Peel squinted slowly and tilted his head at the sight of a great, green wave of curious exasperation that was edging toward him. He had grown accustomed to the unaccustomed. Ever since he had realized that Pink Floyd was actually Ferrari red when it emerged from the speakers and the blues were merely a subtle shade of shark-skin green, his perception of all things had become coloured by….well, colour. A famous doctor in Harley Street he had been recommended to, one Dr White (interestingly he turned out to be using words that emerged as mauve as a badge'rs nightgown) had diagnosed this as a severe case and his joyful admonishments broke pinkly grey on Peel’s steely orange resolve. Synethesia it seems, undeniable and silvery so. So Peel played guitar to soothe the violent violet inside himself. He called upon his friends and together they painted the waves of sound indigo blue, crushed velvet purple, Carribean sunset, dustman grey, perpendicular brown and solid thrust gold…

or, to put it another way……

Peel was having a charming dinner with his old chum Steve Palmer, he of the immaculate soundscapes and subtle novels. They decided to create a new musical project somewhere between the fish course and the cheese. Four ten minute pieces were decided upon. So Palmer went away and beavered. After a while he sent Peel his musical thoughts. Peel raised him four new musical thoughts and the thinking went on for quite a while between them, back and forth, to and fro. Somewhere in there Jay Tausig got coerced into playing the drums, most exquisitely. And then to finish it off, the mighty Rob Gould added further keyboards, tastefully, impeccably

So four ten minute pieces, devoid of vocals but infused with colour. One who heard it said he thought he had discovered a long lost Harvest album from the seventies. Another said it put him in mind of the times when people would sit cross legged in the dark so they could concentrate fully on the Gong or Barclay James Harvest album playing. Apparently the music is influenced by Tangerine Dream, Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, The Damned, Steve Hillage, Jeff Beck, Krautrock, Canterbury Rock, Vertigo, Vegetarianism, Arthur Koestler and Gustav Klimt (although not all at the same time)

(footnote from the ed...'Synethesia' is a long-lost early 70s UK instrumental progressive rock album that was recorded in 2025 by Icarus Peel, Steve Palmer, Jay Tausig and Rob Gould - all well-known to followers of FdM in various guises - take a trip back in time with P,P,T&G)

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