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Paul Bradley
Consumed
CONSUMED is an amalgam of drones and textures that entwine and wrap around themselves to create an environment of altered reality. CONSUMED shares similar traits with ‘Somatic’ (con-v 2007) where the origin of the sounds and the concept behind creating them is ultimately unimportant for the listener, who it is intended, will make their own judgments and create their own emotional responses.
The fundamental difference between CONSUMED and ‘Somatic’ is that here a visual counterpart is also presented. Like the audio the origins of the visuals are unimportant, representing the audio in only the most abstract of ways, complimenting it with it’s obscured, high contrast and saturated colours that slowly drift, blur and meld together.
The dvd is purposely authored without any menus or chapters, you simply put it in your machine and play. It is stereo sound, region free pal and should not pose a problem for any modern dvd players.
Format: CDR/DVDR in dvd case with insert.
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul Bradley
sirens
‘sirens’collects together the out of print releases ‘cede’ and ‘searching for the way’ along with the download release ‘horizon’.
‘cede’ was originally released as a 3 inch mini cdr on the German label Waterscape Records in an edition of 50. ‘searching for the way’ was issued through the UK label ‘The Locus Of’ in an edition of 100 3 inch cdr’s. ‘horizon’ is also available as a download from Twenty Hertz Digital.
‘sirens’ comes in a plastic sleeve with full colour 4 panel insert and the first 50 copies also include two photograph inserts (the ‘sirens’ and ‘searching for the way’ covers) and a numbered and signed obi. Tracks one and three were lightly re-touched in February 2008 at IC Studio.
Format: CDR in plastic sleeve. First 50 with two photograph inserts and an numbered and signed obi.
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul Bradley
Màs Memorias Extranjeras
On returning to Memorias Extranjeras (and to the Spanish City of Valencia) the foggy, dark somberness that punctuated the first CD had gone. A fundamental change had occurred in the twelve months between ‘Memorias Extranjeras’ and ‘Màs Memorias Extranjeras’ and there was a desire to reflect this and re-work the piece to match this clearer change in perspective.
The two releases are two sides of the same coin, one darker, more detached and the other, calmer and more open. Memories that had changed and warped, softened and melded together, the same experience revisited through different eyes.
Format: CD
Edition of 500 in the same card sleeve as Memorias Extranjeras.
Label: Alluvial Recordings
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Paul Bradley
Cede
Cede is a 20 min Dronepiece by the legendary Paul Bradley who is well known in the Drone Territory. Cede is following the tradition of Bradley's "Droneworks". This is a truly haunting and mesmerising Guitar Drone.
Format: 3" cdr. Limited edition of 50.
Label: Waterscape Records
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Paul Bradley
Somatic
Somatic is a mixture of sounds sourced from field recordings that were taken mostly in Spain and Turkey, Cello, Voice, other instruments and various manipulated objects; for example a large sheet of plastic glass. The resulting drones and textures are fused together to try and create an effective mix of abstracted phonography and more melodic instrumental movements.
Somatic means “of, relating to, or affecting the body; corporeal or physical”. I felt this title particularly suited the work due to its more tangible, telluric, or earthly quality. Recent releases such as ‘chroma’, have looked upwards and beyond the confines of our normal horizons, whereas Somatic mirrors and reinterprets more conventional surroundings.
Early working titles were based around the idea of being “without eyes” or “without image” and this original concept was carried through with the sleeve design. The focus is on the act of listening away from additional stimuli, leaving the listener to create their own unique interpretations.
Format: cdr. First edition of 100.
Label: con-v
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Paul Bradley
searching for the way
Strictly limited to 100 copies in full colour sleeve and label with insert. UK based Bradley presents a fantastic work of drones and textures for which he is renowned. (Label description)
Format: 3 inch cdr in plastic sleeve with printed inserts. Limited to 100.
Label: The Locus Of
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Paul Bradley
horizon
Closely related to ‘chroma’ in terms of execution and sound, ‘horizon’ is a radiant twenty minute track of processed guitar drones that wrap you in a warm blanket of sound and builds to an intense, breathless crescendo.
Format: Digital download
Label: Twenty Hertz Digital
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Paul Bradley
chroma
Split over seven tracks 'chroma' is a beautiful swarming forty five-minute suite of pieces. A warm, almost angelic hue of sound radiates from 'chroma' giving it a pure, optimistic feeling that only fades with the last dying notes. Weightless and saturated in it's waves of sound, all you have to do is listen.
