Thematically, “Broken Sails” is about XIXth sea travel… not really a concept album, but it’s subtitled “Life in a sinking ship” because that’s pretty much what the songs are all about… a dark, intense trip to India, set on a broken ship…
It was essentially done with the Prophet 08 for the pads, and the Moog, well, whenever you hear bass and leads, that’s the Moog Little Phatty…
(The strings on “The Fortune Song” are Gforce Virtual String Machine and there’s some Roland Alpha Juno-1 as well on the instrumental parts for this track. The opening chords on “Empty the Boat” are Korg Wavestation.)
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Indeed I am a long time Cohen fan… actually I use a lot of synthesizers but my roots are really classical… Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Beatles, Kinks, and then Peter Gabriel, Bowie, etc…
I had a big drum and bass/electronica obsession in the late 90’s, early 00’s, but synth-wise, I prefer old timey cheezy 70’s stuff
Last record I’ve bought is Dylan’s “Tell tale signs” outtakes album
That’s how in touch I am with current trends
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Drums Overkill http://www.inspirationsounds.co.uk/acatalog/best-service-drums-overkill.html
It’s a huge Kontakt-powered database, with numerous old drum machines, but also good realistic samples and built-in effects
On this EP, I’m purposedly using very simple, 70’s-like drum beats, with little variation