Paula P-Orridge

P-Orridge's musical career began in 1979 when she met musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge while working at a Tesco supermarket in Hackney, East London.^[1]

Prior to meeting Genesis she had had some connection to the Industrial Records music scene and had performed onstage with band 23 Skidoo. Genesis was a member of the band Throbbing Gristle. Prior to Throbbing Gristle's last show, Paula married Genesis in Tijuana, Mexico;^[2] they had two daughters.^[3]

1980s

Paula joined Genesis' band Psychic TV in 1983, playing drums^[4] and creating sound collages. She ran the mail order section of Temple Records and sometimes acted as Psychic TV's tour manager and record company liaison.^[1]

1990s

In the early 1990s, Paula and Genesis left the United Kingdom to live in Nepal and the United States in a self-imposed exile,^[5]^[6] during which the couple divorced.

In 1995 while in the United States, Paula released a solo ambient music and spoken word album, Sacred Dreams,^[7] on the San Francisco-based record label, Silent Records. Sacred Dreams differed significantly from her previous work and she released the album under her new name of Alaura O'Dell.^[8]

The Sacred Dreams album was recorded in December 1994 in collaboration with Justin Beck, a Californian electronica artist. The album was also the debut of P-Orridge's new interest in spirituality and new-age mysticism.^[9] Sacred Dreams has been re-released on Sanctioned Records^[10] as an mp3.

To complement her interest in New Age Goddess worship,^[11] in 1996 Paula P-Orridge/ Alaura O'Dell established an independent, niche travel company, Sacred Journeys for Womyn. The company offers educational, experiential and healing tours exclusively to women, visiting sites of significance revered for a tradition of Goddess worship.^[12]

Career

1980s

1990s

Discography

Song

Albums

References

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