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Moral Support

Origin Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Moral Support was a Montréal synth-pop / Italo-disco duo formed in 1982 by Sandro Durante and Richard Cranford, two musicians who built their sound around layered keyboards, sequencers, and a distinctly European-minded electronic aesthetic. Signed to Tony Green’s TGO label, the pair issued a small but memorable run of Canadian singles including ‘Living With Passion’, ‘Rising’, and the standout ‘Strange Day For Dancing’, the latter earning a 1984 CASBY Award nomination for Single of the Year. Their lone LP, Insanity (1985), was digitally pre-produced in Montréal using a Roland MPU401 MIDI Processor, then recorded at Listen Audio and mixed at Marko Studios, capturing the polished, club-ready sound that made Moral Support one of the more distinctive Canadian electronic acts of the mid-1980s. Though their recording career was brief, ending around 1986, tracks like ‘Living With Passion’ and ‘Strange Day For Dancing’ later found a second life among European Italo-disco and minimal synth collectors, giving the duo a lasting cult reputation well beyond Canada.

-Robert Williston

Lineup

Sandro Durante: vocals, keyboards, performance
Richard Cranford: vocals, keyboards, performance

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