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	===[[Love Without Sound]]===		===[[Love Without Sound]]===
	(Derbyshire/Vorhaus)<BR>		(Derbyshire/Vorhaus)<BR>
	~~This~~ was the first song recorded by White Noise and the one that got them the Island deal. All strings are double-bass parts played by [[David Vorhaus]] sped up to sound like violins, cellos and violas ~~and [[John Whitman]] sings the main vocal~~<ref name=jayedelman>jayedelman's [http://www.oocities.org/jayedelman/whitenoise.html ''An Electronic Storm - The White Noise''] on geocities.com</ref> ~~with an electronic orgy by man and machine.~~		A romantic piece about making love without sound was the first song recorded by White Noise and the one that got them the Island deal. All strings are double-bass parts played by [[David Vorhaus]] sped up to sound like violins, cellos and violas.<ref name=jayedelman>jayedelman's [http://www.oocities.org/jayedelman/whitenoise.html ''An Electronic Storm - The White Noise''] on geocities.com</ref>
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Love Without Sound

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	===[[Love Without Sound]]===		===[[Love Without Sound]]===
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	it was the first song recorded by White Noise and the one that got them the Island deal. All strings are double-bass parts played by [[David Vorhaus]] sped up to sound like violins, cellos and violas and [[John Whitman]] sings the main vocal.<ref name=jayedelman>jayedelman's [http://www.oocities.org/jayedelman/whitenoise.html ''An Electronic Storm - The White Noise''] on geocities.com</ref>		This was the first song recorded by White Noise and the one that got them the Island deal. All strings are double-bass parts played by [[David Vorhaus]] sped up to sound like violins, cellos and violas and [[John Whitman]] sings the main vocal<ref name=jayedelman>jayedelman's [http://www.oocities.org/jayedelman/whitenoise.html ''An Electronic Storm - The White Noise''] on geocities.com</ref> with an electronic orgy by man and machine.
	{{Spectrogallery\|Love Without Sound}}		{{Spectrogallery\|Love Without Sound}}

Martinwguy: /* Track list */

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Track list

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	* '''S4''': [[Here come the Fleas]]		* '''S4''': [[Here come the Fleas]]
	* '''S5''': [[Your Hidden Dreams]]		* '''S5''': [[Your Hidden Dreams]]
			which is presumably the order in which the tracks were created.

	==Side 1: "PHASE IN"==		==Side 1: "PHASE IN"==

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Timeline

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	* September/October 1969:<ref name=DD141127/> The album is reviewed<ref name=DD141319/> in "Clanfolk", the BBC folk song club magazine.<ref name=DD141044/>		* September/October 1969:<ref name=DD141127/> The album is reviewed<ref name=DD141319/> in "Clanfolk", the BBC folk song club magazine.<ref name=DD141044/>
	* 27th September 1969:<ref name=DD154843/> An advert<ref name=DD154941/> and a scathing review<ref name=DD154918/> appear in "Time Out in London" magazine.		* 27th September 1969:<ref name=DD154843/> An advert<ref name=DD154941/> and a scathing review<ref name=DD154918/> appear in "Time Out in London" magazine.

