In Reflection

Description

"In Reflection" is the debut solo album from legendary guitarist Marty Willson-Piper (The Church, The Saints, All About Eve) and was released exclusively on Chase Records in Australia in 1987. It has never been released on vinyl since, until now. The album was recorded entirely in a Bondi Beach apartment on a Teac A-3440 4-track tape recorder using a Roland rhythm arranger and the Sydney Morning Herald with a drumstick for the snare drum sound. As Willson-Piper says: "It was an early stunner for drum machines, and getting the pattern you wanted wasn't that easy, and such a machine wasn't on my radar. All the simplistic techniques involved in creating this music, as well as the instruments used, are detailed in the booklet. Recording alone and 'punching in' an instrument meant putting a heavy book on the record button of the remote control and dropping it using your bare big toe on the play button, activating record mode. That was the time."