Forget about this, it's for interest only: The Delia tapes
Great piece on the BBC website on the attic Delia tapes, including some fantastic Aphex-style beats, only 20 years or so before RDJ got going. Everyone'll be sampling Delia saying "forget about this, it's for interest only" at the start...
Just as interesting for me are her early recordings for "Blue Veils and Golden Sands", which demonstrate her working process. The demo includes some cut-ups of her voice which sound like nothing much, then replayed at different pitches, where the ghost of a tune appears, which is then put through some sort of reverb device for atmosphere, and then it's incorporated into the whole.
There's the usual speak-your-branes style comments from the Great British Public on the PM blog to wonder at as well ("No more music than fly in the air").
We want more.... (via Helen, ta)
