Word: echoplex
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Barefoot Ballet is his latest and most polished album. It's complex yet the intricacies of its composition are unobtrusive. He uses something called an Echoplex which does just that. However his music rises above mere electronic gimmickry. And the songs--instrumentals--are hard to choose between. My own favorites are the title track, "Whisper to the Wind," "Poem Painter" and "Talking Hands...
...Hancock and the others retain from jazz is improvisation. From rock they have taken the steady, pervasive beat, and especially electronic instrumentation. In his 1971 album Mwandishi (Swahili for composer), Hancock made his first extensive use of electronic sounds with such instruments or devices as electric bass, electric piano, echoplex and phase shifter. Head Hunters finds him, in addition, employing the Arp Soloist synthesizer (for melody) and the Arp Odyssey synthesizer (melody and color). As if to justify his expenditures, Hancock says: "There is only so much you do with a keyboard...
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