Lagos '82, we feel sure you can't have failed to notice, is missing something. "Schtop!" I hear you cry. "It'sch not ready yet!"
The missing ingredient is in the verses, and we think we've found the machine we want. It's an RS202, a string synthesizer from 1976. You've almost certainly heard something like it; it works like an electric organ, with a single pitch-generator running at high frequency and some clever circuits to divide the waveform into manageable (i.e. audio-frequency) notes. Unlike an electric organ and like an analogue synthesizer, there's also a reasonable amount of enveloping and filtering cleverness going on.
The real magic, however, comes from the chorus unit. Without it, you have a passable and rather lovely synth wash. With it, you are immersed in a world of rich, textured, creamy goodness. It's a cheesy sound in some ways but we're hoping it will be the yoghurt to the rest of Lagos '82's curry.
Having said all this ... we don't have an RS202.
So for the recording, the Odyssey will be pretending to be an RS202, and for live, we'll be putting a relatively boring transistor organ through a chorus unit.
Stay tuned.