Description
‘EARLY WORKS OF CHARMING INSIGNIFICANCE’
Previously unreleased, these tracks are the missing link between the band’s “Untitled” 10″ and “Scene In Mirage” LP. A shadow album to their debut, it shows the inner workings of a group of 19 year olds from Nottingham finding their sound, embracing electronica but moving towards ambient. At times naive but always charming.
This excavation is based on a very deep dive into the various cassettes and master tapes of their archive. While OYC had thought they’d documented their early years sufficiently with the “Ambiguism” box set, it soon became obvious the task was incomplete. They reassessed many unreleased tracks they had previously thought insignificant and of no value, and were surprised to discover that wasn’t the case.
“1983 Unearthed” can be seen as a forerunner to “Scene in Mirage”, sharing the same format of two opposed and contrasting sides. The U side (tracks 1-6) is compiled from unreleased beat-driven cassettes, while the Y side (tracks 7-10) is primarily from the ambient soundtrack to an early unreleased version of their Peripheral Vision video.
Despite the radically different approaches, this record shows that 1983 was a defining year for the band as they strove to find their sound.
TRACK LIST
U1. Hour and Hour 03:14
U2. Lazarus 01:54
U3. Foundation 03:23
U4. Plagiarism 04:31
U5. London Unreal 02:15
U6. The Phoenix Program 03:14
Y1. Twoflute Dreaming 03:57 video
Y2. Wind on Wheels 04:06
Y3. Gibbon Theory 01:48
Y4. Transcontinental Levitation 12:30
Side U
Source: stereo cassettes
Instrumentation: SH09, TR606, guitar, bass, radio & found sounds, clarinet, bugle, WEM Copicat, syndrum, BOSS flanger, phaser & auto-wah.
Recorded at The End Room, Babbington, Notts.
Side Y
Source: 4 track cassette & quarter inch studio masters.
Instrumnetation: MS20, Powertran DDL, marimba, flute, location & found recordings.
Recorded at Complex Studio, Leeds.
Tracks Y2, Y3 & Y4 originally made for the video ‘Peripheral Vision’ (1983)
A FINAL IMAGE ARCHIVE RELEASE.
