Passage is an experimental album released in 1980 by American composer Richard Peaslee. It contains five formerly unidentified songs originally posted by Kenny Cathead: Chelsea, Jericho, Terra Nova, The Iron Compass and Boogie.
History[]
The album Passage was released in 1980 as an independent project. At the time of the album's creation, the composer was 50 years old, which reflected the maturity and depth of the musical material. People such as David Van Tyghem and Allan Jaffe took part in the work on the album. The album is characterized by its layered sound, experimental approach to electronics, innovative use of synthesizers, and complex composition structure. Passage became an important stage in Peaslee's work, demonstrating his maturity as a composer and experimenter in the field of electronic music.
Search history[]
On June 11th, 2023, YouTube user Kenny Cathead posted an hour and a half long video titled "Unknown" to the website. It featured over a hundred snippets that were recorded off of the radio in the 1980s. The video included five that happened to be from this album:
- "Synth Library Track"
- "Heroic Electronic Crescendo"
- "Kraftwerk-Like Song"
- "Urgent Synth-pop"
- "Synthesized Traditional Rock Riff"
From June 15th, 2023 to June 26th, 2023, Kenny Cathead posted the snippets of these songs on WatZatSong.
On October 12th, 2023, user Bloost Media discovered that "Synth Library Track" was a song titled Chelsea by Richard Peaslee. After that, he discovered that those four other songs were by the same artist, and were from the same album.
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Kenny Cathead’s Lostwave Songs | |
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| (No 467) Spielplatz • All The Way (by Bohemia) • And Many, Many More • Angels • At Night • Autobahn • Baby Happy • Boogie • Break Down Those Walls • Breakaway • Carving The Future From Soap • Chelsea • Chemistry • Dancing In A Trance • Der Tag Schlägt Zu • Different View • Electric Gnome Dance • Étude In Sine • Find Her • Flesh And Steel (Extended Version) • Four Minutes With God • Gdansk • Grey At Present • I Am A Vapour • I Go So Low For You • I'm Not Your Doormat • Iron Curtain • Jenny's Doin' Fine • Jericho • King’s Gambit • Love Dance (Love Mix) • Middle Class • Music Machine • No Stranger To Glenda J. • Paradise Eyes • Poland • Rain (by Art Fleury) • Sixes And Sevens • Someone's Changing • Somewhere in New York • State St. • Stranger (by Shöx Lumania) • Synthetic Pleasure • Terra Nova • The Biggest One • The Deaf Mute • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter • The Iron Compass • The Lesson • The Merger • The Station I'm In • Tribes • Violate the Video • Waiting For The Night • Woman • You Make It Hard | |
| Above Me • Bruce Haack-Like Song #1 • Bruce Haack-Like Song #2 • Chiptune Track • Classical Electronic Piano Piece • Country Rock Oriented Excerpt • Dream Infinitely • Dream Through The Door • Dissonant Trombone • Dramatic Pipe Organ • Echoey Drums • Electronic Barking Dog Sample • Early 80s Post-Punk Excerpt • Energetic Power Pop • Experimental Guitar • Fairlight Demo • Fashion Hurts Remix • Frightful String Quartet • Funhouse Electrp • Happy Pure Electronic • How Happy Life Can Be • I'm Only Dreaming • I’m Just A Boy • Intense Electronic Piece • Klaus Schulze-Like Song • Liminalist Spacey Ambient • Mannheim Steamroller-Like Song • Melancholic Synth • Mid 80's New Wave Excerpt #3 • Mid 80's Synthpop Excerpt #1 • Mid 80's Synthpop Excerpt #2 • Minimal Synthwave • Minimal Wave #1 • My Uncle Pete • New Age Piece Ending • New Wave Guitar Riff • Nothing Had Changed • Ominous Electronic Piece • Progressive Rock Excerpt • Prolonged Guitar Strum • Psychedelic Folk Tune • Pure Electronic Piece • Pure Electronic Piece #4 • Radical Synthpop • Rapid Minimal • Rapid Spooky Synthpop • Rockin’ Garage Tune • Screaming Punk Rock • Scratching Electro • Silly Synth • Skipping Punk Rock • Smooth Jazz Excerpt • Soft Piano Ballad • Spacey Electronic Pieces • Spooky Electro • Suspenseful Electronic Piece #2 • Tangerine Dream-Like Song • Twangy Pop Rock | |
| Dark Synthpop [Chemistry Set - Carpe Diem?] • Walls Of Fire [Armand Zone - Walls Of Fire (Demo)?] | |