ROGER DOYLE Thalia 2xLP/1978 UK/Musique Concrete/Nurse With Wound/Roland Kayn

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ROGER DOYLE 'Thalia' Double LP (UK, Dead-Cert, Catalogue #VCR-013) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2019 Dead-Cert label special Double LP edition of Roger Doyle's 1978 Musique Concrete masterpiece Thalia (originally released in 1978 in Ireland on the CBS label.) Includes additional tracks on the second included LP: "Baby Grand" (for Piano for 4 hands) and "Solar Eyes" (electronic music.) For fans of the Nurse With Wound (and the United Dairies label), Roland Kayn, and other related artists in the late '70s Musique Concrete/Modern Composition/Electronic Music realms.

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

Arguably one of the most important experimental records to emerge from 20th century Ireland, Thalia, as featured on the Nurse With Wound list, is coveted for its inventive, unpredictable, near-psychedelic brilliance, yet has remained scarce due to major label politics, meaning listeners had to fork out a ton for a second hand copy. Now readily available on its intended format, the keening, breezy logic and abstract theatric dramaturgy of Roger Doyle's work on Thalia has been reshuffled to highlight its apparent surreality and frolicking apparitions. Combining his studious research and prep work at Utrecht Institute of Sonology (then home to Roland Kayn, Leo Küpper, Jaap Vink) and the studios of Finnish Radio (Yleisradio) Helsinki with a finely honed improvisational intuition at his home studio in Malahide, Dublin, the record yields a poetic diffusion of electro-acoustic phantasms meshed with politicized and unsettling field recordings, alongside a mad, experimental solo piano piece. The three-part title track is the biggest attraction on Thalia. Acting as a sort of shamanic extension of Gaelic bardic traditions, Doyle guides the listener through labyrinthine dimensions, vacillating tape FX with stark synth pulses, fragments of "Danny Boy", and the unsettling sound of a woman wailing or even keening (a lament for the dead) in only the first minutes, the piece spirals over two sides between obtuse electronics and jump-cuts to melancholy strums, airborne melody, and rabid dissonance with the natural quality of Ireland's ever-shifting interplay of sun, rain, and clouds. The relatively brief "Baby Grand" follows as a sort of playful solo piano palate cleanser for the LP's purest electronic piece "Solar Eyes", which surely recalls the iridescent expanses of Roland Kayn or Jaap Vink's cybernetic music as much as Coil's pHILM #1 as ELpH (1994). Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.   

- First vinyl reissue of Thalia, a pioneering and early piece of important experimental/avant-garde music from the enigmatic Roger Doyle, as featured on the Nurse With Wound list.
- Dug out by Sean Canty and Andy Votel's Dead-Cert label after a must-have reissue of Doyle's '75 debut Oizzo No on Cacophonic.
- Incredible, surrealist blends of vintage modular synths, field recordings, and original instrumentation.
- RIYL: Nurse With Wound, Roland Kayn, Chris Marker.
- Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.   

Tracks on this Double LP are as follows:

• A1 Thalia - Parts I & II (15:52)
• B1 Thalia - Part III (13:39)
• C1 Baby Grand (3:57)
• D1 Solar Eyes (12:26)

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