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Andrew Liles has worked with many artists including Colin Potter, Bass Communion, Steven Stapleton, Darren Tate, The Hafler Trio, Karl Blake, Unsong, Band of Pain, Lord Bath, Sion Orgon, Andrew King, Nick Mott, Paul Bradley, Aaron Moore, Nigel Ayers, Irr. App (Ext), Jonathan Coleclough, Tony Wakeford, Frans De Waard, Freek Kinkelaar, Danielle Dax, Rose McDowall, Edward Ka-spel, vidnaObmana and Ruse.
The Wire
'...a compendium of forgotten folklore awaiting its future.'
All Music Guide
'Such wonderfully dreary music obviously isn't intended for the masses, but taken for what it is, Liles' work here continually startles you, both with its hushed subtlety and psychological effect.'
Beta-Lactam Ring Records
'One of the greats of electronic music today'
Brainwashed
'The art of the sound collage and drone music has a group of key members. Mirror, Christoph Heemann, Andrew Chalk, William Basinski, and perhaps just a few more are known and loved and create music that invokes images from other worlds; be those images frightening, sublime, or esoteric, it is impossible to deny their visceral impact. Andrew Liles has been added to that list of elusive and wonderful musicians...'
Side-Line
'Never our senses have been so shaken by this intelligent and out of time creation. Andrew Liles is certainly the last alchemist of experimental music.'
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Operative Records
Andrew Liles has been recording since the mid 80's. His music, which both eclectic and diverse is often minimalist, surrealistic, experimental and hypnotic, and attempts to transcend any noticeable style or clique. Andrew Liles has been described as "thoroughly chilling" with "incredible sonic depths of dark ambience." and by industrial.org as "foreboding and at times [a] truly unsettling aural examination, a Rorschact rain cloud streaming out blurred images and tangled memories"
Press Release For - An Un world – Infraction Records
Liles has taken many small portraits of the soundtrack for the underside of the world and has carefully meshed them with samples that are as theoretically unsettling as any of the authentic EVP recordings conducted by Friedrich Jurgensson. A deceptive lullaby of electronic tones, stereophonic acrobatics and drowned words; the samples continue, that of wind-blown rain against the window, voices down the hall, piano interludes, indiscernible conversations in muffled tones on the other end of the line and sine waves expanding in rooms otherwise acoustically dead. Liles carves his own distinct sound, but a natural comparison may hint towards the instrumental works of Coil, the Hafler Trio (particularly How to Reform Mankind), Eliane Radigue (Trilogie de la Mort) as well as the subtle influence of Bernard Parmegiani. A moribund and profoundly disquieting recording of sadness and beauty.
Press Release For - Love Song (1-11) – Macrophonies Organistaion
Liles' interest in erotica forms a singular vision for this extensive work. his influences range from high culture - hans bellmer, georges bataille, anais nin - through to fetishism and obsession - such as artists trevor brown, romain slocombe - onto the submissive and dominant scenarios created by the likes of eric stanton, john willie, and tomi ungerer. everything is here - the double entendres of dick emery and benny hill, the toilet humour of "carry-on" and the top shelf seediness of "readers wives" and "rubberist" musically the records are as diverse and complicated as anyone's fantasies or sexual proclivities. each song and each record is entirely different. complex twisting sounds suddenly disappear to give way to minimalist drones; moroccan medinas melt into manhattan moonlights. sensual voices metamorphose into mumbling perverts. The records are surreal and confusing, relaxing and subduing - both everything and nothing all at once. |