From Gardens Where We Feel Secure

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From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Studio album by Virginia Astley
Released	July 29 1983
Recorded	April 1982 - January 1983
Genre	Instrumental/Ambient
Length	37:45
Label	Happy Valley / Rough Trade Records
Producer	Virginia Astley/Russell Webb
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Virginia Astley chronology
From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (1983) Promise Nothing (1983)

From Gardens Where We Feel Secure is the title of the first Virginia Astley album issued on her own Happy Valley label and distributed by Rough Trade Records.

The album was released in July 1983 and peaked at number 4 in the UK Indie Chart. The album was trailed by a couple of its tracks A Summer Long Since Past and It's Too Hot to Sleep, which were included on the 12" of the earlier single Love's a lonely place to be.

The album is an instrumental collection of tone poems that describe the cycle and mirror the moods of an indolent summer day.^[1] The album began life as a series of demos produced by John Foxx at the Crépuscule studios, where he was working at the time. The album is notable for its structure, moving from dawn to dusk, and its use of sound effects. The album was re-mastered and re-released by Rough Trade as a CD in 2003.

The track "A Summer Long Since Past" was re-recorded and re-named "A Summer Long Since Passed" on Astley's 1986 LP "Hope in a Darkened Heart.

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1. "Morning: With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" - 5:43
2. "Morning: A Summer Long Since Past" - 4:36
3. "Morning: From Gardens Where We Feel Secure" - 3:59
4. "Morning: Hiding In The Ha-Ha" - 3:55
5. "Afternoon: Out On The Lawn I Lie In Bed" - 5:09
6. "Afternoon: Too Hot For Peacocks" - 2:29
7. "Afternoon: Summer Of Their Dreams" - 3:21
8. "Afternoon: When The Fields Were On Fire" - 3:25
9. "Afternoon: It's Too Hot To Sleep" - 5:18

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