Japan – Quiet Life
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1979 album Quiet Life.
Music from Quiet Life
Artists on Quiet Life
Gear Used On Quiet Life
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Japan – Quiet Life (1979). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
David Sylvian
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Keyboards and Synthesizers used by David Sylvian on Quiet Life
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‘I’ve lived with the Prophet since the days of Quiet Life. I still use it because it has a more organic sound than something like a Kurzweil or Fairlight. But I did become very frustrated with it when I first started recording Gone to Earth. I’d just sit in the studio for ages staring at it thinking: “why can’t I get a different sound out of this thing?”.’
David Sylvian did intense synth programming on the Tin Drum almost exclusively with the Prophet-5. For example, the synth pluck chords from Ghosts in the choruses (according to Richard Barbieri in interview published in Sound On Sound magazine July 2021 issue) which some mistook for a DX7 sound (when in fact the song predates it, and is testament to the programming done). Some cassette interfacing was also done with the Prophet on Tin Drum, where sounds from various tapes were triggered and gated off the synth (e.g. the outro voices in Talking Drum), hence the credit of ‘tapes’ on the LP. (Source: SOS July 2021)
