DD026

DD026 is the Initial Catalogue number of one of Delia's Attic Tapes for Singing Waters.

Mark Ayres' notes

Type: 10.5" reel, 1/4" tape,
Label: No label on box
Description: "Water Penny Studio"; "Speech". Various voice and vocal recordings and treatments. "It is raining womens' voices"

Louis Niebur's notes

DD026 – “water penny studio,” “speech”
Women’s voices, echoed and treated “listen to it rain while regret and distain...etc”
1:26 – Poem “It’s Raining” by Guillaume Apollinaire: “it is raining women’s voices as if they were dead, even in memory” Treatments of woman’s voice is processed with electronic tones.
2:49 – faster women’s voice with electronic tone treatmentDraft version of Delia Derbyshire track listings
4:04 –woman’s voice, untreated.
7:20 – descending singing women’s voices “It’s Raining” again, as at 2:49
at 15:00ish, Delia comments that the reader is “a bit posh”
24:00 – synth keyboard sounds begin, noodling. Sounds very modern. Ends 26:18

James Percival's notes

DD026 – “water penny studio,” “speech”
Women’s voices, echoed and treated “listen to it rain while regret and distain...etc”
1:26 – Poem“It’s Raining” by Guillaume Apollinaire: “it is raining women’s voices as if they were dead, even in memory” Treatments of woman’s voice is processed with electronic tones.
2:49 – faster women’s voice with electronic tone treatmentDraft version of Delia Derbyshire track listings
4:04 – woman’s voice, untreated.
7:20 – descending singing women’s voices “It’s Raining”
again, as at 2:49
at 15:00ish, Delia comments that the reader is “a bit posh”
24:00 – synth keyboard sounds begin, noodling. Sounds very modern. Ends 26:18