Format: CD in Jewelcase
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul Bradley
Promotional cdr
Contains three untitled tracks and is approximately 20 minutes in total length. Comes on an all black disc in a plain black sleeve individually signed to the recipient in silver. Available free when your order 2 or more items from Twenty Hertz Retail.
Format: Limited cdr
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul Bradley
pastandpresentcollide
There is no escape, grainy snapshots constantly replaying in our heads, it is futile, our every action/reaction, decision, choice, it is who we are, it is what we will become. An endless loop in our minds, it is always with us.
Format: CD with textured card sleeve in wallet.
Label: Shining Day
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Paul Bradley
Sketches from Dust
Following on from ‘Memorias Extranjeras’ (Alluvial Recordings) with ‘Sketches from Dust’, we again have a less ‘typical’ Paul Bradley release.
For this CD, gone are the field recordings and over the forty minutes we hear a piece that is mainly constructed from Guitar and Piano (the latter being played by Maja Elliott of Current 93). The recording is augmented by various acoustic sounds and some precise mixing techniques to form an organic and possibly ‘looser’ feeling recording than we might be previously expecting. What we hear is an intimate yet murky, almost eroded sonic journey.
A primitive earlier outtake of ‘Sketches from Dust’ appeared on the limited ‘Notes from Past - Sketches from Dust’ CDr released earlier in 2006. This now fully realized work is released in two CD editions, one limited to 200 copies in hand painted card sleeve and a second unlimited edition with printed card insert in a plastic wallet.
Piano: Maja Elliott
Other instruments & mix: Paul
Bradley
Format: CD
Limited edition of 200 in hand painted card sleeve. Unlimited edition.
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul Bradley
Memorias Extranjeras
Más que un simple documental, 'Memorias Extranjeras' es un brumoso sueño de posibilidades. La excitación y el miedo de lo desconocido donde tardes empapadas de sol se desdibujan en noches que sangran hacia el interior de nuevos amaneceres que nunca cesan.
Label description: An unbelieveably great, new work from Paul Bradley, one of the new UK masters of drone music. With 'Memorias extranjeras', Paul works with very festive field recordings from Valencia, Spain. We hear the smooth, complex drone sounds which are his signature along with field recordings which he uses in ways which are perhaps not 'typical' of his work. The single 41 minute piece actually sounds like two separate but related pieces, each with its own mood. This work strikes a perfect balance between darkness and light, somberness and celebration. The music will satisfy the familiar while also introducing Paul's work to an entirely new fan base with its excellent use of rhythm and other elements which are best left heard rather than described.
Format: CD
Edition of 500 in card sleeve.
Label: Alluvial Recordings
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Paul Bradley
Notes from Past - Sketches from Dust
Very limited edition of fifty copies produced for Intergration 5 performance.
Format: CDR in trigger case
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul
Bradley
Liquid Sunset
Colour bursts on the horizon. The haze of light creates a dreamy, almost
unreal atmosphere. Everything slows to a stupor as the sun finally drops
from view, ever static yet ever evolving, to be reborn again in a few
short hours. CD encased in some delicious artwork.
Format: CD
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul
Bradley
Sophia Drifts
To throw your self out to sea, to ride the current on a whim. To watch the wreckage drift, to finally wash up on some foreign shore.
Format: CDR
Label: Limited to 100 copies on Mystery Sea. And in an unlimited edition with alternate artwork and bonus three inch CDR on Twenty Hertz
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Paul
Bradley
Anamnesis
A sultry haze… A shimmer of light… A moment… A place…
A memory… Forever suspended in time… To listen…To drift…
To remember… To
lose yourself…To dream…
Format: CDR. Unlimited standard edition in full jewelcase with printed sleeve and 100
limited special editions with extra disc.
Digital Download also available from Twenty Hertz Digital
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul
Bradley
Sepulchral
Minimal
guitar drones drifting past in an endless space. To
be listened to at low/medium volume and late at night, with the curtains
drawn and lights turned down.
