HISTORY FROM 1987

KURSK started recording on a FOSTEX X-15 with voice, bass, a Boss Reverb pedal and a Yamaha sampling keyboard And me singing.All recordings for the first 3 years were done in a small room in a Nurses residence at a Psychiatric Hospital in Kent, UK. Great acoustics but a lot of distractions. As you can kinda imagine.


By 1993 the recording equipment moved up to the outstanding TASCAM 644, with a Moog Rogue, Pro One, RSD-10, SE-50 and all the previous equipment. This tied in with a personal move into normal living arrangements in Westgate on Sea, Kent, UK. Moved to Ramsgate for 5 years and got a Korg Poly synth and then the 644 started to malfunction after 4 years of heavy use. The repair cost was way too much so I down-sized to the equally wonderful Tascam 424 Portastudio MK III. Mastering went from cassette to CD with a Phillips twin deck CD writer.


Relocated back to Westgate on Sea in 2002. All
equipment remained unchanged until I was given a Yamaha SY85 (thanks to my brother). Got rid of the Korg. Got a new standalone FX unit (BOSS). After 3 years, the tapes were beginning to clog the Tascam with oxide/adhesive so I went digital with a YAMAHA AW16g and a Zoom R-16. The most recent piece of equipment
obtained was in May 2013: a MicroKorg XL.<


Influences? EDGC, my brother, Herr King, Stan Ridgway, Ukrainian Folk Music, anything by Giovanni Gabrielli, Sophie B Hawkins, Kraftwerk, Popol Vuh, Amon Duul, Ben Neil, The Skids, Wendy Carlos, Philip Glass, Hamlet Gonashvili, Marta Sebestyen. . . . . . . . .  the list can go on from the 13th century through to the 19th century and beyond . . . . and although I do not love Jazz, I learn from Miles, the MJQ, etc . . . .<