Biography
Lawrence Roger ‘Larry’ Fast is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, Nektar, and Hall and Oates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fast
Album & Cover
This was Synergy’s third album release. On previous albums no guitars were used but as was stated on the album; “Finally, guitars…sort of,” which references the use of a Russ Hamm Guitar Synthesizer played by Pete Sobel.
According to Audrey Powell, a lot of Synergy’s music was used in computer games and this is shown on the cover with a wavy ray of energy emanating from an oscillator, wrapping around a naked man on a city street at night. It was not an original design as it was used for a German advertising agency called GGK previously.
Cover Location: City street at night (London perhaps)
Who Did What: Photography: C. Christopherson
Label: Passport PB 6000(US)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
| Side One On Presuming To Be Modern I Phobos And Deimos Go To Mars (Parts 1 & 2) Sketches Of Mythical Beasts Disruption In World Communications On Presuming To Be Modern II |
Side Two A Small Collection Of Chords Full Moon Flyer Terra Incognita Trellis On Presuming To Be Modern III |
Credits
Mastered By – George Marino
Performer, Producer, Engineer, Programmed By – Larry Fast
Synthesizer [Guitar], Producer [Associate] – Peter Sobel
