David, thank you so much for taking time out to do this Q/A for us and all the amazing music over the years. Solitaire is still up there as one of my all time favorite ambient albums. I was hoping for some insight and background to the creative process, recording, and equipment used on this album.

yo cheers fragmentated!
solitaire was an incredible fast approach at making an album. i was really stuck for money - litterally probably the first time when my card was eaten by an atm.
back in the glorious days of making business with pete (namlook), he was still paying advances so i knew, i just had to finish an album for him quick and i would be safe, at least for a while...
ended up doing the whole album within one week.
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i guess in/out was still on my desk from kunststoff sessions and i decided to start of with a really long build up ambient version.
definitely, the key track to the album.
it's a live take arranged on the desk and 808 in realtime.
instruments: main synth/brass/cello kinda 2 voice melody is the juno-106;
the diatonic upwards scale is a sequential pro one and the sequence is the default sequence of the pro one's internal sequencer.
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drums as mentioned before tr-808, internally sequenced at 32nd resolution.
16 chan fostex mixer
bass line and fm percussion / weird envelope sounds: yamaha tx-802
mid range chord stab: jupiter-6
faster high resonance melody might be mks-50

mad mood: whale chants pitched down (obviously)
boss se-50 step phaser preset
808 kick through ms-20 filter
synth freestyle solo / lfo noise beat (hi resonance noise) also ms-20
the track title is a dedication to "mad" mike banks.
copycat tape delay on all tracks

damaskus - dakar
after hearing the first solo track by my partner in deep space network jonas grossmann, i felt inspired to write something more cinematic and outside of the context of 90s ambient or anything...
lots of yamaha tx-802 long envelope stuff and that crazy oboe kinda sounding thing, as well.
prophet 2000 sampler for ethnic drum loop using internal analog filter.
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indian mantra
a "made in two hours" track.
wavetable intro: microwave 1 rev a
chords probably juno-106
drums tr-909
copycat tape delay
tb-303

p.m. stands for a living person and clearly is a love song.
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tr-808 through ms-20 filter
resonance melody: mks-50
crazy beatiful cheesy pitchbending etheral solo: tx-802
jupiter-6 arpeggio

always the same three four synths:
juno-106
mks-50
tx-802
microwave 1
ex-8000
pro-one
ms-20
tb-303
prodigy
prophet-2000

sergio leone's wet dream
the other more experimental and conceptual track on the album.
all midi sequencing on entire album: atari 1040 running c-lab creator. exploring automation of midi comtrol data on the tx-802 and the microwave (velocity).
vangelie noisy synth sequence: juno-106
i thought the strings were too, perhaps i even overdubbed something or used the 8-track reel to reel?
anyhow, one of my favourite tracks.
accidentally sounding like enio morricone, so this title is a dedication to him.
listen to the cello sound - substractive synthesis so lively and authentic...
gets me each time - and all of these were two track live recordings - before there was harddisk recording. so mixes would be non reproducable, which gave them a lot more meaning and importance than having to choose from 200 different versions that you saved from your DAW...
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amen, peace
pete you are still missed, love d