hypersongs

From Gardens Where We Feel Secure

The title track, side one track three of her debut album.
Virginia Astley, from From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (1983)

Astley wrote it, and it is track three on side one at 3:59, recorded in the spring of 1982 at Barley Break in Moulsford with the album's field recordings. The title is a line from Auden's A Summer Night, as is "Out on the Lawn I Lie in Bed". She regards the album as impossible to reproduce live, because of its backwards guitar and piano, random elements and mixing done while recording, though "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" was played at some early concerts. In the 2003 CD reissue she notes a slight distortion at 2:56 on this track. Our upload carries the title shared with the album, so it may be the whole record; we cannot tell.

We found no chart history for the track, no video and no covers or samples. FOND/SOUND's Diego Olivas wrote few albums evoke memory, or nostalgia, so beautifully, of the album as a whole.

Sources

  1. From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Wikipedia
  2. Virginia Astley interview, Virginia Astley
  3. Virginia Astley, From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, FOND/SOUND (2016-10-24)