Album of the Week #32: The Deuce

Project name: [early keyboards]
Album name: The Deuce
Release date: unreleased (recorded in 1986)
Release format: cassette
Studio name: none

Tracks:
1. Take the Train
2. Baby Elephant Walk
3. Where Did Your Love Go?
4. City Life
5. Londonderry Air
6. Ioelios
7. Trauma at Barnes
8. Miami
9. Amphition
10. Night Vision
11. Night Vision II
12. Boogie E
13. Soul Rhythm
14. Vertigo
15. Preternatural

This was the first collection of songs Jason recorded that he also wrote. It was recorded in late 1986. During this time he also recorded the Christmas album Merry Christmas to Me. Although most of the songs on this tape are originals, there are a couple of covers that he had learned on the piano and often played. The covers were "Baby Elephant Walk" and "Londonderry Air".

The name of the album comes from the fact that it was the second tape he completed (following the Christmas tape). This method of album naming would continue throughout the early keyboard years.

These songs were recorded using a microphone pointed at the keyboard's speaker and plugged into a home stereo. For songs that have two sounds at once, he would record one sound into the left channel and then play the second sound in the right channel while dubbing the left channel.

This is the only know copy of the tape to exist. It has never been heard by anyone other than Jason.


Next week's Album of the Week: Diversity au Troi from 1986-87.