Private Dreams & Public Nightmares

*This is the third album release on andrea parkers avant-garde aperture label. A label carving it's own niche in experimentalelectronic music. Other artists to date have included Oberman Knocks, clifordandcalix, and remixes from the likes of LukeVibert, Freeform, Majestic 12, Andrea parker and Daz Quayle.*The album at hand is a concept album which re-works and re-interprets original, unheard sounds from the Daphne Oramarchives to create eight unique original pieces culminating in an album which includes two live performance's by AndreaParker and Daz Quayle.*Done purely as a labor of love in their spare time, Parker and Quayle have incorporated some of the less-obvious,unnerving sounds they discovered hidden in the archives to explore a different side of Daphne Oram, a darker side. Whatdeveloped was a deeply personal album, drawing on Parker's in-depth knowledge of Daphne Oram's life and works,containing pieces created as they hoped Daphne Oram herself would have done with the sounds that she had made.*Daphne Oram should need no introduction... British pioneer and forerunner of modern electronic music, founder of theBBC Radiophonic Workshop. She's the genius who built the Oramics machine. She is also one of Parker's idols. It was herobsessive interest in collecting sound effects records and her passion for electronic pioneers that first introduced her toDaphne Oram and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. A chance meeting with Phil Howlett at The Royal Festival Hallultimately led to her direct involvement with the Daphne Oram Trust, through trustee Dr. Mick Grierson, who gave Parkerpermission to create a unique concept album using some of Daphne Oram's original sounds. In doing so she became oneof the first people to be given unrestricted access to the Daphne Oram Archives, containing hundreds of tapes ( 211 to beprecise ) of original, unheard sounds created by Daphne Oram herself.*Private dreams and public nightmares starts with an interview featuring Daphne Oram recorded for women's hour for theBBC. Followed by two pieces performed live by Parker and Quayle, one for the Short Circuit Festival supporting the BBCRadiophonic Workshop at The Roundhouse and also for 'Oramics: The Life and Works of Daphne Oram' at The RoyalFestival Hall. The album sounds minimal , yet in some pieces up to 80 insular sounds were used to create a detailed pathto lead your ear through the unknown.*An intense piece of work. This album is challenging, isolationist, using a spectrum of dark sounds running throughout withthe occasional beat, lots of bass that certainly weigh it down, giving it a distinctive, moody and ominous sound. There arechords as well as lots of bleeps, electronic clangs and plenty of sinister drones that force their way into your consciousness,leaving you feeling possibly unstable with emotional tension. Its fearsome, haunting and downright scary at times, certainlynot for the faint hearted. Its definitely not easy listening, but be patient and you will find extraordinary pieces delivered in anunnerving way.