Around the World with Mr. Griddles: 2005 In the early 1970's, an instrument was invented called the Optigan. It was an optical sampler born a decade before the advent of digital audio. The scratchy, haunting sound grabbed producer Matt A. Thorne in 1999. He was helping a friend repair an original Optigan. "It could sound like 1930's champane jazz one minute and like cornball polanysian hula music the next. I knew I had to build a project around this instrument. That project is "Around the World with Mr. Griddles". It is a strikingly original haunting piece of music. If Pink Floyd made their first album in 1933, this is what it would sound like.

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