San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 2, by Doug McKechnie

San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 2

by Doug McKechnie

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This is the standard release version, on 140 gram vinyl with printed inner sleeve featuring liner notes by Doug and Suzanne Ciani.

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On aqua vinyl 140 gram vinyl (color in thumbnail is approximate). Edition of 750. While I hesitate to call this a "limited edition," given the total number pressed, I have limited copies on hand here, and there will be no repress in this color (or probably any other color). With printed inner sleeve featuring liner notes by Doug and Suzanne Ciani.

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Special super-limited edition pressed on white 140 gram vinyl, only 100 copies, with printed inner sleeve featuring liner notes by Doug and Suzanne Ciani. It comes with a 11" x 11" digital print of the mandala art used for the cover, originally created by psychedelic poster artist—and old pal of Doug's—Richard Wynn Taylor. (N.b. the image in the thumbnail is for illustrative purposes only.)

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	1.	Search for an Honest Man 08:23
	2.	Meditation Moog 2 02:26
	3.	Glide 11:34
	4.	Live at the Family Dog 05:59
	5.	Gyre and Gimble 03:44
	6.	Moving 03:05
	7.	Mr. Toad's Wild Ride 07:15
	8.	Rumble Ramp Explosion 02:27

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The first volume of San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 introduced the world to a trove of recordings from a little-known hinge point in electronic-music history. Vol. 2 brings to light the rest of tapes—and the rest of the story.

In 1968, Bay Area native Doug McKechnie got hold of one the very first modular Moog synthesizers ever made and began finding his own way to play it. Soon, he was hauling the finicky instrument around to perform improvised concerts at colleges and psychedelic ballrooms, as well as an ill-fated appearance on the bill at the Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969. Some of the performances were recorded, and the surviving tapes—never before released—capture a free-flowing, transportive sound that fills in the gap between the austere mid-century academic avant garde and the expansive cosmic suites of Tangerine Dream and the rest of the Berlin School in the ‘70s.

Vol. 2 captures a wider range of sounds and moods, encompassing austere sonic experiments (such as "Meditation Moog 2"), early sequenced pulses (including "Search for an Honest Man" and the aptly titled "Moving"), and melodic etudes ("Gyre and Gimble"). "Live at the Family Dog,"captures some of the ambiance of the legendary. ephemeral Denver concert hall on one of Doug and Moog's touring adventures. "Rumble Ramp Explosion" offers a suitably dramatic end for this chapter of documenting Doug's work.

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released March 17, 2023

All pieces were created improvisationally in an atmosphere of exploration and discovery on a Moog Modular Series III synthesizer and recorded live with no overdubbing to Ampex PR-10, Nagra 3, or TEAC four-channel recorders.

Produced by Doug McKechnie, Lee Gardner, and PJ Dorsey
Mastered by A.F Jones at Laminal Audio
Art direction by Frank Hamilton
Art by Richard Taylor

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