From: Dublin?
Active: 1970s onwards
Style: Experimental/Avant Garde
Bio:
Experimental/avant garde artist who released a pioneering solo LP in 1975.
Before that he'd played with R&B band The Unkind from Malahide in the mid/late 1960s,
experimental jazz rock outfit Jazz Therapy at the turn of the decade,
and Supply, Demand And Curve (joined summer 1972) in the '70s.
He also recorded as Operating Theatre and
played with Princess Tinymeat.
This discography is most likely out of date. Please check Roger's own site
for up to date information.
Discography
• Oizzo No
LP - self-released/Thrust - THR 03 - IRL - 1975 - 500 copies
Notes:
This album was originally scheduled for released on the small Irish Thrust label in 1973.
500 covers were printed but the label went bust before the release was completed.
Two years later, Doyle decided to release a revised version of the LP himself and
had 500 new back covers printed which he glued over the old cover. Many of these fell
off, which is why there is sometimes confusion over the release date of the
debut - 1973 or 1975.
• Oizzo No (expanded edition)
CD - Dom Bartwuchs/Artware - DOM BW 03/ARTWARE 05 - Germany - 1992 - 700 copies
First CD reissue.
• Oizzo No / Thalia
CD - Silverdoor - SIDO 012 - 2002
Remastered edition including the second album Thalia.
• various artists - 7 ... With Love EP
7" - Peace Party Records - JCA1 - 1976 - PS
See Compilations section for full track listing.
tracks: Bitter Sweet Suite (from "Oizzo No")
• Thalia
LP - CBS Classics - 61813 - IRL - 1978
Thalia was included in the Silverdoor CD reissue of Oizzo No (see above).
Notes:
Rarer than the self-released debut. Reputedly less than 200 copies
were sold before CBS deleted it. It has become impossible to find.
A copy appeared on ebay housed in what the seller described as "the collage
cover". There was never a collage cover, Roger Doyle has never heard of this, so
it's either a bootleg edition or (more likely) a homemade cover for a sleeveless
copy. If you are the person who purchased this copy, please get in touch.
• Thalia / Charlotte Corday
CD - Dom Bartwuchs/Artware - DOM BW 04/ARTWARE 06 - Germany - 1992 - 700 copies
First CD reissue.
• Budawanny
K7 - Helmer Music - ??? - IRL - 1987
LP - Atlantean - ATL001 - IRL - 1990
CD - Silverdoor? - ??? - 2002 - with bonus material
side one:
Opening Music
Priest on Motorbike
Job of Housekeeper
Inspecting the House
Storm
side two:
The Fight/The Vigil
Morning Sickness
The Boat Race
The Dance
The Parting
Ecce
Budawanny
Atlantean
• The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden
K7 - Contemporaty Music Centre - CMC-001-4 - IRL - 1988
K7 - Operating Theatre Tapes - OTT-461 - IRL - 1989
side one:
Curtain Music
Opening Music
What Good Will Marriage Do Me?
Ah Love Ah Love
Preparations For The Wedding Night
Wedding Night Music
Comings Goings
Perlimplin Dreams
side two:
Curtain Music
Love, Love That Here Lies Wounded
Again I Have Failed To See Him
He Writes Me A Letter
Don Perlimplin Has No Honour
The Garden
Upon The Banks Of The River
Perlimplin Dies
Notes:
Roger Doyle (Fairlight) with Elena Lopez (voice) and Frank Dunne (voice).
Recorded at STS, Dublin.
• Light Years
K7 - Operating Theatre Tapes - OTT-462 - IRL - 1989
'An Hour of Light Miniatures from the years 1983-88'.
side one:
Sideways And Pinkways
Trapeze In Full-moon Nights (Four Acts For An Imaginary Circus)
Physical Missing
Clear The Drains
Chinja Minatures
side two:
Seresa 1
Quiet Slipper Year (Dedicated To Olwen Fouere)
Pilar
Seresa 2 And 3
Say Yes To The Nice Lady
Ordained For Grave Dancing
Come Down Off That Ceiling
Notes:
An hour of 'light minatures' composed on the Fairlight CMI between 1983 and 1988.
With Voice/Lyrics by Lucy Vigne-Welsh (A3, A4, B5, B7) and Elena Lopez (B3).
The tracklisting on the inlay card is incorrect. An insert lists the correct titles and sequence.
• various artists - Distant Relations
CD - ??? - 1996 - CD with exhibition catalogue
track: Under the Green Time (1995)
• various artists - Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume Two
CD - CMC CD02 - 1997
track: Under the Green Time (excerpt)(1995)
• various artists - Cultures Electroniques 10
CD - Bourges - 1998
track: Spirit Levels I-IV (1993-97)
• Babel Vol.1
CD - Silverdoor - SIDO 001 - IRL - 1999?
Extract from the 5xCD box
• Babel
5xCD - Silverdoor - SIDO 003-007 - IRL - 1999
• Salome
CD - Gate - 001CD - 2000
Music for the Gate Theatre (Dublin) production of Salome by Oscar Wilde in 198?.
Composed and performed by Roger Doyle.
Introduction Medley
Opening
Salome's Entrance
Seduction Of The Guard
Temptation Of John The Baptist
Death Of The Young Syrian
Rejection Of Salome
Herod's Entrance
Herod's Descent Into Madness
Salome's Dance
Herod Offers Salome Riches
Execution Of John The Baptist
Salome's Lament
• Fairlight Memories
2xCD - Silverdoor - SIDO 008-009 - 2000
• Nederlands Blazers Ensemble - Under the Green Time
CD - Nederlands Blazers Ensemble - NBECD001 - NL - 2000
• various artists - By the New Time
CD - Silverdoor - SIDO 010CD - 2001
track: The Idea and it's Shadow (2000-01)
• Charlotte Corday / Passades - Volume 1
CD - BVHaast/His Master's Noise - Volume 2 - NL - 2004
• Passades - Volume 2
CD - BV Haast/His Master's Noise - Volume 3 - NL - 2005
• Baby Grand
CD - BV Haast - 2006
• The Ninth Set
CD - Die Stadt - DS 103 - Germany - 2007
• Cool Steel Army
CD - Psychonavigation - PSY 028 - IRL - 2009
Help!
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information about this band, have scans, photos or any other memorabilia we can
use, or spare copies of any releases,
then please get in touch.
See Also:
Jazz Therapy,
Operating Theatre,
Princess Tinymeat,
Supply, Demand And Curve,
External Links:
Official Roger Doyle Website
