Three years ago Andrea Parker launched her new Aperture imprint. And, the label’s mission statement was to explore conceptual and experimental electronics. After four highly regarded releases from Oberman Knocks and Cliffordandcalix (a collaboration between Warp artists Mira Calix and Mark Clifford of Seefeel) the label and Parker herself have now arrived at the very beginnings of experimental electronic music with this homage to one of the early pioneers of oscillators and abstract electronic soundscapes: the founder of BBC’s legendary Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram. Alongside partner Daz Quayle, Parker interprets Oram’s rich and murky explorations into the bleakest and most remote corner of sound and twists and turns into something even more forbidding and sinister. For ”Private Dreams And Public Nightmares“ Parker and Quayle could draw directly from Oram’s official archive, which gives the album an even bigger authority. The result is a compelling homage full of tension, depth and respect.

by artistxite