Takla Makan: Electronic Music by Tony Allgood
I started making synthesisers for one reason. I wanted to make music. These seven albums represent my more recent offerings. All are now available as digital downloads. Click on the blue links below to take you to the album's own homepage.
Kirkcarrion (2011)
Landlines (2009)
Contour (2007)
Farewell to Mount Fuji (2005)
1632 (2003)
ArcSin (2002)
Drumlin (1997)
Drumlin and ArcSin are now available for free by following the links above.
Kirkcarrion, Landlines, Contour, Farewell to Mount Fuji and 1632 albums are available as 320kB/s mp3 files from me for 2GBP each. Please e-mail me here for Paypal details or use the 'Buy Now' button on the album webpages.
Alternatively you may purchase either mp3 or FLAC versions of the more recent albums at MusicZeit.com.
One man and his synths...
I have played and experimented with sound for some 30 years now, and in the early days my personal compositions were often influenced by a World Gazetteteer at the back of some old encyclopedias I had. The pictures in the book inspired me to write many long, and I might say now, rather self indulgent pieces of electronica. I needed a name for my self penned compositions so again I turned to the gazetteteer. I came up with "Takla Makan". According to the book, Takla Makan is a vast area, over 100,000 square miles, of upland China. It is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world. So nothing to do with music or electronics then, but it seemed to capture my imagination at that time....
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