Stardrive With Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot mp3

Performer: Stardrive With Robert Mason
Title: Intergalactic Trot
Country: US
Catalog Number: EKS 75058
Label: Elektra
Released: 1973
Style: Space-Age, Fusion, Experimental
Rating: 4.6
Votes: 100

Stardrive With Robert Mason Elektra Space Age Fusion Experimental 1973

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Tracklist

1	Rushes	4:10
2	Dr. Tandem (Takes A Ride)	2:48
3	Want To Take You Higher Arranged By – Robert Mason Written-By – Sylvester Stewart	3:22
4	Intergalactic Trot	9:00
5	Stardrive	9:45
6	Everything At Once	6:15
7	Strawberry Fields Forever Arranged By – Robert Mason Written-By – Lennon-McCartney	4:00

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
EKS 75058	Stardrive With Robert Mason	Stardrive With Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot ‎(LP, Album, TP)	Elektra	EKS 75058	US	1973
8Q-5058	Stardrive With Robert Mason	Stardrive With Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot ‎(8-Trk, Album, Quad)	Elektra	8Q-5058	US	1973
K 42140	Stardrive With Robert Mason	Stardrive With Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot ‎(LP, Album)	Elektra	K 42140	UK	1973
wou 7505	Stardrive With Robert Mason	Stardrive With Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot ‎(CD, RE)	Wounded Bird Records	wou 7505	US	2008
ESTQ 5058-QF	Stardrive With Robert Mason	Stardrive With Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot ‎(Reel, Album, Quad)	Elektra	ESTQ 5058-QF	US	1973

Credits

Art Direction, Design – Robert L.Heimall
Artwork [Cover Art] – Gene Szafran
Bass – Jamie Austria
Drums – Stephen Gadd
Engineer – Jay Messina
Engineer, Remix – Fritz Richmond
Guitar – Harvey Sarch
Percussion – Bruce Ditmas
Photography By – Myron Collins
Producer – Robert W. Zachary Jr.
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Michael Brecker
Synthesizer – Robert Mason
Written-By – Robert Mason (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3, B4)

Notes

Back sleeve notes: Robert Mason has built the world's first multi-voiced synthesizer that can be played like a real keyboard instrument with full chords and tonal clusters. All the music on this album was performed live on the "Stardrive" synthesizer...

LP housed in company "ELektra" paper.

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There you have the biggest problem with Robert Mason's Intergalactic Trot. The format is so limited that the novelty wears off real quick. Orion's Sometimes Words Get in the Way is far more spirited. The up-tempo While My Guitar Gently Weeps is drenched in guitar reverb and echoplex - acoustic guitars and the multiple synthesizers combining to form unique renditions of popular tunes. The Intergalactic Sonic Travels of Robert Mason and His Synth. By Lucas Benjamin. Stardrive a name synonymous with a 70s jazz-rock fusion band, its self-titled album, and as the liner notes would have us believe, the worlds first multi-voiced synthesizer that can be played like a real keyboard instrument. This name also holds the frame to the only window allowing us a glimpse into the world of its creator a man the internet knows very little about. Lucas Benjamin takes us along on his quest to uncovering the story behind an enigmatic keyboardist and inventor. Robert Mason began his form. Robert Mason 6 - Intergalactic Trot - Elektra - LP, Album - EKS 75058, включает Rushes, Strawberry Fields Forever, Stardrive, Dr. Stardrive was a short-lived project created by keyboardist Robert Mason in order to present his multi-voiced stated on the LP ''. Robert Mason has built the worlds first multi- voiced synthesizer that can be played like a real keyboard instrument with full chords and tonal clusters. For that reason he composed the album ''Intergalactic. trot'' back in 1973,released on Elektra,where he was helped by session musicians on bass,guitars,drums and saxes,among them famous sax player Michael Brecker is the most recognizable figure. From '' Intergalactic Trot '' Label: Elektra EKS 75058 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1973 Tracklist A1 Rushes A2 Strawberry information about the songs on the release Intergalactic Trot by Stardrive with Robert Mason : who covered the songs, who sang the 2 records for sale for album Intergalactic trot by Stardrive With Robert Mason 6 on CDandLP in Vinyl and CD format. All fields Artist Title Artist Title Label Seller Item . Select a specific format: All formats Album CD CD Album CD Single CD Maxi Vinyl records LP 7 inchs 7 inchs SP 7 inchs EP 12 inchs 78 rpm 10 inchs DVD VHS Cassette Clothing T-Shirt Others. Featured items. Intergalactic Trot. Elektra Item No: 300608. Vinyl LP 1973, US Original Used Vinyl Vinyl: VG, Cover: VG. Stardrive with Bob Mason. Titel: Intergalactic Trot. Label: Elektra. This item:Intergalactic Trot by Stardrive 2008-07-15 by Stardrive Audio CD . Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Ships from and sold by Seedbed. If you like this album, don't forget MasonStardrive's second and final album, just called Stardrive Featuring Robert Mason, released in 1974 on Columbia. This is a nice album worth getting. Read more. Discover all of this album's music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download

