The instruments
Ciro plays the following synthesizers: Eminent, Mini Moog, ARP 2600 and EMS the synth AKS. The latter is used to create a looping sequence, where you can play with the flute.
The guitarist can use a ' Echorec 2 ' to bridge small pieces with an acoustic spiral effect, a base for the melody and the vocals. The unique concrete evidence of this experience is the recording of a concert, one of the very few ever played. This l takes place on 15 September 1977 just before the start of the ST. TROPEZ project.
This short experience is the first step to future developments In the field of natural sounds. Ciro is using some pieces for his solo work, such as Solare in 1980.
Anecdote
An unknown impresario offers S.N.C. a monumental French Tour. He is a mysterious character like many still infesting today the music business. He tells the band, that they need a transport van, a good technical staff, a good sound engineer and a light show for the stage. The band tries to find sponsors and ask everyone who can help them financially. On the wave of enthusiasm they manage to find everything needed to make that tour possible. Even some friends fall into debt to buy a beautiful Mercedes white van, not only a way of transport but a real mobile home for the band too. Other friends are attending courses for sound technician in a musical instrument shop in Nice. Everyone is dreaming already about a pre-program for Gong, Steve Hillage or David Allen during the upcoming French Tour.
But nothing happens in the end. When everything is ready, the band discovers, that the man we mentioned before, has gone. Just for the record, Ciro casually meet the fake impresario some years later and he confesses that all was just a big joke he had invented. This means the end of the S.N.C. project.