DELIA DERBYSHIRE
THE DREAMS (LP) (LTD)
Label | FANTÔME PHONOGRAPHIQUE |
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Catalog | OME1022 |
Format | LP |
Discs | 1 |
Category | ROCK/POPS |
Street Date | 2019-06-14 |
- LP LIMITED EDITION - 500 COPIES NUMBERED. Delia Derbyshire is one of the most innovative electronic musicians of the 20th Century. She is best known for her pioneering work for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and for composing the classic theme song for the original Doctor Who believed to be the earliest electronic theme song in television history. A brilliant composer and one of the few women operating in the early era of electronic music In the early ’60s she collaborated with the British artist and playwright Barry Bermange for the BBC’s Third Programme to produce four Inventions for Radio a collage of people describing their dreams set to a background of electronic sound. This is the first simply titled Dreams an attempt to represent in sound the sensation of dreaming. Derbyshire’s electronic and musique concrete soundbed is the perfect underscore to the narration simultaneously jarring dissonant and terrifying. An amazing piece of work from one of the legendary pioneers of electronic music.
- 1. Running
2. Land
3. Falling
4. Colour
5. Sea