Mark Jenkins – EX1GENE (re-issue)

Description

1) Caravanserai (7.02)
2) Baroque And Roll (4.58)
3) Dream Machine (6.59)
4) Kahramanmaras (4.01)
5) Ex1t Strategy (4.41)
6) Kaffee Am Morgen (5.19)
7) Samba Protocol (6.13)
8) Two Tone Poems (4.31)
a) The Caves of Ice
b) The Song of Shadows
9) Peter Gunn Theme (3.15)

10) EX-1 sound samples –
synth, pedals, drum machine

I’m pleased to be re-issuing “EX!GENE” originally available only in small numbers in 2012.

After recording “The iPad Sessions” (now re-issued as Modular Sessions 23) the world’s first CD for perhaps the smallest synthesizer system possible, I thought it would be fun to create an album using only one of the largest, the giant triple keyboard Yamaha EX-1, the identical sounding theatre version of the GX-1 Electone played by Keith Emerson, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Abba, Rick Van Der Linden and Hans Zimmer.

Adding only vocal and additional percussion samples plus effects from a Mac/Logic laptop, I tried to push the EX-1’s sonic abilities to recall perhaps the “kosmische” Cluster and early Ashra as well as jazz/eastern influenced artists and of course Keith Emerson’s unique performance style with ELP.

There are two promo videos on YouTube –
“EX1T STRATEGY”

PETER GUNN THEME”.