Loops & Reels (Analogue Experiments 1980-1983)

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Release Date: 1993-11-01

Label: Fie! Records

Released in a standard jewelbox with a 4 page booklet.

(Wrong) Track lengths printed on CD: 5:51, 8:13, 2:56, 5:28, 3:21, 15:38, 4:09
Two songs, two dance pieces, four near instrumentals.

These are experimental recordings undertaken before the Age of Sampling.
Many of the manipulations, using Analogue Tape as medium, pre-echoed those of Digital Technology.
This was, and is, abnormal work.

'My Pulse' was the music for a ballet choreographed by Nikolas Dixon
'In Slow Time' was the backing track for a dance/vocal performance, also choreographed by Nikolas Dixon
'A Ritual Mask' first appeared on 'Music and Rhythm', the WOMAD Benefit Album
These recordings were first released in 1983 on cassette only (from inlay).

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