(Experimental Pop, Minimal, Ethereal) [LP] [24/48] Virginia Astley - Promise Nothing - 1983, FLAC (tracks)

Vinyl records:
CARTRIDGE: Audio-Technica AT-OC9ML/II
TURNTABLE: Technics SL-1200mk5
PHONO STAGE: Lehmann Audio Black Cube Statement
RECORD CLEANING MACHINE: Record Doctor V (vacuum RCM)
RECORD CLEANING LIQUID: Audio Intelligent Enzymatic Formula (3 min soak) then Super Cleaner (1.5 min soak) or Premium One-Step Formula no. 6 (6 min soak)
STYLUS CLEANING: Onzow Zerodust
Computer:
SOUND CARD: Apogee Duet 2 for Mac
SOUND MONITORING: InEar StageDiver SD-4 (Small)
RECORDING SOFTWARE: Adobe Audition CC
OS: Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks"
POST-PROCESSING SOFTWARE: iZotope RX 6 Declicker, Denoiser
Vinyl: iZotope DeClicker and Audition's built-in declicker plugin were used to eliminate clicks and pops. Manual declicking is used. iZotope DeNoiser was used to eliminate any low-frequency rumble (below 40 Hz)
Everything is normalized to -0.1 dB, as is without any compression applied.
Record condition: New/unplayed deadstock

'Promise Nothing' mostly combines material from her debut EP 'A Bao A Qu' and her debut album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.
This release was issued in Canada through Sire records.
'We Will Meet Them Again' featured words taken from a translation of Mahler's Songs On The Death Of Children. The melody for this song was also used by Virginia for the song Joy which features on the Richard Jobson album The Ballad Of Etiquette.
The melody for 'Angels Crying' was also used as incidental music on the track A Long Absence (Un Entetien Avec Marguerite Duras) from the Les Disques Du Crépuscule compilation album The Fruit Of The Original Sin.
'Love's A Lonely Place To Be' was released as a single in January 1983.
The version of' Soaring' featured here is different from the version that originally appeared on the B-side to 'Love's A Lonely Place To Be'.
'Futility' features words taken from the Wilfred Owen poem of the same name set to music composed by Virginia. This is a remixed version of the track which features on the Mighty Reel cassette compilation (4 lines of vocals have been mixed out to allow prominence for the oboe).
'A Summer Long Since Passed' had originally featured as the B-side to the 12" version of the single 'Love's A Lonely Place To Be' and subsequently appeared on Virginia's debut album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.

Virginia Astley - vocals, piano, flute, synthesizers
Jon Astley - vocals, guitar
Mark Brzezicki - drums
Tony Butler - bass
Simon Fryer - cello
Peter Hope-Evans - harmonica
Aminta Townshend, Emma Townshend - vocals
Russell Webb - guitars, bass, vocals
Jo Wells - soprano saxophone
Recorded at Olympic, Eel Pie and Crescent Studios in September 1981 - February 1983.