Review: Originally released in 1977, Roland Kayn's Simultan gets a much needed reissue here on Italian label Die Schachtel. A student of Boris Blacher, Josef Rufer, Fritz Winckel and Oskar Sala, Kayn composed or instruments (mainly the organ and the piano) and worked mostly on what he called cybernetic music - a concept based on programming long format compositions on early computer systems. He must be seen as a pioneer of this genre of modern music, but remained largely unknown, releasing 21 albums between 1970 and 2006. He sadly passed away in 2011. This is among the best of all avant-garde electronic works of its era.
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