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COMPILATION - RESONANT EMBERS CD

‘resonant embers’ is a compilation featuring Paul Bradley, Maile Colbert, irr. app. (ext.), jgrzinich, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter and Ubeboet who have all previously been released through our parent label Twenty Hertz.

Here we have seven artists presenting seven tracks of drones both stoically austere and upliftingly melodic, haunting melodies, beautifully evocative vocals, engaging field recordings and disorientating environments.

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PAUL BRADLEY - CONSUMED CDr/DVDr

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.

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Monos - Promotion

Promotion was the debut release from Monos originally issued in 2000 by Nil Records. Out of print and unavailable since it's initial release, Promotion is now issued on Twenty Hertz in a slim jewelcase with obi, postcard and photograph insert depicting the original artwork alongside the new designs.

Banks Bailey, Darren Tate, Ian Holloway -
Summerland

New collaborative work.

Edition of 150 copies Quiet World six / Fungal 30.

Steve Bates - The dim coast

The dim coast is steve bates first release, a diverse collection of sounds made with an eclectic array of recording materials.  The cd is printed in a limited edition of 1000 and comes as a digipack.

computer/guitar/contact mics/shortwave radio/baby monitors & intercom/snare drum/e bow/electromagnetic mic/field recordings/aluminum foil/cd player/loop pedal/knitting needle/IMED 0159/cassette recorder. Label description.

Maurizio Bianchi, Nobu Kasahara, Hitoshi Kojo - The epidemic symphony no.9

This recording has been progressed by mail exchange among three artists in Italy, Japan and Switzerland since winter in 2003 for two years. Their own works are strongly related with their each different religious outlook or philosophy. This work has been evolved from a theme which Maurizio Bianchi suggested. The dialogue was crystallized into the complex layered vast harmony. The art work on the cover jacket is their collaboration as well. Label description.

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 regardless of pal/ntsc formatting.

Double disc CDr/DVDr, initial pressing of 100 copies

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 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.

Paul Bradley - Màs Memorias Extranjeras

CD in card sleeve. Remix companion release to Memorias Extranjeras on Alluvial Recordings offering a very different rendering of the original.

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.

Paul Bradley - searching for the way

FINAL FEW COPIES

3 inch cdr 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 .

Paul Bradley - chroma

CD in jewelcase. 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.

Paul Bradley - Sketches from Dust
(special edition)

CD SPECIAL EDITION OF 200 IN HAND PAINTED WALLET
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.

Paul Bradley - Sketches from Dust
(standard edition)

CD STANDARD EDITION
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.

Paul Bradley - Liquid Sunset

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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.

Paul Bradley - Anamnesis

CDr

Standard Edition in full jewelcase with printed sleeves

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…

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.

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.

Eric La Casa & René Quinon -
Quelque chose de cela, le désert"

(production : Collection Mémoires, France)

Superb 20 minute collaboration in special oversized slip-case packaging.

Maile Colbert - moborosi

Maile Colbert’s ‘moborosi’ is a mini album totaling around 30 minutes in length. It takes elements from numerous genres and influences, mixing them together to form a remarkably individual and coherent whole.

In terms of style, ‘moborosi’ can be seen as a bit of a departure for Twenty Hertz. Sounds that caress and then disrupt, suck you in and spit you back out, this work slowly draws you into its world and leads you to the simply beautiful final track ‘Blinding begin again’.

jgrzinich - rudiment of two

Twenty Hertz sister label, edition sonoro's debut release. ‘rudiment of two’ contains three extended compositions based on an array of sound material recorded in 2006 in Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Japan and Finland. Acoustic sounds from various objects, materials, improvisations and field recordings were processed to varying degrees and woven together to form spatial interplay of delicate textures and tonalities.
The CD package was designed by the artist which features imagery from a unique series of his photographs and montages. Label description. Limited edition of 300 CDs

www.editionsonoro.com for more information.

Mnortham - Go

3 inch CD limited to 500 copies on the French label Ferns Recordings.

Excellent new work from mnortham.

Monos - Promotion

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Promotion was the debut release from Monos originally issued in 2000 by Nil Records. From this beginning Monos went on to produce a number of releases for labels such as Anomalous Records and Die Stadt gaining an extra member along the way in the shape of Colin Potter.

Out of print and unavailable since it's initial release, Promotion is now issued on Twenty Hertz in a slim jewelcase with obi, postcard and photograph insert depicting the original artwork alongside the new designs.