Reviews (6)

xander

Stardrive's first album, simply named "Stardrive," has a few cool tracks of synth only music, riffs & trills formed into songs that I think is very cool. I have it somewhere on vinyl, one of my long-term goals is to FLAC it, although I'm sure it'll sound rough, I'm sure it's over 30 years old. Yes, that was ARP 2500 parts in the photo. Ah, the good old days. I'm sure it'd be easy to build a poly out of 2500 peices, they had a whole voice module, in fact. Just the keyboard would be the prob, though Eu made a great modular 1v/octave poly keyboard around that time.russell

Hulbine

Hey Russell. I plan on making a lossless FLAC of my very clean copy. Message me if you are interested.

Brazil

rjanuary777 Stardrive's first album, simply named "Stardrive," has a few cool tracks of synth only music, riffs & trills formed into songs that I think is very cool. I have it somewhere on vinyl, one of my long-term goals is to FLAC it, although I'm sure it'll sound rough, I'm sure it's over 30 years old. Yes, that was ARP 2500 parts in the photo. Ah, the good old days. I'm sure it'd be easy to build a poly out of 2500 peices, they had a whole voice module, in fact. Just the keyboard would be the prob, though Eu made a great modular 1v/octave poly keyboard around that time.russell Actually the album called Stardrive was the second one, from 1974 on Columbia. Intergalactic Trot, from 1973 on Elektra, which is the album in question, was the first.

lacki

There doesn't appear to be much info on Robert Mason. He appeared to be a student at Princeton and Juilliard, and in 1973-74 recorded two albums and joined Blood, Sweat & Tears for the Mirror Image album, and that appears to be it. Stardrive was the name of his band as well as synthesizer Mr. Mason custom made himself, using ARP 2500 parts (keyboard, control panels, matrix panels) and added on some additional stuff (looking like EMS Synthi A or VCS-3 knobs as well as other things). He was attempting a prototype polyphonic synthesizer, because he felt readily available monophonic synths were limiting (of course, it didn't take much for the synth industry to pay attention, as commercially available polyphonic synths started becoming available beginning in the mid 1970s). I do find it amusing that I've seen sources stating that his albums used two ARP 2500s, but that's not correct. It's obvious whoever gave that information might have not owned that album for years, and forgot the back cover clearly shows Mason's Stardrive synth, or was hearing it from word of mouth. Yes the ARP 2500 has a lot to do with Stardrive, as ARP 2500 parts were used for that synth as mentioned already, but not two full ARP 2500s.Intergalactic Trot was released on Elektra, and he brought in a bunch of jazz/fusion musicians including Steve Gadd and Michael Brecker, among others. So the results are quite interesting, although it's easy to see many might find this a bit cheesy, but I find it great. Obviously the Stardrive synthesizer is the star here, where Mason plays in the vein of Rick Wakeman or even Todd Rundgren's Utopia (who's debut album would still be a year away). Prog rock, electronic, fusion, and funk are to be found here, and Mason and the boys can certainly do great fusion as well as prog and electronic. They also take on two covers, the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever", which ends up sounding like one of cheesy Moog renditions done by a middle aged guy in the vein of Gershon Kingsley, for example. The other being "I Wanna Take You Higher", the Sly & the Family Stone classic. Despite being all instrumental, it's still recognizable. The rest are originals, and they're simply great, they play like no tomorrow.To some this album might seem like a novelty or gimmick, but to me a nice prog/electronic/fusion album, and it's nice to find stuff like this on major labels, proving that before 1978 or thereabouts, major labels used to take chances, and this is a great example. Worth having for those looking for the more off-the-beaten-track.

Dancing Lion

Nice review! I own the second album which sounds alot like he was channeling ELP in parts as one can pick up all the classical riffs and Mason really shreds. Im going to pick this one up irregardless of the cover cheese fest I love synths and can weigh that factor out upon listening! Just the fact that he mixed up different bits and pieces of other machines makes it a fascinating curio for the ears.

Meztisho

...it's a damn funky, jazzy, synthy LP with some great players : )