Fayshalarts Music

Welcome to the official Fayshalarts website. We are an Electronic Music Composing duo, we started making synthesizer music some 25 years ago now, influenced by the likes of Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, Bill Nelson. Lots to hear and see here, so get clicking and join in the fun!

Check out 'The Music' section to hear our tunes, we offer free short playable clips and optional full HiFi Stereo downloads.

The Band History page is where you'll find a full and complete history on Fayshalarts, synths they used and are currently using, their claim to fame and how it all began.

Way back in 1983 two young men by the names of "Paul Barrett" & "Stephen Skipper" formed a Band of their very own... If my memory serves me correctly, Stephen came up with the name, a sort of play-on words...
'Facial Arts' into 'Fayshalarts'...

We both had a common interest in the electronic music of that time,
influenced by the likes of Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Bill Nelson,
Human League and FadGadget to name but a small few. So the direction that our music was going to take was already set, We purchased some instruments and started making music...

In the beginning (1983-1985) our setup was extremely basic, the kit list comprising of just a Casio MT20, Jen SX1000, Siel Mono, Soundmaster SR88 Beat Box, Realistic 6 Channel mixer...