As for the date of the recording, it's anyone's guess really. The liner notes from Group 1850's Purple Sky box set states "were said to be made at Sjardin's home in The Hague 1969", which means they don't know for sure, but that's the prevailing theory. For years it was presumed to be from 1978 - and while it doesn't sound modern in the 1978 sense, given that it was Sjardin's own keyboard creation, it's not a stretch to believe either. There's plenty of albums from the late 70s that used primitive electronics. Sjardin himself was mentally far gone in his last 30 years, and now he's no longer alive, so the secret may have gone to the grave with him.
CD: 2019 Pseudonym
Part of the Purple Sky box set. Apparently this was set for release in 1982 by the Universe label, despite its very non-commercial nature by that late date. It's said that only 25 test pressings were made. Given the sheer lack of available product (never once been auctioned on ebay, one total ownership on Discogs), it's a believable number.
Did you also know of the Collectable Vinyl re-release of this album?
ReplyDeleteIt is an exact copy of the one known copy of the original pressing.
The Pseudonym cd is heavely filtered, due to scratches on the 'master' record. But the filtering and editting altered the sound. I think it sounds nice and play it also, but the original sound differs quite a bit.
The music is inspired by the track 'Verandering' which means 'change' in Dutch.
ReplyDeleteIt was recorded in 1969. The so called testpressing was an original pressing. Due to several differences the hole stack was distroyed, but someone 'saved' one box of 30 pieces. They were auctioned in 1989 and all disapeared in private collections. Only 1 got listed on Discogs.
I have this info from his brother and his former manager.
Thank you Jan for this great information!
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