Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music from Way Out

In 1966, Perrey and Kingsley decided to release a second album as a follow up to their first production, The In Sound from the Way Out, however the album was released a year later. Referred to as the "French tape wizard",[4] Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley used the Moog synthesizer and Ondioline as well as tape, scissors and recordings of acoustic instruments to create "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Music from Way Out". Perrey and Kingsley had used the Ondioline and splicing methods on their first album, but the Moog synthesizer was implemented on this album since Perrey and Robert Moog had become friends around the time. Kingsley had also been inspired to use the Moog synthesizer after viewing some in action at a live New York Museum of Modern Art concert. The album was mostly versions of popular songs of the day. In this album, Perrey's tape loops and effects were added in post-production after Kingsley's orchestrations were recorded. The album use the new Moog modular synthesizer, a massive, complicated electronic instrument resembling an old-style telephone switchboard. In fact, the Moog album was released a year and a half before the release of Wendy Carlos' ground-breaking Switched-On Bach.

For the album, 14 songs were recorded, that unlike previous album, most of the songs were covers of popular songs from the time, among the catalog are versions of Strangers in the Night, "One Note Samba / Spanish Flea", A Lover's Concerto (which is based on the Minuet in G Major.[5]), Winchester Cathedral, Moon River and Mas Que Nada. There are also versions of the main themes of the films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Third Man.[1]

Among the catalog are also original songs such as "The Savers", "Fallout", "Baroque Hoedown", "Carousel of the Planets", "Toy Ballons" and "Pioneers of the Stars". Of which "The Savers" and "Pioneers of the Stars" were recorded in 1966 and released previously in a single called "The Savers / Pioneers of the Stars", being one of the first tracks that used the Moog synthesizer.[2] The album includes more serious tracks such as a cover of Umbrellas of Cherbourg Theme, Moon River, and "Carousel of the Planets" with similar shades of Theremin.[1]

In 1972 was used like the opening to the American television game show The Joker's Wild to 1978,[6][7] the song "Carousel of the Planets" was used for the opening of the show Éramos Seis, belonging to the chain TV Tupi, it was used during its repetition in 1980 as a consequence of the crisis that the TV Tupi chain was going through. A track on Siriusmo of the 2010 album The Plasterer Of Love, titled "Blaue Sonne", features a sample of the cover of "A Lover's Concerto", the album "Roses on the Piano" of the year 2018 composed by Goblin Cock includes a cover of the song "The Savers".[8]