a bit more on Ricochet:lemonstar wrote:My sentiments exactly. The first TD album I ever bought - without doubt the single piece of music that I have played and listened to more times than any other over the lonest period of time (decades!)24db wrote:I know it's been done (probably to death) but I justed wanted to start a thread on what I consider to be TD's finest moments (ok, make that one of their finest moments) Ricochet. For me it's the ultimate sequencer album, covering almost everything I found (and still find) amazing about the group. Polyrhythmic sequences, emotional Mellotron and piano, very odd Tron effects, some even weirder melodies, and some nice guitar and drums from messrs Froese and Franke.
Unbelieveable! I signed up to the forums and this was the first question on my mind - what exactly is that sound? I was sick to find the mysterious sound had been removed when I bought the CD as I was hoping to get a better listen. I was torn between two ideas 1) it sounded like someone either clapping their hands (or rather dusting their hands together at anacute angle if you can visualise that) or 2)a bank or series of switches being flipped - does anyone actually have the definative answer to the question about what this sound is - I would love to know for sure? Does anyone remember seeing or hearing this mystery sound being made at a concert?24db wrote: I still miss the clapping from the beginning of side two (for some reason this was edited out when Virgin remastered the album on CD....the fools, it adds a perfect atmosphere for the piano intro on part 2)
Edgar..."For Ricochet we used a rented eight track in Hemel Hempstead and we searched for a week in a mass of forty two or forty three tape sets for sequences; we still think the second side is one of the best pieces we'd ever done. It was taken from nine concerts and we added little bridges to join them together, not a new melody but just a low tone that made a key change. You see, we don't believe that whatever happens a concert should be put on an album- we think that the audience should get the best out of the whole tour. We couldn't add new sequencers on that album because we hadn't recorded a trigger track on the tape. Normally we'd do that today, because even with modern technology you get a sequence out of tune or out of step and a SMPTE code on the tape will let you overdub it in the studio".
Were you still using a drum kit on Ricochet?
Chris-"We were using the first electronic drum machines from Roland, plus a few percussive effects set up on the Moog Modular systems triggered by sequencers. On side one there was one part where we used congas: when we had the second side finished we didn't want to do the first side the same way so we went to the Manor and put the first side together in a proper studio."
Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, Jan 1985
