DD272

DD272 is the Initial Catalogue number of one of Delia's Attic Tapes containing backgrounds for The After Life and Ways of Seeing.

Mark Ayres' notes

Type: 10.5" reel, 1/4" tape
Label: Heavenly BG's (BH label)
Description: Amor Dei?

Louis Niebur's notes

DD272 – Heavenly (BH) –
Opens with slow moving progression, then knocking
Back to Amor Dei, ends with Blue Veils and Golden Sands

James Percival's notes

CDD/1/2/18 The After Life backgrounds
Backgrounds used in The After Life and Ways of Seeing
FORMER REFERENCE: DD272
DATE: 1964
CONTAINS: Inventions for radio: The After Life, Ways of Seeing
MEDIUM: 10.5" reel, ¼" tape
DURATION: 00:21:59
LABELS: [Reel label, Brian Hodgson's hand:] HEAVENLY BG/S
        [Reel reverse, Brian's hand:] FANFARES / HANDS OFF / 4, 5, 8, 9
NOTES: 4 bands of backgrounds used in Inventions for radio: The After Life, one based on synthesised inharmonic spectra, three on choral/vocal recordings. They are in order of their use in the Invention.
Interspersed are a treated recording of flamenco-type shoe rhythms and a choral texture used at the beginning of Ways of Seeing, Programme 2.
The reel ends with a crackly LP dub of Blue Veils and Golden Sands.