Talk:Hyperborea (album)

Sitar

The article says that "No Man's Land" makes heavy use of sitar. Listening to it, I can't hear any - it sounds like digital electronics from beginning to end. "Cinnamon Road" has a little bit of sitar, but only a tiny bit. The album itself doesn't have any instrumental credits and most of the internet sources just parrot Wikipedia. Is there any evidence the band used sitar on the record? It sounds more like PPG Wave-style wavetable synthesis.. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 20:18, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Since it seems I added this claim back in 2006: there is a kind of a disassembly (appearing on the bootleg collection Electronic Orgy) where the band presents a breakdown of the instrumentation used on the track, with one of the main melody lines being sampled sitar. The bootleg version itself provides no credits, but supplement info circulated on fansites attributes the origin of this to a 1985 issue of Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music. --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 09:52, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

…And yes, "heavy" is probably unwarranted, the sitar is present for most of the track but still just one of the multiple layers. --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 09:54, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]