the principle of variable voltage controlled circuits and thus permitting a wider variety of tone colors and playing the music on a keyboard. Using the instrument, Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind recorded the album Switched-On Bach which enjoyed immense sales (into the platinum range) and favorable reviews from many critics for the clarity it brought to Bach's contrapuntal lines. Carlos followed up with another major release, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer. These releases were essentially devoted to arrangements of older music. Carlos' own music was heard in Stanley Kubrick's films A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, as well as in the innovative computer animation film Tron, which used both analog and digital synthesizers and symphony orchestra. The 1972 Carlos release Sonic Seasonings might be regarded as one of the first ambient music LPs, coming well ahead of the invention of the term "New Age." Carlos developed a passion for observing and photographing solar eclipses. Visiting the sites of eighteen of them over the decades, the artist has calculated that by the end of 1999 that effort resulted in a total of 56 minutes spent under the shadow of the moon. These lunar interests seem to have been joined with Carlos' musical activities in the release Digital Moonscapes, while an interest in world culture and alternative tunings are reflected in the striking Beauty in the Beast. In 1998 Carlos released Tales of Heaven and Hell, whose main composition revisits ideas of A Clockwork Orange. Carlos has also recently worked on restoring works whose analog masters were originally archived on tapes with a flawed binder material, with a view toward re-releasing certain recordings that have long been unavailable.

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