For much of his career, Alan Palomo has coaxed sounds from synthesizers and been at the forefront of the chillwave genre. With his fourth album — and his solo debut — he's changing it up.
, except to say it's a Casio he bought for $500. He's afraid mentioning the model might popularize it and make it shoot up in price, as has already happened for so many of these treasured machines from the 1970s and '80s.
Palomo looks more invited than intimidated, and trailing him around from machine to machine, you get the sense that he's a serious synth scholar. He drops terms like"subtractive,""oscillator" and"square wave," as he describes"scooping out frequencies" and"sculpting the sound.
"My dad saw that glint in my eye where he's like, 'He's connecting with the instrument.'" But when they returned later with the money they'd saved up, it was gone."So it was like the synth that got away," he says.
Jokes aside, recording under his own name is also a more direct reveal of his identity as a Mexican-American and native Spanish speaker."I'm not hiding behind a moniker anymore. It's Alan Palomo," he says."It's right there in the name."
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