Games

 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. Games is the fourth

Synergy album and includes nine tracks with four basic

themes and the Soundcheck Delta Three Suite which was

actually written whilst on tour with Peter Gabriel taking up

six of the nine tracks on the album. This album is considered

to be one of Synergy's most important releases after the

debut album of four years previously. As with all the re issues

in the Synergy series over the next six months this re issue

of Games has been remastered 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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