Orlam: A Musical Album

I wanted to avoid using a stereotypical folk sound, I wanted to avoid these natural sounds as being stereotypical nature noises. So we fed them through lots of very basic analogue gear which was manipulated by hand in real time. We were all in a room together, myself, John Parrish, Flood and Cecil. And then Flood very often would set up some sort of mic that he'd feed back into one of his really early synthesizers from when they were first built. They looked like a wooden dresser or a sideboard crossed with a telephone exchange. He would just sort of move different plugs in and out. This thing would come to life and start trying to generate a rhythm out of what John