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I thought it was long gone too.....

Fran wrote:I thought it was long gone too.....

as I say I wouldn't swear to it but I thought it was there a while back. I didn't visit it or anything. Anyway.... that was the last reported sighting of George Murray!

dhyantyke wrote:

One of my all time favourites :) ...and I have it on cd too!! Oh, wouldn't I just love a vinyl pressing!

Ivor wrote:

cybot wrote: Wonder how George is now? Is he still around?

Across the road from Freebird on Wicklow Street is a basement shop called "Record Collector" you'll often find him behind the counter there!

That was a great shop at the back of Creation Arcade, it probably supplied the base for my punk/new wave albums after Advance closed.

Ah Record Collector! Good to know that George might still be there :) Must call in next time I'm up....

This is only just incredible!!!!!








Boomkat product review for:
Daphne Oram - The Oram Tapes: Volume One
*Deluxe quadruple vinyl comes in a gatefold edition, including 46 previously unheard recordings from the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, remastered and cut at D&M in Berlin* Two years in the making, this 46 track deluxe 4LP edition features two and a half hours of previously unreleased recordings from Daphne Oram's archives. None of this material has ever been available before and has been painstakingly compiled and restored from over 400 tapes before being mastered at Dubplates & Mastering and cut at 45RPM for extra depth. Daphne Oram, founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, died in 2003 leaving a colossal archive of reel-to-reel tapes and documents behind. This important collection of material eventually made its way to Goldsmiths College, London, who have been administering it on behalf of the Daphne Oram Trust for the last few years. The collection holds over 400 tapes made by Oram during her lifetime, and 211 of those have been archived and catalogued by the college so far. "The Daphne Oram Tapes: Volume One" is the result of almost two years spent trawling through the archive in an attempt to piece together a coherent document of one of the most pioneering and genuinely experimental characters in electronic music history. Although some of Oram's recordings have surfaced on the "Oramics" compilation, this set reveals a much more complex, dark, sometimes disturbing and often beautiful body of work which has, until now, been partially obscured by the more recognisable Radiophonic bleeps and whirrs the Workshop is best known for. This first volume focuses on Oram's love of experimental forms, of Musique Concrète, of the science and mystery of sound and composition. It comes at a time when her work is only just starting to gain wider acknowledgment in scholarly as well as popular circles. The "Oramics" machine (the first electronic musical instrument in history to be designed and built by a woman) has gone on display at the Science Museum in London, an important step in what will no doubt be a sustained effort to assert Oram's rightful position as one of the most important figures in modern music. Working through the archive has been a lifechanging experience, revealing a wealth of musical treasures that include recordings and sound effects made for '2001' and Jack Clayton's "the Innocents", all the way through to field recordings made in Africa. This first volume, put together with the help of Goldsmiths and Daphne's family, is the first in a planned series that will, for the first time, make Oram's most important and personal recordings available for public consumption.

Delighted to see that somebody appreciates the Tangs! Ricochet was my second introduction to their muse - Phaedra was the obvious first.... I still remember the original review in the weekly Sounds rag - '....better guitar solos than the Floyd'!!! etc etc etc it's a marvellous live document and I have to say Froese's sublime two minute piano solo at the start of side two still resonates almost 40 years later. At least it inspired me to go further afield than a country boy had a right to :-) He wasn't a great technician guitar wise but to me it didn't really matter....the sound and placement was everything. God I waited and waited with baited breath for the little shaky solo in the middle of side two....what a beautiful Fender sound too!! Which brings me neatly to the desirable item below; their very first soundtrack! What an opening salvo it was too which unfortunately turned sour and banal a million soundtracks later :( It really is the best one they ever did and at that time in their career it neatly summed up what they were about, juxtaposing their early electronic sounds with aplomb along with Phaedra like sequencer runs and absolutely spellbinding guitar near the end of side two....I used to think Froese put the guitar stuff near the end to make people listen to the whole record!







Jadarin,
Here's some 2011 podcasts from Bleep that might interest you....only received it today and initial listening has proved promising.....and it's free!!!!!!

http://bleep.com/?page=podcast&module=041

Cybot,
Only bought 'Ricochet' a few weeks ago and i was surprised how good it is.I've bought some TG over the years with alot of mixed
results.I think i'll stick to their earlier stuff from now on.
Thanks for the Bleep link.

Just been listening to the bleep podcasts.Free downloads!!!
The Steve Nolan (Allez-Allez) ones are just brilliant,especially no 33.
I know what i'll be listening to tonight.

jadarin wrote:Just been listening to the bleep podcasts.Free downloads!!!
The Steve Nolan (Allez-Allez) ones are just brilliant,especially no 33.
I know what i'll be listening to tonight.

Brilliant stuff :-) Delighted to know you're happy....