07/16/2024

Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs from Freedom To Spend

Next up for Freedom To Spend’s uncommon¢ series, Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs. Self-published in a microscopic, one-sided 12” edition in 1988 to accompany the young, nomadic composer and virtuoso’s immersive multimedia performance at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium.

Created with this outer, and other, world setting in mind, the four tracks find walker stretching toward an ancient-to-future vision where Egyptian myths and Hieronymus Bosch-ian tableaus are rendered in a screaming three dimensional circuitry of electronic drums, synth guitars, and, of course, Minimoog. Given the musical terrains and outmoded topics traversed, Minstrels & Minimoogs is as perplexing and euphoric a document lost-to-time as it is now found.

Check out “Flagellant,” the first piece from the album, below, and pre-order the album ahead of its Friday, August 23 release date.