From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
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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 the summer of 1983 and peaked at number 4 in the UK indie charts. 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 of one day in an English summer. 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.
