"Etosha" was my first record project where I was the "Artist". I was actually the first person signed to Private Music, a then brand new label created by Peter Bauman, a German synthesist who had done a stint with Tangerine Dream.

"Etosha" was one of the very first Compact Disc releases to be recorded completely digitally from start to finish. It was rocket science in those days. We had to have a guy in a lab coat run the machines. I think it was 1982 or 1983. I think half the reason "Etosha" sold was that at that time CD's were a brand new novelty, and there wasn't much out there to buy. ("Etosha" was released on vinyl as well).

The sounds on the recording are also almost all Fairlight CMI. the Fairlight CMI was the first sampling computer music workstation. State of the art for the time, it cost as much as a house and had a whole 8 voices with 64k (that's kilobytes!) of memory per voice. All the sequencing was done on the wonderful "Page R" on the Fairlight.

Many of the sounds are re-synthesized samples of my voice, and sounds I recorded out in nature. Quaint, and so common now, these techniques are taken for granted, but back then there were only a few people on the planet doing such stuff. Not that that makes the music any good!

The record was mixed at Phillip Glass's studio in NYC.