Identify this weird panpipe disco synth delay-soaked fusion thing for me please

Probably between about 1982 and 1985, a friend of a friend of my dad made him a copy of Heavy Weather by Weather Report. And on the b-side they added this track:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8347826/pan%20pipe%20disco%20fusion%20thing.wav

I've known and loved it since I was about 6, but I've never worked out who or what it was. Any clues?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100613021822AAsPSua

this should happen :)

sorry for the non-answer.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/find-name-of-songs/12316/

These things kind of exist already don't they? I mean, shazam works, and there's an itunes add on called tuneup that works that way to tag files too. But I've tried both of those with this, neither recognised it.

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thanks for that, van smack. I never knew.

I can't help you identify this song but I am very grateful that you've shared it with us!

On the Weather Report front, could it be something from Wayne Shorter's Brazilian-ish album? "Native Dancer?"

damn this song is ridiculous

like, that end part with the really freaky synth and the big strings and the talk-box- sickkkk

Just listened to a minute or two of each track on Native Dancer, they all sound GREAT but no, it's none of those.

Spoke to dad about this, apparently the friend in question was a guy who worked in a hifi shop in Newcastle, and he'd get sent Type IV cassettes (the "metal" ones) with pre-recorded stuff on there. The idea being that he could demo the supposedly superior quality of more expensive tapes by playing this stuff in store. This is from one of those. So who knows, it could even have been put together by in house engineers at TDK or something.

def sounds like zawinul keys tho

jeez that's a swell tune. done a bit of rummaging w/ regards to my best guesses but turned up nowt. c'mon you dusty groove DJ hipsters put us out of our misery!

I'm starting to think it's maybe a shakuhachi rather than pan pipes. And that maybe the whole thing is Japanese in origin. There are hints of tomita in that slow synthy midsection, plus the whole thing sounds kinda stylistically similar to the demos that were pre-loaded on the Yamaha SY series synths.

man you had me at "weird panpipe disco"

Cool piece of music. No idea, but maybe John Kaizan Neptune?

http://www.raganet.com/Issues/4/neptune.html#Discography

I'm starting to think it's maybe a shakuhachi rather than pan pipes. And that maybe the whole thing is Japanese in origin.

I agree with this. To me, it sounds like the Japanese-flavoured fusion jazz band Hiroshima, but I'm familiar enough with their output to say if it's their tune. They were active in the early 80s though.

"I'm not familiar enough"

Thanks for the track!

ya, that track's pretty great. no idea who it is, but something weather report connected does make sense.

i recently picked up a John Neptune record from 1980 and it doesn't really sound like this at all. i'm also not 100% sure that's a real shakuhachi on your song. sorta sounds like a keyboard, but it's got good vibrato, so maybe not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg3k-Fr31Eg

This has got to be Andrew Latimer.

or Camel.

sorta sounds like a keyboard, but it's got good vibrato, so maybe not?

I doubt it's a keyboard, since in the beginning you can hear the guy playing it drawing breath after playing it.

Yep, plus the synth sounds and production on this make me think it dates from about 76-78. That's just a bit too early for sample based synths, everything else on here is definitely analogue.

Will put in some spotify time checking out these suggestions though, thanks.

ok i'm bumping this in this thread on the offchance anyone has a clue
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2hokuuk13o49iti/pan_pipe_disco_fusion_thing2.mp3/file

Oh wow, super grateful someone kept a copy of this at least, lost mine at some point in these last 10 years, both the mp3 and the C90 it came from, so thankyou!

I'm starting to wonder about Ned Rotherberg? https://www.discogs.com/artist/248880-Ned-Rothenberg

Maybe I should bung it on youtube and see who sends me a takedown.

rothenberg's too no-wavey / insect improv loft-skronk for this.
camel / latimer was pretty close.
definitely pan pipe NOT shakuhachi