Roger Powell
Cosmic Furnace
Vinyl LP - Atlantic SD 7251
VG+ First Pressing (1973)
Condition: VG+ Vinyl and Very Good Cover. Vinyl was play-tested on both sides and plays really well with good fidelity throughout. It's actually a VG++, but there is a littel noise on the outer edge, before any music kicks in.) Plays great. Original gatefold cover is solid with good color, light wear. Includes original inner sleeve.
Roger Powell's musical career started in the late 1960s, programming analog synthesizers for commercials. Powell was the protégé of Robert Moog (who created the Moog synthesizer), as well as Moog's competitor ARP, contributing designs and demonstrating systems.
His first solo album Cosmic Furnace was released in 1973. It was praised by Billboard magazine's reviewer as "...a fascinating, demanding LP that has all the hypnotic eeriness of the recent Miles Davis approach"; Village Voice critic Robert Christgau called it "the best pop electronicism since Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air."
Cosmic Furnace AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
There are two ways to look at keyboardist Roger Powell's debut album, Cosmic Furnace. It is either a visionary work as one of the first rock albums recorded entirely on synthesizer, or it's a prog rock artifact for that very reason. The facts tend to support the former -- it is based on the ARP synthesizer, which was uncommon for 1973 -- but the music itself tends to support the latter, since it's a bunch of spacy, vaguely spooky and mystical art-rock that functions primarily as atmosphere, not as structured compositions. Each of the six cuts establishes its mood immediately and treads that same patch of ground rather effectively.
Track listing
A1 Ictus: Primordial Pulse 4:57
A2 Lumia: Dance Of The Nebulae 5:14
A3 Fourneau Cosmique: The Alchemical Furnace Of Cleopatra 7:42
B1 Hermetic Enigma: The Fixed Volatile 5:47
B2 Queene Enfineska: Serenity Of The Lion In Summer 3:24
B3 Tensegrity: A Dymaxion Triptych 8:37
Personnel
Composed By, Arranged By, Performer, Programmed By – Roger Powell
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