Beau - "Gallery"

"Gallery" was written long before we learned to love biometric I/D, the DNA database, the ubiquitous CCTV etc. etc.

Back in the '70s, old Iron Curtain countries weren't exactly fun places for tourists; particularly with their almost paranoid levels of control and surveillance.

It was after visiting Russia and a couple of its satellites that I wrote "Gallery".

In those far-off times, high levels of Soviet control and surveillance were seen as definite indicators of philosophical and moral uncertainty.

Oddly, post-9/11, attitudes seem to have changed. Whilst for the Soviets they were always wrong, for us such controls now appear quite understandable.

'Course, it's easier to be understanding when your style of repression has the benefit of moral clarity...


("Gallery" is from the "Edge Of The Dark" sessions, an unreleased collection of over fifty experimental pieces recorded between 1978 and 1981.)

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Music

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• Folk
• John
• Peel
• Dandelion
• Beau
• Trevor
• Cherry
• Red
• Security
• Surveillance
• Repression
• Paranoia
• Bridget
• St
• Kevin
• Coyne

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