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Answering Machine Song

from Requests from the Vault 96k 24bit by Amin Bhatia

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Answering Machine Song (1988)
Roland S50

The strangest song I’ve ever done in my life and one of the most requested. It used Roland’s first digital sampler the S50 at a time when telephone answering machines were a big deal.

So I sampled my voice and used a short version of this piece as my outgoing message. In the full version I incorporated a melody from Handel’s Water Music. That’s the version that Music 96 FM in Calgary played on the air.

They told listeners that they could phone my house and hear this message and then they announced my home phone number on the air! This led to my phone ringing hundreds of times with total strangers leaving wacky messages of praise. Unbelievable!

(Pictured: The Bhatia Family,1985)

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from Requests from the Vault 96k 24bit, released November 22, 2021

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Amin Bhatia Toronto, Ontario

Award winning composer Amin Bhatia has written music for film, television, and albums, for several decades. His solo albums Interstellar Suite, Virtuality and Requests from the Vault pay homage to his love of science fiction and neo-orchestral synthesis. Scoring projects include Anne with an E, Flashpoint, The Handmaid’s Tale, Queer as Folk, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, and Iron Eagle 2. ... more

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