Voices Of Packaged Souls

"voices of packaged souls" was the first album recorded by suzanne ciani, originally pressed up as a private edition of just 50 copies and now available in this limited run of just 1000 housed in screenprinted silver foil sleeves faithful to the original pressing. this original limited gift / art-artifact is officially the rarest tangible recording of ciani's music who is now recognised in the press as 'the delia derbyshire of the atari generation" on account of her groundbreaking developments in the commercial evolution of synthesizer music as one of a small number of female composers in the field. inspired by her studies and meetings with electronic pioneers don buchla, john chowning and max matthews, 'voices of packaged souls' was created during the night shift at radio station kpfa where she had free run of the tape machines between midnight and 6am and presents an eerie array of altered vocals introducing ghostly, tape-manipulated radiophonics of a very personal and exploratory quality. for even the passing electronic music enthusiast, the early work of the bbc's delia derbyshire should instantly spring to mind, but it's the odd juxtapositions of intros such as 'sound an eye tearing' with a baby's ga-ga's, to the ecstatic noise on 'sound of a nose peeling' or the salaciously sensual coos, giggles and whispers of 'sound of a lighted window' which distinguish this work from that of her buttoned-up british counterpart.