Ora

condition (disc/cover): NM / NM

Edition of 100 copies with hand-numbered (31) cover in original plastic bag and with stamped innersleeve.

Another in the long private run of Ora objects, this one on Darren Tate's Gnome Records imprint (also catalogued by a number of Tate's solo Monos releases). Radio Daze carries the Ora sound-signature into a more overtly shortwave-coloured register: radio captures bled into the bowed metal and electronic bed, a found-noise palette that connects the project to the wider lineage of European drone work around Colin Potter and Jonathan Coleclough.

Released in the characteristic Ora way: a small CDr edition, hand-assembled sleeves, circulated through mail-order and word of mouth. No distribution beyond the core collector network, no reviews beyond the handful of Brainwashed and related sites that tracked the project.

The appeal of this phase of the Ora catalogue is exactly its scarcity and privacy. Unlike most industrial-adjacent projects of the late Nineties, the group never courted reissue or wider circulation until the ICR retrospectives. Radio Daze is a direct artifact of that refusal, intended to be found and held by the people who specifically sought it. An object more than a product.