Audion

The man behind Synergy is Larry Fast a native of New

Jersey who was to have a far-reaching effect on the use

of synthesizers in rock music during the seventies and

eighties.

Larry Fast first came to prominence with the release of

the debut album from Synergy called Electronic

Realizations For Rock Orchestra in 1975. Prior to the

release of Synergy's debut Larry Fast had been at college.

Initially Larry trained as a violinist and pianist before

entering college and taking a few computer science courses.

It was during this period that Larry Fast became interested

in synthesized music and began to build his own synthesizers.

At this time he was introduced to Rick Wakeman at a local

radio station and both musicians enjoyed an immediate

rapport with Larry Fast interesting Rick Wakeman in his

home made instruments and his customizing of existing

synthesizers. He was invited over to England to assist with

the synthesizers on the Yes album Tales From Topographic

Oceans. Shortly after this Larry Fast gained a record

contract, which saw the beginning of Synergy and the

subsequent release of the debut album which received

plaudits from no lesser person than Robert Moog himself

who at the time claimed the album to be "the most important

recording using his Moog synthesizer". Soon after the

release of the debut Synergy album Larry Fast was

introduced to Peter Gabriel who at the time had just left

Genesis to embark on a solo career and Larry was invited

by Gabriel to help with the synthesizer work on Peter's series

of self titled solo albums. During this time Larry also worked

as part of Peter Gabriel's live band and performed on many

sessions for diverse artists including Foreigner, Kate Bush,

Art Garfunkel, Hall and Oates and The Fugees in addition to

recording and releasing albums with Synergy. During the

eighties Larry Fast also moved into film work scoring the

films About Last Night and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Audion was the fifth album to come from Synergy and was

originally released in 1981. It was the follow up album to

Games although this album has a more rock feel than the

structured feel of the previous album. The album contains ten

tracks although again no guitars are present on this recording.

Tracks include Orbit Five, Electric Blue and An End To History

and with all the albums in this series of re issues has been

re mastered and contains sleeve notes by Larry Fast.

The man behind Synergy is Larry Fast a native of New

Jersey who was to have a far-reaching effect on the use

of synthesizers in rock music during the seventies and

eighties.

Larry Fast first came to prominence with the release of

the debut album from Synergy called Electronic Realizations

For Rock Orchestra in 1975. Prior to the release of Synergy's

debut Larry Fast had been at college. Initially Larry trained

as a violinist and pianist before entering college and taking

a few computer science courses. It was during this period

that he became interested in synthesized music and began

to build his own synthesizers. At this time Larry was introduced

to Rick Wakeman at a local radio station and both musicians

enjoyed an immediate rapport with Larry Fast interesting

Rick Wakeman in his home made instruments and his

customizing of existing synthesizers. He was invited over

to England to assist with the synthesizers on the Yes album

Tales From Topographic Oceans. Shortly after this Larry

Fast gained a record contract, which saw the beginning of

Synergy and the subsequent release of the debut album

which received plaudits from no lesser person than Robert

Moog himself who at the time claimed the album to be "the

most important recording using his Moog synthesizer". Soon

after the release of the debut Synergy album Larry Fast was

introduced to Peter Gabriel who at the time had just left

Genesis to embark on a solo career and Larry was invited by

Gabriel to help with the synthesizer work on Peter's series of

self titled solo albums. During this time Larry also worked as

part of Peter Gabriel's live band and performed on many

sessions for diverse artists including Foreigner, Kate Bush,

Art Garfunkel, Hall and Oates and The Fugees in addition to

recording and releasing albums with Synergy. During the

eighties Larry Fast also moved into film work scoring the

films About Last Night and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

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