Format: CDR in slim-line case with printed insert. Digital Download also available from Twenty Hertz Digital
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul
Bradley
immure
'This is a very nice little gem' Vital Weekly
Format: 3 inch CDR. 200
copies with printed sleeve in vinyl jacket. Digital Download also available from Twenty Hertz Digital
Label: The
Locus Of Assemblage
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Paul
Bradley
All that was
'Austere,
dark, sombre: music for grey days' Vital Weekly
Format: CDR. First edition of 50 black and white CDR's numbered
and in handmade sleeve. Second edition of 50 on standard CDR's in numbered handmade sleeve. Digital Download also available from Twenty Hertz Digital
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul
Bradley
Twenty Hertz
Debut release. 'It's
strongly recommended to everyone and one of the best ICR releases' Touching Extremes
Format: CDR 1st edition of 100 in handmade sleeve. 2nd edition with mono printed sleeve. 3rd edition with colour printed sleeve.
Label: ICR
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Paul
Bradley
Drone Works #1
Part of the Drone Works series of 20 minute Ep CDRs issued on Twenty Hertz. Now available as a free download.
Format: CDR with printed insert
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Paul
Bradley
Drone Works #6
Part of the Drone Works series of 20 minute Ep CDRs issued on Twenty Hertz. Now available as a free download.
Format: CDR with printed insert
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Paul Bradley & Cría Cuervos
Moraines II
Moraines II is a radical re-working of the limited cdr release Moraines. The original recordings have been augmented, re-worked and newely mixed into an entirely different piece of music. The final result is far heavier and more substantial work that creates a light and dark relationship with the original release and is much more than a simple ‘remix’of Moraines.
Andrew Liles also contributes a track that takes elements and unique contributions to twist the work into his own personal sound world.
Format: CD
Label: Small Voices
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Paul Bradley & Cría Cuervos
Moraines
British based Paul Bradley and Italian based Cría Cuervos (aka Eugenio Maggi) collaborate here to produce a work that like the title suggests, is heard to shift, crack and erode over time. Glacial drones melt to liquid and degrade to static leaving behind it the debris of our lives, the stones and boulders that weighed us down but where what made us strong, till, in the end we are all just dust.
Format: CDR. Edition of 150 copies with colour printed artwork and full colour disc print in a vinyl sleeve.
Label: A co-release between the artist’s respective labels Twenty Hertz and Sileat.
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David
Wells & Paul Bradley
Op.5 / Heart Of Embra
A single track from each artist based on the same source material that
was gathered on a day visiting tourist sites, walking around, drinking
and generally laughing in Edinburgh and what's more, not a bagpipe within
earshot. Thistle do nicely.
Format: 3 inch CDR An edition of 100 3 inch CDr's with printed inserts and signed discface.
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Paul
Bradley & Adam Sonderberg
anoxia
Collaboration, be it business, marriage or artistic, can, depending on
who you are, produce a freeing or stifling environment. On the occasions
that collaborations succeed in freeing the individual, the results produced
in these partnerships can approach the transcendent.
‘anoxia’ is the first co-production between
UK based, Paul Bradley (Monos, regular collaborator with Colin Potter)
and Adam Sonderberg (Dropp Ensemble, Civil War) from the US of A (that’s,
‘A’ for ‘almost’) and their respective labels,
Twenty Hertz and Longbox Recordings.
Material was recorded and mailed. The subsequent mixes
were listened to, talked about and methodically refined; and so here we
have ‘anoxia’: a long form drone work rooted in profound darkness;
birthed from the omnipresent hum of imminent demise.
Admittedly the last paragraph is pretty heavy-handed,
but how else can we convey what is on offer here? Drawing comparisons
between artists is commonplace in music criticism, so what can be said
about ‘anoxia’ without likening it to the work of Mirror,
Jonathan Coleclough or Francisco López? (oops!). Well, this is
one of those records that you’ll keep in your collection and turn
to in the intervening years as a failsafe when it comes to idiomatic drone
composition.
The first edition of our beloved recording is housed
in a slimline dvd case with striking hand screened cover art. This is
red hot.
Format: CD In slimline dvd case.
Label: A co-release between the artist’s respective labels Twenty Hertz and Longbox Recordings.
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Colin
Potter & Paul Bradley
Live
Recorded at two low-key performances on 21st October and 18th November
2004, in Colin and Paul’s hometown of Preston Lancashire, the tracks
presented here are considered by the artists themselves as being amongst
their very best live performances. For this reason they wanted to make
these recordings available to people who were unable to attend on the
night.
The sounds enclosed on the disc drift, rumble and rustle
past slowly drawing the listener in and then dropping them in the middle
of nowhere. What is then communicated is of course, only what the listener
is willing to hear.
