Roger Doyle Oizzo No

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.
A collection of some of Doyle’s earliest works as an indomitable scholarship
student of composition at the Royal Irish Academy Of Music in Dublin and then as
founding member and drummer of experimental jazz rock outfit Jazz Therapy (who
would later become Supply Demand & Curve), this patchwork 1975 debut longplayer
draws from what was an already bulging portfolio that included academic
assignments, living room compositions and soundtrack collaborations with Irish
filmmakers.
Originally part-recorded and subsequently aborted when the would-be label
vanished without trace overnight, Oizzo No was shelved indefinitely until a
scholarship at the prestigious Institute Of Sonology at the University Of Utrecht in
Holland afforded Doyle not only the opportunity to partially revise his humble opus
in their state of the art studios (as well as those of the EMS Studios in Stockholm)
but also the money to press a limited run of 500 copies and help further cement
the foundations of his future status as one of Ireland’s leading and most versatile
contemporary composers.