	~~<BR CLEAR=ALL>~~

	=Track list=		=Track list=

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	<BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>
	[[Brian Hodgson]]: “[White Noise] was very advanced for its time but it never quite gelled for me. It was just not part of the stream of things that was going on at the time, it went off at a tangent, and it became a cult album. Pity it didn’t become one at the time! It was as if Island released it on the secret list.”<ref>[[Brian Hodgson]] interviewed for [[Breege Brennan's thesis]].</ref>		[[Brian Hodgson]]: “[White Noise] was very advanced for its time but it never quite gelled for me. It was just not part of the stream of things that was going on at the time, it went off at a tangent, and it became a cult album. Pity it didn’t become one at the time! It was as if Island released it on the secret list.”<ref>[[Brian Hodgson]] interviewed for [[Breege Brennan's thesis]].</ref>
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			“she told me 'firebird' and 'love without sound' pre-dated the rest of that stuff by a couple of years and that vorhaus was the one who did most the rest of it.”<ref name=pk>[[Pete Kember]], personal communication.</ref>
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	=Timeline=		=Timeline=
	~~<BLOCKQUOTE>~~
	“she told me 'firebird' and 'love without sound' pre-dated the rest of that stuff by a couple of years & that vorhaus was the one who did most the rest of it.”<ref name=pk>[[Pete Kember]], personal communication.</ref>
	~~</BLOCKQUOTE>~~
	* 15th February 1969: David Vorhaus writes to Miss Astrahan about the album cover art.<ref name=DD164714/>		* 15th February 1969: David Vorhaus writes to Miss Astrahan about the album cover art.<ref name=DD164714/>
	* 16th February 1969: Delia and David Vorhaus were “working each night flat out on our record”.<ref name=DD165533/>		* 16th February 1969: Delia and David Vorhaus were “working each night flat out on our record”.<ref name=DD165533/>

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	=Timeline=		=Timeline=
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	“she told me 'firebird' and 'love without sound' pre-dated the rest of that stuff by a couple of years & that vorhaus was the one who did most the rest of it.”<ref>[[Pete Kember]], personal communication.</ref>		“she told me 'firebird' and 'love without sound' pre-dated the rest of that stuff by a couple of years & that vorhaus was the one who did most the rest of it.”<ref name=pk>[[Pete Kember]], personal communication.</ref>
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	* 15th February 1969: David Vorhaus writes to Miss Astrahan about the album cover art.<ref name=DD164714/>		* 15th February 1969: David Vorhaus writes to Miss Astrahan about the album cover art.<ref name=DD164714/>

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	At [[Kaleidophon]] with [[David Vorhaus]], [[Brian Hodgson]] and others, Delia helped create the seminal album ''[[An Electric Storm]]''.		At [[Kaleidophon]] with [[David Vorhaus]], [[Brian Hodgson]] and others, Delia helped create the seminal album ''[[An Electric Storm]]''.

			=Quotes=

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	===[[Love Without Sound]]===		===[[Love Without Sound]]===
	~~Credited to~~ Derbyshire/Vorhaus, it was the first song recorded by White Noise and the one that got them the Island deal. All strings are double-bass parts played by [[David Vorhaus]] sped up to sound like violins, cellos and violas and [[John Whitman]] sings the main vocal.<ref name=jayedelman>jayedelman's [http://www.oocities.org/jayedelman/whitenoise.html ''An Electronic Storm - The White Noise''] on geocities.com</ref>		(Derbyshire/Vorhaus)<BR>
			it was the first song recorded by White Noise and the one that got them the Island deal. All strings are double-bass parts played by [[David Vorhaus]] sped up to sound like violins, cellos and violas and [[John Whitman]] sings the main vocal.<ref name=jayedelman>jayedelman's [http://www.oocities.org/jayedelman/whitenoise.html ''An Electronic Storm - The White Noise''] on geocities.com</ref>
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	===[[My Game of Loving]] (Duncan/Vorhaus)<BR>Lyrics were written by [[Georgina Duncan]], [[Annie Bird]] sings throughout, the track has an uncanny resemblence to American counterparts Donald Byrd and the Field Hippies and the United States of America. Vorhaus had to construct one 'electronic' orgy and after having lived with it for a bit, combined it with the recording of a real orgy. What a drag that must have been.<ref name=jayedelman/>		===[[My Game of Loving]]===
			(Duncan/Vorhaus)<BR>
			Lyrics were written by [[Georgina Duncan]], [[Annie Bird]] sings throughout, the track has an uncanny resemblence to American counterparts Donald Byrd and the Field Hippies and the United States of America. Vorhaus had to construct one 'electronic' orgy and after having lived with it for a bit, combined it with the recording of a real orgy. What a drag that must have been.<ref name=jayedelman/>
	{{Spectrogallery\|My Game of Loving}}		{{Spectrogallery\|My Game of Loving}}

