28-09-2020, 05:32 AM
Simeon Coxe (Silver Apples) dies aged 82
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Featuring a home-made synthesiser built from nine 1940s' military (!) audio oscillators and 96 manual controllers, Silver Apples's self-titled first album sounded like nothing that had gone before - and sounds like nothing that has appeared since!
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Featuring a home-made synthesiser built from nine 1940s' military (!) audio oscillators and 96 manual controllers, Silver Apples's self-titled first album sounded like nothing that had gone before - and sounds like nothing that has appeared since!
Their vocalist and electronics wizard, Simeon Coxe, died on 9th September of pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 82.
A true pioneer.
R.I.P.
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[Photograph: Magic Theatre Music, 1968]