Cha Cha Guitri - Non non non

I just recently came accross this one and thought it was worth sharing, if anything for the nun with the SYNTHI below. It immediately reminded me of the Every Nun Needs a SYNTHI ads. According to the article that the image is from, they formed around 1981. The article is in French and has one NSFW (not safe for work) image of a breast - fair warning if you pop it up with someone else within eyesight: [French | Googlish]. The following is the bit pertinent to synths followed by a translation of the full article. You can find the release via BandCamp above or in the article from Born Bad Records. I also wanted to post this for the way the female singer enunciates those lyrics.



"While they started out like everyone else, playing flute and acoustic guitar and listening to King Crimson, the arrival of synthesizers on the European music scene completely redefined their direction: they cut their hair, donned ties, and replaced Indian tapestries with Venetian curtains. Kraftwerk had clearly had an influence. It was around an EMS AKS synthesizer, a Roland SH101, and a Roland TR808 drum machine that the four friends gathered in their home studio to compose the carefree and joyful electronic and exotic tunes that are the hallmark of Chacha Guitry. The group thus chose to climb the sunny side of New Wave, the one taken by the B-52's or Isabelle Antena, rather than its dark side, cluttered with the heirs of Joy Division. The boys programmed the machines, while the girls created minimalist, geometric costumes using whatever materials were at hand (paper rather than fabric). Together they immortalize their youth on Polaroid, take glue and scissors to assemble photomontages in the style of their Dadaist idols."

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Synth Rorschach #83: Nuns and Synths

This one is in via Gerard P.

Reminiscent of Every Nun Needs a SYNTHI, and Pin Electronics more risque version.

Update from Loscha in the comments:

"That is Sister Mary Keller.
A very important woman.
First person to get a computer science Ph D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller"

Joystick Journeys: The VCS3 Collection

Sample set via The Electronic Garden

"Welcome to the weird, whacky and wonderful world of the EMS VCS3. This unusual instrument was developed by EMS in the late Sixties and intended as a portable electronic music studio. Unlike more famous instruments of the day, the VCS3 was initially released without an accompanying keyboard. As such, it was embraced (often by those under the influence of certain mood enhancers) as a resource for special effects. It became an electronic voice for space rockers, psychedelic bands and sound designers. The VCS3 and its big brother the Synthi 100 were used by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to create effects for many programs, including of course, Doctor Who. With clever marketing ("every nun needs a Synthi"), the VCS3 and its electronically identical suitcased brother the Synthi A became mainstays of the European rock scene. EMS itself was a hot spot, visited by many musical stars of the day.

What made the VCS3 so endearing? Why does it claim ridiculously high secondhand prices to this day? Perhaps because, keyboard-free, it invited atonal experimentation. Or maybe because it looked like the flight deck from a Gallifreyan time machine. It certainly wasn't because it stayed in tune! In fact, when the keyboard was eventually released, many musicians quickly discovered that its oscillators were hopelessly undependable, drifting and wobbling like spec of cosmic dust in a solar storm. Maybe its appeal came courtesy of that crazy push-pin routing matrix (which took the place of patch cords, but traded 'em for some pretty nutty cross-talk). It's an awful lot of fun to blindly stab pins into that thing and see what happens!"

Synth Ts

via these auctions 

Pictured:

EMS SYNTHI 100
EVERY NUN NEEDS A SYNTHI
SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PRO-ONE
ARP 2500
ROLAND TR-808 DRUM MACHINE
MOOG MODULAR SYNTHESIZER
ARP 2600
OBERHEIM EIGHT VOICE
ARP ODYSSEY LOGO
KORG MS 10
ARP 2600 Black

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Every Nun Needs a Box Set

via twitter.com/TaraBusch

EMS Synthi and the box set for Pilfershire Lane, which was just released in the UK.

If you are not familiar with the release, check out this search for more including video of the cool little diy kit included with the limited release.

Every Conductor Needs a Synthi

I saw this one on SURROUNDHEAD. Anyone know if it's an original? It's not listed on the Every Advert Needs a Synthi site.

Update via Matt in the comments: "It's listed in Peter Forrest's A-Z "As well as the Every Nun Needs a Synthi advert, there were also aads on similar lines for Every Picnic.., Everey Band.., Every Christmas.., and, more bizarrely, Every Conductor.., and Every Opera - this last one designed to co-incide with Glyndebourne"

Every Barbie Needs a Synthi

Awesome take on the Every Nun Needs a Synthi ad.

Via Wetdragoon.

"Just for fun, here is a shot of my synthi, inspired by the famous add: "every nun needs a synthi" ;)"

Click the image for a full size shot. Cool popsicle.

EMS SYNTHI Blog

Because every nun needs a synthi. Title link takes you to a new blog on everything EMS. I won't be posting everything that comes up there, as that would be wrong, so be sure to check back there, or just subscribe to it on your favorite RSS reader. Mine's Bloglines. I'm subbed.

EMS Adverts

I made reference to the Every Nun Needs a Synthi Advert on an earlier post and I thought it would be worth creating a post just on it. Click here for more Every X needs a Synthi adverts. Pretty cool advertising for a synth then and now.

Roland on a Bus

Just saw this on Vintage Synth Explorer. Shot appears to be taken in Tokyo based on name of jpg. Also, the thread starts with the Every Nun needs a Synthi jpg. If you haven't seen it check it out. Two more bus shots after the hop.