Operating Theatre – Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth / Rapid Eye Movements

Operating Theatre is an almost forgotten group of performers led by the Irish eccentric Roger Doyle. The All City sub-label Allchival released a compilation of the single albums »Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth« (1979) and »Rapid Eye Movements« (1981) this year. With his electro-acoustic experiments on »Oizzo No« (1975) and »Thalia« (1979), Roger Doyle had already gone a step further than most. On »Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth« he discovered sampling and drum machines, giving himself at least a five-year head start on music history. This is the first time a Fairlight CMI sampler was used in an Irish studio and is said to have attracted the interest of Bono Vox. You just learned something! »Rapid Eye Movements« delivers a little more of the musique concrétè madness we know from his earlier records, and not a jot worse.