	* [[Here come the Fleas]] (McDonald/Vorhaus)<BR>An obvious single choice, though never a single. Kenny Everett used the first percussive break, after verse one, as a jingle on his radio programme. Brian Hodgson plays the Carribean gentleman asking for the music to be turned down as he can't hear his own steel band. Very Island Records. Co-Written with [[John Renn-Mc-Donald]].<ref name=jayedelman/>		===[[Here come the Fleas]]===
			(McDonald/Vorhaus)<BR>
			An obvious single choice, though never a single. Kenny Everett used the first percussive break, after verse one, as a jingle on his radio programme. Brian Hodgson plays the Carribean gentleman asking for the music to be turned down as he can't hear his own steel band. Very Island Records. Co-Written with [[John Renn-Mc-Donald]].<ref name=jayedelman/>
	{{Spectrogallery\|Here come the Fleas}}		{{Spectrogallery\|Here come the Fleas}}

	* [[Firebird]] (Derbyshire/Vorhaus)<BR>The second song recorded by White Noise,<ref name=jayedelman/> actually an old song of Delia's<ref>I forget where I heard that - maybe from [[James Percival]] or in [[James Percival's thesis\|his thesis]].</ref> orchestrated to a cornucopia of tape-twiddling sound effects.		===[[Firebird]]===
			(Derbyshire/Vorhaus)<BR>
			The second song recorded by White Noise,<ref name=jayedelman/> actually an old song of Delia's<ref>I forget where I heard that - maybe from [[James Percival]] or in [[James Percival's thesis\|his thesis]].</ref> orchestrated to a cornucopia of tape-twiddling sound effects.
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	* [[Your Hidden Dreams]] (McDonald/Vorhaus)<BR>A trippy ode to LSD.		===[[Your Hidden Dreams]]===
			(McDonald/Vorhaus)<BR>
			A trippy ode to LSD.
	{{Spectrogallery\|Your Hidden Dreams}}		{{Spectrogallery\|Your Hidden Dreams}}

	==Side 2: "PHASE-OUT"==		==Side 2: "PHASE-OUT"==

	* [[The Visitation]] (McDonald/Vorhaus)<BR>Light out, headphones on -- a trip on a motorcycle to see a girlfriend ends in a fatal accident. In true 'Truly Madly Deeply' fashion he visits his beau but only for 'such a hopeless moment'. This took 3 months to record, was co-written by [[John Renn-McDonald]] and became idolised as the heaviest trip on the album. A triumph of sound and splicing tape.<ref name=jayedelman/>		===[[The Visitation]]===
			(McDonald/Vorhaus)<BR>
			Light out, headphones on -- a trip on a motorcycle to see a girlfriend ends in a fatal accident. In true 'Truly Madly Deeply' fashion he visits his beau but only for 'such a hopeless moment'. This took 3 months to record, was co-written by [[John Renn-McDonald]] and became idolised as the heaviest trip on the album. A triumph of sound and splicing tape.<ref name=jayedelman/>
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	* [[The Black Mass]]: Electric Storm in Hell (White Noise)<BR>Island Records are on the 'phone demanding a finished album and you've seven minutes of tape left and only one day to fill it, what would you do? Answer: the group-jam in a live performance. This was admittedly inspired by Pink Floyd's 'Saucerful of Secrets' with ex-dentist [[Paul Lytton]] on drum. [[Georgina Duncan]] wrote the lyrics at the beginning of the track.<BR>		===[[The Black Mass]]: Electric Storm in Hell===
			(White Noise)<BR>
			Island Records are on the 'phone demanding a finished album and you've seven minutes of tape left and only one day to fill it, what would you do? Answer: the group-jam in a live performance. This was admittedly inspired by Pink Floyd's 'Saucerful of Secrets' with ex-dentist [[Paul Lytton]] on drum. [[Georgina Duncan]] wrote the lyrics at the beginning of the track.<BR>
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