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"UNKNOWN SYNDROMES" describes a quest for indigenous wisdom. It features expressive vocals and heavy analog synthesizer, as well as bi-phased guitar from Chuck Moses.

Synthesizer: Sequential PROPHET-5. Effect: Mu-Tron BI-PHASE. Electronic Percussion: Linn LINNDRUM, Pollard SYNDRUM QUAD.

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"UNKNOWN SYNDROMES"

The sounds of friction
Filter down from above;
Laughing liars lip-sync
Luna seas about love.

Notes from nowhere
Intrude, persist,
Like holes in time,
Moments we’ve missed.

This obsession
Grows stranger and stranger --
We are the agents
Of our own danger.

Unknown syndromes
Are more than hallucination!
Unknown syndromes!

Unknown syndromes
Move us to wider perception!
Unknown syndromes!

After a thousand attempts to erase our pain,
Questions without answers still drive us insane!
After challenging every claim within range,
Questions without answers are all that remain!

Looking for depth,
I’m back on the road;
The mass of this quest
Heaves a heavy load.

Cars blur in streaks, yeah,
The closer she comes;
Noticing my needs,
She stops for my thumb.

Sensing what’s in store
Since it’s nearing twelve,
I open the door
And enter her realm...

[Copyright 1984 Todd Tamanend Clark. All rights reserved.]

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from NOVA PSYCHEDELIA: SPECIAL EDITION, released October 31, 2005
Year: 1984. Personnel: TODD TAMANEND CLARK: Voice, Synthesizer, Percussion; CHUCK MOSES: Guitar; MARY ANGELINE: Synthesizer.

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Todd Tamanend Clark Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TODD TAMANEND CLARK was born on August 10, 1952 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania. He was deeply influenced by Native American cultures, owl ornithology, the Monongahela River, 1950s science-fiction cinema, silver age comic books, beat poetry, space jazz, and the American psychedelic music of the 1960s. He was an early pioneer of adding synthesizers and effects processing to a punk rock aesthetic. ... more

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