Format: CDR. An edition of 200 with printed hand-finished and signed sleeve. Also a second 'standard' edition that has a normal printed sleeve that has not been hand finished or signed. The audio content of the two editions is identical.
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Darren
Tate & Paul Bradley
Sometime today
‘Sometime today’
is a collaboration between Darren Tate and Paul Bradley. In his own unique
and intimate way, Darren recorded the basic tracks at his home in York.
Including guitar, keyboard and various other techniques, these recordings
were passed onto Paul who took them with him, along with a laptop, on
a visit to Turkey. These original tracks were supplemented with various
field recordings taken around the town of Fethiye and the piece assembled
during this three-week visit. Voyeuristic, evocative, abstract and delicate,
you are invited to spend some time in their sonic world.
Format: CD in card sleeve
Label: Plinkity Plonk
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Monos
Landscapes
Colin Potter and Darren Tate are joined by guest member
for the day Paul Bradley for some serious musical ruminations. CD in carton
sleeve with artwork from Darren.
Format: CD in card wallet.
Label: F.I.T.
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Paul
Bradley & Colin Potter
Confluence
The first track is a 'best of' amalgam of live studio rehearsals
leading upto the performance for Intergration 2. This is a truly collaborative
piece that was captured at its very inception. The second and third tracks
are individual reworking's of the former where the original is turned
on its head, twisted and morphed into something all together different,
revealing only the smallest of hints as to its source to guide us home.
Format: CD. First 100 'Special Edition' copies come with an exclusive live CDR taken
from the Intergration 2 Performance on 02/03/04.
Label: Twenty Hertz
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Colin
Potter & Paul Bradley
Behind Your Very Eyes
A
collaboration between Colin Potter and Paul Bradley (another Preston-based
composer, who manipulates sound with his computer in a most un-computer
like way). Over 68 minutes the four tracks visit different soundscapes,
exploring organic and electronic sources, sometimes peaceful, sometimes
unsettling. Well worth a visit.
Format: CD in jewelcase.
Label: ICR
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Various Artists
Resonant Embers
Includes : Paul Bradley, Maile Colbert, irr. app. (ext.), jgrzinich, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter and Ubeboet.
Format: CD
Label: edition sonoro
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Various Artists
The Threshold of Silence
Includes : Thalia, Aidan Baker, Seconds in Formaldehyde, Propeller Island, Troum, Oophoi and Paul Bradley
Format: CDR In oversized sleeve with card insert.
Label: Umbra Records
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Various Artists
I, Mute Hummings
This collection of dense atmopsheres features a former member of Tangerine Dream and offers you the chance to listen to the world premiere of a long-lost thirty year old gem by an early synthesizer pioneer - as well as exclusive tracks by seven influential artists from the field of contemporary drone music.
“I, Mute Hummings” combines the Zen-inspired timelessness of Keith Berry, the circulating guitarspots of Fear Falls Burning, Dronæment's welfare mix of vinyl crackling with mumbling ether, Troum's excursions into human dreamscapes and on the other side Column One's fluttering and sawing machinery.
In between rest the well balanced works of Jeffrey Roden, Paul Bradley and Steve Jolliffe. Roden creates a whole aural landscape with his bass guitar alone. It's like walking through a drony barnyard. You can simply HEAR the fresh air. It all gets more and more closed with Paul Bradley's contribution. Like Berry's piece this one conjures up floating images - ceaseless waves of drones. Steve Jolliffe - who played on Tangerine Dream's 1978 output "Cyclone" - is an old stager of electronic music and here his wonderful flute-sketch sinks deeper and deeper into the hissing maelstrom of digital glitches. But manages to reach the saving shore where Richard Lainhart - a pioneer of Moog-music - closes this collection with an exclusive rework of his stunning "White Nights".
All featured titles are previously unreleased!
Format: CD in jewelcase.
Label: Ex Ovo
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Maja Elliott
1000 Water Craters on the Sea
EP by Maja Elliott which I contributed 'drones and soundscapes' and did some production work. Other contributors include Steven Stapleton and Aranos.
Format: CDR in digipak.
Label: Precordings
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Andrew Liles
In my fathers house are many mansions
Compiltaion disc where various artists rework Andrew's music. Includes mixes from Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, Irr. App (Ext), Nurse With Wound etc
Format: CD in Jewelcase.
Label: Fourth Dimension
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