"Blue Veils and Golden Sands" was recorded in 1967, along with The Delian M… Read Full Bio ↴"Blue Veils and Golden Sands" was recorded in 1967, along with The Delian Mode, whilst working on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Recorded in the mid '60s, this composition was mostly created using filtered oscillators to give the "shimmering heat haze" backdrop to film of Tuareg tribesmen weaving slowly across the screen of a documentary. Delia has since referred to the piece as including her "castrated oboe", but the only non-electronic source really recorded is her voice, cut up and re-pieced.
Blue Veils and Golden Sands
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Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO Ziwzih, Ziwzih, OO-OO-OO-OO Ziwzih, Ziwzih, OO-OO-OO-OO ...d…
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David Cummings
Delia was asked to make an atmospheric background sound (this was it) for a documentary about nomads hence Blue Vails and Golden Sands in the Sahara desert....what a masterpiece!.
KINDLE
What Really Gets me is that the Lessons she Taught are STILL Being Ignored today. These new Producers are given EVERYTHING to them on a Plate, & they STILL can't create Multi-Dynamics. Just a 1 Dynamic Brick Wall. Just full of Volume. Delia Invented Multi-Dynamics with "MONO!" And yet these new hot-shots can't create layers with 7.1 Channels? What a Joke! Delia, We know your Secrets. It's up to US to keep them out of the Hands of the Greedy Producers & Record Companies. WHO's with me?
Ethan Krause Beats
I apologize for the ignorance of producing/sampling music without the use of Delia's techniques and it's required lessons that everyone allegedly tends to ignore.
Name Less
Many will not listen, but i strongly suspect music masters (such as Mick Gordon) do and that is why their music can be good. after Watching Mick's GDC on changing the process to change the outcome i would've like to see his face when he did or will discover Delia's work and how she made it.
Imagine the amazing things he'd do just based upon few of her songs.
clearmenser
THE founding goddess of electronic music. The world is less without her.
zawzero
Rest in Peace. One of the groundbreaking influences for modern music.
Nick Dellow
Like the Doctor, she was light years ahead. A creative genius.
City Lights
She is the Doctor, waiting for her Tardis
horbrarian
It's the sound of depressed post war Britain imagining the mystery of the sands and a deeper connection with natural world. Pink Floyd later took the inspiration from this mode and made it their own. A very special person; if I could cal the shots in modern music awards, Delia would be in there. Imagination perfectly realised into sound.
BlackGrass
Man I just can't believe what Watkin Tudor Jones Jr. made me discover! The most avant-gardiste musician of her era Delia. Wow , I swear by the time I put her audio poetry called ''Sea'' 10 minutes ago, I was struck by an incredible amount of wierd emotions, really scary and mesmerizing at the same time. holy shit. I heard this previously in this life as a teenager in a car on the radio while tripping and it was traumatising for these voices gets in your head so much. This is awesome to know her now! Back then, I was sure the car radio was hunted and we couldn't turn it off because it was too intense to bare.