WHITE NOISE - AN ELECTRIC STORM LP

WHITE NOISE - AN ELECTRIC STORM LP

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RELEASED ON 26.7.2024 ON PROPER RECORDS VIA PROPER

CATALOGUE NUMBER UMCLP092

Originally released on Island Records in June 1969, this re-issue faithfully

replicates the original UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl

A collaboration between David Vorhaus, Brian Hodgson and Delia

Derbyshire, White Noise: An Electric Storm is the very epitome of a cult

album.

Its capitalized rear sleeve message told prospective listeners all they needed to

know: MANY SOUNDS HAVE NEVER BEEN HEARD BY HUMANS: SOME SOUND

WAVES YOU DON'T HEAR BUT THEY REACH YOU. 'STORM TECHNIQUES'

COMBINE SINGERS, INSTRUMENTALISTS AND COMPLEX ELECTRONIC SOUND.

THE EMOTIONAL INTENSITY IS AT A MAXIMUM. Derbyshire and Hodgson

worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Vorhaus, a student at North London

Poly, attended a lecture by them and wanted to fuse his ideas with their

pioneering sound capabilities.

By blending electronics, tape loops and vocals with live percussion, future sounds

of the strange are embedded here Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream and avant garde

noise collagists Throbbing Gristle all owe a debt. The vocals, delivered by three

unknowns (Annie Bird, John Whitman, Val Shaw) are like untutored folk singers

offering lullabies to the unknown, against beds of cries of ecstasy and pain

distant thunder, car crashes and more.

While the first side offers moments of Beach Boy- harmony and lightish relief

(Here Comes The Fleas for example), Phase II of the album The Visitation and

The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell is a bleak, chilling and exhilarating

listen. White Noise: An Electric Storm was the sound of the underground, a

soundtrack to an unmade turn- of- the-70s horror film; a secret collection for

insiders that continues to unnerve well into the 21st century.


Tracks:

1. Love Without Sound

2. My Game Of Loving

3. Here Come The Fleas

4. Firebird

5. Your Hidden Dreams

6. The Visitation

7. The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell