Syrinx - Tillicum (Theme from Here Come The Seventies)

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Issued in Canada April 1971 on True North TN4-104. Syrinx was an electronic music ensemble led by John Mills-Cockell (Arp and Moog synthesizers and keyboards), with Doug Pringle (saxophone, guiro, bongos, bells) and Alan Wells (congas, percussion). Mills-Cockell studied at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, and taught electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music. The three met during the time of Toronto's awakening avant-garde music scene in the late '60s. They were signed by Bernie Finkelstein, and had the second album on the True North label in 1970. Their music rather defies description, so I'm not even going to try. Suffice it to say that Syrinx were electronic music pioneers in the same league with Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver, and had perfected synthesis methodologies before Kraftwerk had rendered a single bleep. The group was approached by Hobel-Leiterman Productions to create a theme for their new television series, "Here Come The Seventies," which aired on the CTV network. "Tillicum" was the result. The single was released in April 1971, charted in RPM at #77 with a bullet on May 8th, and reached #38 on June 5th. The track was included on their second album, "Long Lost Relatives" on True North TNX-5. To hear this record in stereo, type the following code - &fmt=18 - on the end of the URL and hit Enter to reload the page.

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