Music: Leaving This Planet
Suitandtieguy on HC KSS recommended this album by the late jazz organist Charles Earland:
b) Herbie always needed Patrick Gleeson (or whoever was around ... in the 80s for Future Shock it became Bill Laswell) to patch his synths up for him. i'll bet if you threw him in front of a Minimoog with all the knobs turned down he wouldn't be able to make noise with it at all.
contrast this with Charles Earland's Leaving This Planet (1974, Prestige) where he cuts a great classic soul organ record at Rudy's and then goes to fucking town on the multitrack recorder with a Minimoog, a string ensemble, a Mellotron, and some pedals and creates an album which is (seriously) the closest that organ jazz ever gets to Tomita's The Planets album. even starts out the same ... spaceship blastoff, radio voices etc. at some points i swear to god Earland has 9 layers of bubbling space synths in the background of a burning chitlin circuit organ solo.
and he did it BY HIS DAMN SELF. he didn't need some white dude to programme his synths for him. he was CHARLIE FUCKING EARLAND.
and he kept it real. when Charles left this planet, he didn't leave the soul behind.
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