D4PHNE 0RAM - PR1VATE DREAMS AND PUBLIC N1GHTMARES (2011)

Test subject number two--a response to Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"--comes in the form of this "reworked and reinterpreted" album built from the late Ms. Oram's vast archive of unreleased material. The pieces are both haunting and futuristic, a case study of internal, pensive gestures set against the more public sonic codes of electronica and soundtracks. The seams between ego and superego? The private/subjective in constant negotiation with the constraints of our external, civilizing forces? Maybe. Wicked album. 

Dream it...