Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992-1999

Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999 marks the first public release by Larrison, the recording alias of Midwestern visual artist and musician Larrison Seidle. Composing, programming, and recording entirely on a Casio CZ-5000 during the halcyon days of early 90s homespun exploration and experimentation, Larrison inhabited a dreamworld of his invention, soundtracked by space age pop vignettes speckling with hypnotic, ebullient layered synthesizer melodies. Unfolding across 26 tracks, all newly restored and mastered from the original sources, Connecters Vol. 1 reinvents itself, song by song, transcending time and defying the fated obscurity of this brilliant, discreet music made three decades ago.

Larrison Seidle grew up in Greenwood, Indiana, a working-class suburb of Indianapolis, in the 70s and 80s. He did not come from a family of musicians, however a household that encouraged musicality. His father bought an electric organ, envisioning Larrision and his older brother learning the instrument. “It ended up with my father sitting at the organ some nights, making up, and playing over and over, this one song that I can still remember the first few bars of,” recalls Larrison. It was possibly in this moment absent of formal training but full of encouragement and exploration, the artist’s forays into musical experimentation took root. A permission to dabble that would distinctly color his creative output in the years to follow.