The man behind Synergy is Larry Fast a native of New Jersey who was to have a far-reaching effect on the use of synthesizers in rock music during the seventies and eighties.

Larry Fast first came to prominence with the release of the debut album from Synergy called Electronic Realizations For Rock Orchestra in 1975. Prior to the release of Synergy’s debut Larry Fast had been at college. Initially Larry trained as a violinist and pianist before entering college and taking a few computer science courses. It was during this period that Larry Fast became interested in synthesized music and began to build his own synthesizers.

At this time he was introduced to Rick Wakeman at a local radio station and both musicians enjoyed an immediate rapport with Larry Fast interesting Rick Wakeman in his home made instruments and his customizing of existing synthesizers. He was invited over to England to assist with the synthesizers on the Yes album Tales From Topographic Oceans. 

Shortly after this Larry Fast gained a record contract, which saw the beginning of Synergy and the subsequent release of the debut album which received plaudits from no lesser person than Robert Moog himself who at the time claimed the album to be “the most important recording using his Moog synthesizer”.

Soon after the release of the debut Synergy album Larry Fast was introduced to Peter Gabriel who at the time had just left Genesis to embark on a solo career and Larry was invited by Gabriel to help with the synthesizer work on Peter’s series of self titled solo albums. During this time Larry also worked as part of Peter Gabriel’s live band and performed on many sessions for diverse artists including Foreigner, Kate Bush, Art Garfunkel, Hall and Oates and The Fugees in addition to recording and releasing albums with Synergy.

Sixty Minutes With Synergy features music from across this groundbreaking musician’s catalogue including an incredible re make of Classical Gas from the now legendary debut album Electronic Realizations For Rock Orchestra. And also music from the award winning soundtrack The Jupiter Menace from which we have included the title track. Larry Fast continues to record diverse albums for film soundtracks and also albums in their own right. In addition to this of course Larry Fast is still in high demand as a session artist and has graced countless hit records and albums for a dazzling array of musicians and artists.