Robert Connolly -

Robert Connolly is a Canadian keyboardist, composer, producer, and film-maker who released the home-recorded album Plateau in 1978 on small-press Tube Records.

Background

Robert William Connolly was born in 1954 in Hamilton, Ontario, to a police-officer father. Connolly taught himself several instruments without formal music training. He finished high school, then spent several years as a professional musician on nightclub circuits across Canada.

At twenty, Connolly used money his father saved for university to build Cosmic Sound, an eight-track recording studio in Hamilton,, where he practiced self-production. By 1975, Connolly led Plateau, a theatrical band built around ancient-astronaut themes and multi-image projections for nightclub performances. Plateau recorded the 1975 Cosmic Records single “My Life” b/w “Under the Big House” at Cosmic Sound.

Connolly moved Plateau and the Scully eight-track setup into a partnership with Cottingham Sound in Toronto. Plateau continued on the bar circuit and recorded the fourteen-minute “Journey” at Springfield Sound in London, Ontario. Connolly dissolved Plateau roughly two years into the Cottingham period when no label offered a contract. The Plateau musicians authorized Connolly to retain the group recordings for a solo album. Connolly added material at Cottingham Sound and assembled the recordings for a self-financed LP on Tube Records.

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