I know people say it was Kate bush or Peter Gabriel
but what song was and who was it

Please help!!!

Good luck with the Essay.

Kind regards,
Peter

: Good luck with the Essay.

: Kind regards,
: Peter

Hi,

I remember that on "Chants magnetiques" video clip (1981), Jean Michel Jarre was playing on a CMI( all the cards of the CMI were displayed on the keyboard !) and on the inner pages of the CD's Jacket you can see a "page D" screenshot and hand made scores with track named "AKS", "Sequence 1","Sequence 2","Fairlight","Oberheim","ARP"...
I listened to all the tracks this morning, and you can clearly recognise the CMI on track3: the balafon loop at the beginning of the track ( played at nominal rate and then transposed )

There may be some earlier tunes made in Australia ?

Good luck
Cheers
R-Y

Hi,

From what I've been able to determine, Peter Gabriel used the CMI on his third album Melt, released in 1980. The instrumental track "Start" is alleged to make use of it. Kate Bush's "Babooshka", released in June of the same year, also featured the CMI.

Cheers,
John

: Hi,

: From what I've been able to determine, Peter Gabriel used the CMI on his third album Melt, released in 1980. The instrumental track "Start" is alleged to make use of it. Kate Bush's "Babooshka", released in June of the same year, also featured the CMI.

Geoff Downes used a Fairlight on Yes's 1980 album Drama. Alledgedly "Man In a White Car" from that album is entirely Fairlight other than Trevor Horn's vocals, altho' I'm skeptical. If I'm not mistaken Downes packed along his Fairlight on the subsequent tour for the album, which may make him the first musician to tour with a CMI. He certainly carried it on the first Asia tour a year or two later. Its possible Mike Oldfield had his CMI when he did QE2 in 1980, but I suspect 1982's Five Miles Out was his first Fairlight album.