BBC Radiophonic Workshop (and others)
(Silva Screen Records SILCD1450)
4CD
OK,
an admittance right off the bat. These folks are my musical heroes so
I'm probably not going to be particularly critical here. I think the
people who made up the Workshop are amongst the most important figures
in electronic and experimental music particularly in the UK if not
worldwide and it must be said that a lot of that is down to the work
they did on one particular TV show.
To
celebrate the 50th anniversary Workshop archivist Mark Ayres has been
sifting and cleaning two and three quarter discs full of Radiophonic
Workshop Doctor Who cuts for each of the 7 Doctors that they were
affiliated with. There's special sounds and incidental music galore
from each of the main Workshoppers associated with the show and it's
absolutely glorious although during a concerted listen even I can find
myself getting a little sick of the various versions of the theme.
The last disc and a bit is taken up by six cuts from John Debney's orthodox
but not wholly awful soundtrack to the 8th Doctor's movie and then an
entire disc of Murray Gold's entirely not my cup of tea soundtracks for
Doctors 9, 10 & 11.
It's
the first lot that are of interest here though and they absolutely do
not disappoint. If the names Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, Tristram
Cary, Paddy Kingsland, Dick Mills, Roger Limb (and so many more) mean
anything to you then you are going to have a blast with this album. If
they don't then perhaps you need to rectify that frankly shameful state
of affairs and this'd be a hell of a good place to start.
(www.silvascreenmusic.com)
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