Ad Visser - Sobriëtas

Vinyl rip, 320 kbbs

©1982 CBS 85990

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This is the original release from 1982. The album is the companion of the book "Sobriëtas" wich Ad Visser released that same year. Don't expect Tinklebell to ring a bell when you have to turn a page though. The synthesizer based tracks are more like an OST. The song Giddiyap a Gogo sung by Daniel Saluheka was a big hit in the Netherlands.

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I've tried to eliminate as many ticks, clicks and scratches as possible but couldn't get it better than this. Played the record too many times.

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Tracklisting: Overture In "S" (4:28) / March Of Hope (4:50) / Delicate Balance (3:30) / Nostalgia For Earth (8:48) / Giddyap A Gogo (4:50) / Relief Of Demorzan (5:28) / Adventure (Restless Breed) (4:44) / A Last Farewell (4:00)

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Incl. scans from the original LP cover

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Ad Visser, Pushkar & Kim Menzer

The Sound Of Blue

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CD D.D.D. rip, 320Kbps

©1988 Blue Eyes CBE 4787

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In 1988 Ad did performance on the RAI Media mess, Amsterdam to promote Blaupunkt and himself. This project was named "The Talkinghead Experience" and had a, for that time, inmensive lasershow. For audio comment he used projectors to give life to a big (3 or 4 metres) three dimensional head. All very impressive. You could buy the music right there as a souvenir. Along the Ad Visser track there were two Pushkar and one Kim Menzer tracks. Everytime I hear Pushkar's "Rainbow Dance" I think of coffee. Maybe he was drugged by Nescafé.

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No hits but fine synthesiser/new age music. If you like Kitaro, Gandalf or Michael Garrison you probably gonna like this too.

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Tracklisting:
1 Ad Visser - The Sound Of Blue (15:45)
2 Pushkar - Rainbow Dance (5:47)
3 Pushkar - Kalaila (11:15)
4 Kim Menzer - Seashore Mystery (9:48)

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Incl. artwork

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Ad Visser - Hi-Tec Heroes

Vinyl rip, 320 Kbps

©1987 Vertigo 830 813-1

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After Sobriëtas Ad Visser made up a new Multi-Media project titled Hi-Tec Heroes. No book this time but a theaterperformance and an album. The theme is the modern tecnology.

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"No News From The Western Frontier" is sung by Gary Brooker from Procol Harum All other vocals and instruments are played by Ad Visser.

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Tracklisting: Burning Heart (3:10) / Garbage Can (3:21) /Inter Acces (1:02) / Hi-Tec Heroes (3:31) / Hi-Tec Heroes In The Night (4:04) / What's Going On (4:00) / No News From The Western Frontier (5:38) / The Lone Hero (7:02) / The Fountain-Head (1:10) / Futurian Symphony (8:04)

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Incl. scans from the original cover

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Ad Visser

Sobrietas

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CD rip, 224 kbbs /Dino Records 2253 /Released in 1990.

Original lp was released on CBS records in 1982

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Allthough this CD is titled Sobrietas it's not the same as the original release from 1982. It's more a kind of a sampler containing 5 tracks of the LP Sobrietas (tracks 2,7-10), 3 tracks from the Hi-Tec Heroes CD (track 4, 5 & 6 ) and 2 tracks were singles (1 & 3). Missing are "Overture in S", "March Of Hope", "Nostalgia for Earth" and the song Giddiyap a Gogo sung by Daniel Saluheka wich was a big hit in the Netherlands.

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Despite the missing tracks it's a great Electronic, Synth-pop, Ambient experience.

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Tracklisting:

1 Head Over Heels In Paradise (4:52) / 2 Delicate Balance (3:30) / 3 Hallucinado (4:20) Vocals - Maggie Reilly / 4 The Lone Hero (6:57) / 5 Futurian Symphony (9:16) / 6 No News From The Western Frontier (5:41) Vocals - Gary Brooker / 7 March Of Hope (4:50) / 8 Nostalgia For Earth (8:48) / 9 Relief Of Demorzan (5:28) / 10 A Last Farewell (4:00)

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