Alive and Wide Awake in 6 Part

Low-budget-packaged concept CD. You’re asked by Neil Morgan (Mr. Warm Fields?) to look at the photo on the cover (which I’ve kindly not covered) as you listen. It’s a pastoral (literally) and relatively low-tech scene. The music is only slightly higher tech and gets progressively more chopped-up as the piece progresses. Nice, within its limited ambitions.

1. Piano, tape effects, thin vocals repeating title of CD
2. Wind-in-the-microphone noises followed by tape-mangled version of theme
3. Just a dubby backward-tape accompaniment and snippets of wordless vocals
4. Vocals starting to be deconstructed
5. Chopped up backward-running vox
6. Beauty-out-of-oddity backward melody