ROGER DOYLE - Oizzo No LP

This manifesto of outsider orchestrations, teenage symphonies and cultivated concrete is the debut album of experimental Irish avant garde and electro acoustic innovator Roger Doyle.

A pianist, composer and improvisational jazz drummer with a penchant for experimentation that would marginalise him from traditional seats of learning in his native homeland but embrace him to the bosom of Europe’s leading forward-thinking research centres for electronic and computer music. Here he would piece together two highly sought after experimental albums before returning home to channel his multi-disciplinary work ethic into the agit pop theatrical company Operating Theatre and play a leading role in the burgeoning Irish new wave scene as an early signing to U2’s Mother Records.

It's quite menacing, a lot of early electronic music is like this. This is the first electronic album by an Irish artist, a genre that the Irish media would have a stigma towards with them having a preference towards rock and folk. Because of this, Roger would not get the recognition he deserved until later in his life - he's like the Irish equivalent of Brian Eno or Ryuchi Sakamoto.