DAPHNE ORAM ORAMICS G/F 4LP RADIOPHONIC NEW SEALED 2010
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DAPHNE ORAM - ORAMICS. Young Americans Records YoungAm001 UK 4LP 2010. ORIGINAL PRESSING WITH GATEFOLD SLEEVE. Condition: New and Sealed.
The edition documents the illustrious output of electronic music pioneer Oram, who was the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It’s the first time that any of the material – 155 minutes’ worth – has ever been available on vinyl; the four platters were cut at Berlin’s Dubplates+Mastering and are housed in a heavyweight 300gm gatefold sleeve featuring rare archival photographs. Young Americans, the label that’s responsible for Oramics, say: “Daphne Oram was the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department she more or less single-handedly created in 1958 camping out at the BBC studios for nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to piece together her abstract soundscapes. Eventually the BBC bent under her pressure and in studio 13 created the soon-to-be-legendary Radiophonic Workshop, with Oram its first director. “Despite her considerable and historic list of achievements, Oram’s life and work remain largely unknown by the wider public. As this remarkable 44-track collection shows, however, her work ranks amongst the most varied and pioneering ever made. As opposed to so much of the Radiophonic-era material that has surfaced over the last few years, Oram’s work is often characterised by a layered and introspective quality, offsetting classic playful interludes and commercial recordings with beautiful, immersive pieces like the breathtaking ‘Pulse Persephone’ and ‘Bird of Parallax’ – pieces that simply have no equal in electronic music made at the time.” Put simply, without Oram it’s difficult to imagine that much of the music that we know and love today would exist at all. But, as Young Americans intuit, what makes her work remarkable isn’t just its “pioneering ” status, but its unique musical character, and its unmistakable human touch.
Tracklist:
A1 Introduction A2 Power Tools A3 Bird Of Parallax A4 In A Jazz Style A5 Purring Interlude.
B6 Contrasts Essconic B7 Lego Builds It B8 Pompie Ballet (Excerpt) B9 Intertel B10 Ardwick High School No. 1 B11 Look At Oramics B12 Rotolock.
C13 Purple Dust C14 High Speed Flight C15 Studio Experiment No. 1 C16 Four Aspects C17 Kia Ora.
D18 Dr Faustus Suite D19 Ardwick High School No. 2 D20 Tumblewash D21 Studio Experiment No. 2 D22 Snow.
E23 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 1) E24 Food Preservation E25 Studio Experiment No. 3 E26 Bala E27 Episode Metallic E28 Studio Experiment No. 4.
F29 Ardwick High School No. 3 F30 Fanfare Of Graphs F31 Studio Experiment No. 5 F32 Brociliande F33 Mary Had A Little Lamb F34 Incidental Music For Invasion (Excerpts).
G35 Costain Suite G36 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 2) G37 Passacaglia G38 Missile Away.
H39 Pulse Persephone H40 Ardwick High School No. 4 H41 Nestea H42 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 3) H43 Conclusion H44 Studio Jinks.
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