The Wild Bull

Based on an ancient Sumerian poem, Subotnick's follow-up to his highly influential milestone Silver Apples Of The Moon is no less an adventurous sonic trip on the Buchla synthesizer.  Born 1933, Subotnick is a key figure in the progress of electronic music: along with Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Centre in 1961 and from 1963 on he worked with Don Buchla on the development of the early synthesizer "Buchla Series 100". In 1967 the composer and musician released his debut "Silver Apples Of The Moon", which proved to be one of the most influential albums and an undoubted milestone in electronic music (which was even selected for the Library Of Congress in 2009). A year later Subotnik presented his adventurous follow-up The Wild Bull. Loosely based on / inspired by an ancient Sumerian poem of the same name - a lament about loss and death caused by war - the two parts embark on further explorations into the hitherto unimagined creative possibilities of the synthesizer. 54 years after its initial release, The Wild Bull has not lost a single bit of its visionary magnitude and is still an adventurous sonic trip.