{"title":"Roger Doyle","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"babel-7","title":"Babel","description":"\u003cp\u003eReturning to the well of Roger Doyle once again, his “Babel” project spans a decade of composition work before its’ initial release in 1999 as a 5CD set. Over 100 pieces and almost 50 collaborators it marks a journey through a virtual tower of Babel with each piece corresponding to a room within an imagined giant tower city. For the 25th Anniversary vinyl edition Doyle has revisited it- remastering it and providing its first vinyl edit - 80 minutes spread across two 180gm LP’s - rounding out the package with extended liner notes and a download code to the full 6 hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe’ve previously explored Roger’s Operating Theatre days and the idea for this project came in the early nineteen eighties while Doyle was heavily involved with the experimental theatre group. Working with emerging technologies and across a variety of genres he realised that he would be unlikely to achieve an overarching compositional style. Instead deciding to make a virtue out of the fact that he composed so schizophrenically, he wished to create a musical alphabet out of short abstract sounds with these sounds being analogous to phonemes in speech. With Blade Runner and sci-fi embedded in the zeitgeist of the times he came to the idea of the Tower of Babel as both a futuristic skyscraper and also an embodiment of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1990 Babel was finally begun and kept growing until it reached over 6 hours of music and was released in 1999.A large-scale musical structure making use of many technologies and music languages, with each piece of music being thought of as a 'room' or place within an enormous tower city. Each track in the main section corresponds to a virtual sonic architecture. The pieces are divided into two kinds: aural representations of actual spaces like The Dressing Room, The Stairwell and Mr. Brady's Room alongside internalised dream spaces like the Room Of Rhetoric, the Spirit Levels and the Mansard childhood memory room. Listeners can navigate their way differently through this virtual building at each hearing. As a supplement to the Babel Tower KBBL - the fictitious radio station – broadcasts a number of shows. Each has its own style and atmosphere. Collaborating with DJs, actors, writers and singers, KBBL is made to sound like a real radio station with ads, traffic reports and phone-ins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamples of the connections within the project can be found via the architecture were the saxophonist in the off-stage dressing room is rehearsing for her solo in the concert-hall (heard in Pagoda Charm) or the room off the stairwell, where the sounds of piano lessons and apartment life can be heard and the apartment where a muffled KBBL can be overheard At a molecular level The Iron Language Alphabet is a sound alphabet containing tiny fragments of sound representing letters or characters of an alien alphabet. This sound alphabet can be heard scattered through other pieces like The Room of Rhetoric, Pagoda Charm and in KBBL in Johnny’s Body at 002. Other molecular scatterings can be found in Cantilena where two songs sung by Operating Theatre’s Elena Lopez in KBBL are exploded and re-arranged to form new entities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoyle’s Babel celebrates language - a slight variation on the Biblical morality tale - and musical expression in all its variety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allchival","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50434035122507,"sku":"2180263","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/acrdlpx1front_c437bdb9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726885224"},{"product_id":"oizzo-no","title":"Oizzo No","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis manifesto of outsider orchestrations, teenage symphonies and cultivated concrete is the debut album of experimental Irish avant garde and electro acoustic innovator Roger Doyle. A pianist, composer and improvisational jazz drummer with a penchant for experimentation that would marginalise him from traditional seats of learning in his native homeland but embrace him to the bosom of Europe’s leading forward-thinking research centres for electronic and computer music. Here he would piece together two highly sought after experimental albums before returning home to channel his multi-disciplinary work ethic into the agit pop theatrical company Operating Theatre and play a leading role in the burgeoning Irish new wave scene as an early signing to U2’s Mother Records. A collection of some of Doyle’s earliest works as an indomitable scholarship student of composition at the Royal Irish Academy Of Music in Dublin and then as founding member and drummer of experimental jazz rock outfit Jazz Therapy (who would later become Supply Demand and Curve), this patchwork 1975 debut long-player draws from what was an already bulging portfolio that included academic assignments, living room compositions and soundtrack collaborations with Irish filmmakers. Originally part-recorded and subsequently aborted when the would-be label vanished without trace overnight, \u003ci\u003eOizzo No\u003c\/i\u003e was shelved indefinitely until a scholarship at the prestigious Institute Of Sonology at the University Of Utrecht in Holland afforded Doyle not only the opportunity to partially revise his humble opus in their state of the art studios (as well as those of the EMS Studios in Stockholm) but also the money to press a limited run of 500 copies and help further cement the foundations of his future status as one of Ireland’s leading and most versatile contemporary composers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cacophonic","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50498019459403,"sku":"1049163","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a8d9cbb7-275c-4763-994b-2721fd3ea503_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727736906"},{"product_id":"we-who-live-under-heaven-yh","title":"We Who Live Under Heaven","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoger Doyle’s new album will be released on Nyahh Records on the 13th March, entitled 'We Who Live Under Heaven’ - it is a phrase from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Through software transformations, the music freezes and in some cases fossilises some mostly old recordings. The text for the track 'The Clouds Are Not Inaccessible' is from a letter written by James Joyce's daughter Lucia in the 1930's to her psychiatrist. Spoken by Mary Costelloe. The album consists of 8 immersive ambient tracks played solo by Roger on keyboards in his home studio in Co Wicklow, Ireland. Roger Doyle’s 50 year career started in 1975 with the release of his debut album ‘Ozzio No’, a collection of Musique Concrete and audio cut ups. To date he has over 30 releases ranging from compositional work, sound art, soundtracks and opera. An early pioneer of electronica, he has often been named ‘The Godfather of Irish Electronica’. His New Wave\/performance group Operating Theatre started up in the 80s and has enjoyed a resurgence with reissues with the pop artist Caroline Polacheck recently covering their song Spring is coming with a Strawberry in the Mouth. Operating Theatre’s album, Rapid Eye Movement was released by Steve Stapelton’s United Daires label in 1980. In recent years Doyle has been reappraised by a younger generation of Irish based sound artists and composers. Much of his works is still in press and has enjoyed multiple re-issues. ‘We Who Live Under Heaven’ is his most recent collection of recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nyahh Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51293316350283,"sku":"R4548-2113","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/rogerdoylesleeveimage.jpg?v=1739900690"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/roger-doyle.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}