By Moog Indigo, Perrey signaled his fascination with space, computers and the future less obviously, but his light funk is animated in every sense of the word by the synth textures of tomorrow. The album opens with “The Unidentified Flying Object,” “The Little Man from Mars,” and “Cosmic Ballad,” and between Perrey’s Moog, his Ondioline, and the tape looping he and Gershon employed, they created space age pop instrumentals. Titles from The In Sound from Way Out signal that interest very clearly. “He ran to the inventor of the Ondioline to beg him to lend him an Ondioline for a few weeks so he could try it for himself.” When he first heard the Ondioline-a precursor to the synthesizer-in 1948, he thought of the instrument as a part of the same future as NASA and space travel, which would become a fascination as well. “Since his youth, he had read hundreds of science fiction books and seen I don’t know how many movies,” she says. Recently, Vanguard Records reissued Moog Indigo for the first time on an audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl.Īccording to Leroy, Perrey was always interested in the future. Perrey was an early advocate for electronic music, recording The In Sound from Way Out in 1966, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations in 1967 (both with Gershon Kingsley), and Moog Indigo in 1970. “One that Bob Moog personally drove to my father’s studio in New York.” Moog assembled the synthesizer in front of Perrey and taught him to use it. Perrey’s Moog synthesizer “was the second ever instrument that Bob Moog made up,” Leroy says. It looked like an old telephone switchboard. “There were innumerable small cables that led from one hole to another. Patricia Leroy remembers the Moog synthesizer that belonged to her father Jean-Jacques Perrey as “a keyboard with a lot of stuff on top of it,” she says, laughing. Just as computers filled rooms and not just desktops in the 1960s, early synthesizers moved with the ease and assurance of arthritic grandparents. Today, an electronic music producer can travel with little more than a briefcase for his or her gear. The recently reissued 1970 album by the French electronic music pioneer anticipated an optimistic musical future that now seems charmingly quaint.
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