BIOGRAPHY :

Paul Bradley is a musician from the UK who creates tapestries of textural drones to redescribe the sonic landscape. Sounds are abstracted from life, reinterpreted and given a new context and along with instruments, most notably guitar, are disembodied and twisted into new soundworlds, transformed into rich, drifting, sonorous music. These "sensual strung-out vibrations" effectively marry digital with analogue and phonography with instrumental disciplines creating an organic abstraction of sound.

Artist statement: “What at first can appear to be minimalist environments, are in fact quite active and are often complex textural fields. There are themes that run through much of my work, however these are rarely made explicit as I like to think that there is something almost familiar yet un-nameable about my music, the essence of which would only be destroyed by over explanation and conceptualization. I strive for something more emotional, celestial and un-temporal, something that if reduced to the common denominator of language, would be lost.”

Releases have been issued on a number of labels, most notably ICR, Alluvial Recordings, Shining Day, Small Voices and also on his own label Twenty Hertz. Collaborations have also been plentiful working with contemporaries such as Colin Potter, Cria Cuervos, Darren Tate, Maile Colbert, Andrew Liles and also as a recent member of Monos.

Paul also runs the Twenty Hertz and edition sonoro labels issuing recordings from the likes of Ubeboet, Keith Berry, Irr. App. (ext.) and Jgrzinich.

LIVE PERFORMANCE:
Paul has performed both solo and in collaboration a number of times both abroad and at the Intergration events organised by himself & Colin Potter that included performers such as Keith Rowe, Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough and Scribble Seven aka Nurse With Wound. His work has also been shown in the USA.

DESIGN:
Paul designs many of the sleeves for his own releases and some of those by other artists who are published through Twenty Hertz. He also designs and maintains the associated label websites and icrdistribution.com. In addition to this, his layouts and photography have been seen on releases from ICR, Fungal Records and Die Stadt.

REVIEW QUOTES:

“(Liquid Sunset) is an absolutely beautiful piece. Let there be no mistake about it.”
Vital Weekly - Frans de Waard

“As if watching a highway glowing in the burning sun, the flickering heat radiated by these tracks turns into a sensation of its own, morphing and loosing its form…”
Tokafi - Tobias Fischer

“Perfectly paced and realized with a lot of afterthought and balance.”
Gaz-eta - Tom Sekowski

“...i am listening right now as i write
and it is once again
consistently and gently blowing my mind
so beautiful
and patient”
- Maile Colbert

TRANSLATIONS :

català

És un compositor del Regne Unit que captura gravacions de nombroses fonts i les transforma en música sonora. Explorant els diferents detalls d’aquests sons, la música resultant sovint és llunyana a la font original, però tot i així conserva certa essència natural i humana.

Ha grabat diversos discos, amb collaboradors com Maja Elliott (Current 93), Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Monos, Darren Tate i David Wells. També ha treballat amb les discogràfiques Plinkity Plonk, Alluvial Recordings i ICR, Paul runs 'Twenty Hertz'. A més, gestiona el segell d’edició sonora que arrancà el passat mes de gener.

castellano

Paul Bradley es un músico británico que crea tapices con testuras de vibraciones para describir el paisaje sonoro. Los sonidos se abstraen de la vida, son reinterpretados y se les otorga un nuevo contexto. Los instrumentos, sobre la guitarra, son decorporalizados, agitados y mezclados formando nuevos 'mundos sonoros' los cuales, juntos, se transforan en música rica, fludia y sonora. Estas 'vibraciones sensuales y nerviosas' ensamblan lo digital con lo analógico y a la fonografía con las disciplinas instrumentales creando una abstracción orgánica del sonido. El resultado final suele dar la impresión del tiempo fluido, cuyos límites simplemente están ahí para traspasarlos.

Ha Colaborado con multitud de artistas: contemporáneos como Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, Andrew Liles y también como miembro de Monos.

Bradley también trabaja para los sellos 'Twenty Hertz' y 'edition sonoro' publicando discos del tipo de Ubeboet, Keith Berry, Jgrzinich, Maile Colbert y Monos.

Rubén Garcia