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.
The Monos Duo of Darren Tate and Colin Potter are joined by fellow computer based composer Paul Bradley for an electronic drone session that pushes hard against the boundaries of the form. Featuring a guest appearance by Robin Barnes, "Entering" begins soothingly enough, but soon the intensification of Mono's combined drone technique reaches a low level plane that steadily cruises towards condition red on the overload meter. "Surface Form" repeats the exercise, summoning up an almost ceremonial atmosphere in which the trio's elevating computer hum sounds not unlike the chanting of Tibetan monks deep in prayer. Both pieces are exceptionally well recorded and realised, together with a studios sense of how abstract sound can be turned into a dream weapon. Edwin Pouncey The Wire

Murmer - In their homes and in their heads

7 INCH VINYL SINGLE
"The man behind MURMER is the US-American field recording specialist PATRICK MCGINLEY (who lives in France now), who’s also responsible for the great 'Framework' radio programme on London’s RESONANCE 104.4FM. The two pieces on this "Drone" captivate the listener with intelligently assembled and multi-layered recordings of a garden in London (i.e. tree bark, water, footsteps, a creaking gate), processer and ventilation sounds of an old computer, and beads of a broken necklace. All sounds were left un-processed. Combined, they take you on a trip into an other world of low drones and high-pitched noises, crunching and gritting microsounds, surprising cut-ups, all very near and clear...

CLEAR VINYL, HAND-ASSEMBLED COVERS WITH PIECES OF A SCARF, SCRAPS OF A NOTEBOOK AND HAIR OF PATRICK MCGINLEY!" [press release]

Same postage as a CD

Seth Nehil - Amnemonic Site

Seth Nehil has composed sound works for CD,multi-speaker installation, solo and large-group concerts, dance, theater and multi-media performance.

Recordings include collaborations with jgrzinich and Olivia Block and solo works such as Tracing the Skins of Clouds (1998); From Cloud to Seed (1999); Uva (2000); and Umbra (2002), among others. He has performed throughout the US, in Europe and Japan. Seth Nehil is also co-editor and designer of FO A RM magazine, a journal of arts and research with a focus on sound art. Label description.

BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Drykkjuvisur Ohljodanna

In Scandinavia, it's not uncommon to hear of someone's mother, grandfather, uncle, or plumber who drank him-or-herself to death at an early age; and the Swedish drone artist BJ Nilsen has felt the alcoholic pangs which may foreshadow his own demise. In recent years, Nilsen has turned to his Icelandic neighbors Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson (collectively known as Stilluppsteypa) in existential sympathy over the problems of their collective lust for alcohol. Drykkjuvisur Ohljodanna marks the second collaborative document of abject minimalism that these three have composed; and like its predecessor Vikinga Brennivin, this album is spiked with drunken thought. Any alcohol induced euphoria has been tempered by perturbing blackouts, moments of cruelty, and an all-consuming nihilism. Beyond their shared Scandinavian heritage, their expressionist urge for the frigid drone, and their penchant for drink, BJ Nilsen and Stilluppsteypa intend this recording as an open ended experience, wandering through their sound without the burden of any exegetical text that may get in the way.

Drykkjuvisur Ohljodanna resolves itself as a grim kaleidoscope, where the bleakness of the wintry Scandinavian landscape and the langour of a drunken escapade constantly mutate through the highly refined sensibility of dronescaping. Sonar pings announce the beginning of this album, with its echoes returning as an amorphous fog and locating little but a gloomy pall upon the event horizon. Clattering electronics scurry across the barren sounds like death-watch beetles upon the tundra; and creaking doors offer something much more foreboding than what Pierre Henry envisioned for musique concrete. Drykkjuvisur Ohljodanna adheres to the psychological dis-quiet through sound design that Alan Splet provided for Eraserhead or that Nurse With Wound achieved on Salt Marie Celeste. Yet for all of their tendencies for brooding and desolation, BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa retain a compulsion for a glacial beauty through their intoxicated visions of the sublime.

BJ Nilsen has released numerous records for Touch and Ash International, both under his given name and as Hazard, often focusing the sound of nature, its effect on humans, and the perception of time & space as experienced through sound. He has also previously collaborated with Christian Fennesz and Chris Watson. Stilluppsteypa have unleashed well over a dozen releases in their tumultuous existence of electro-absurdism laced with subversion, blackhumour, and horror.

Drykkjuvisur Ohljodanna is a limited edition pressing of 1000 copies. Label description.

Noise-Maker's Fifes - Zona Incerta

10 inch LP

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.

Colin Potter & Paul Bradley - Live (Repress)

CDr
This is a repress in addition to the first edition of 200 that had a printed hand-finished and signed sleeve. This repress 'standard' edition has a normal printed sleeve that has not been hand finished or signed. The audio content of the two editions is identical. 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.

RLW - Contours Imaginaires

10 inch LP.
The whole composition is based on only few seconds of piano-sounds and vocals (the rest is "imagination") and the track-titles & pieces offer strong inter-relations in a complex way.
The used sounds develop through imagination & decay ("denaturing transformations") and appear in the pieces with different emphases. The "classical" piano-sounds and its highly processed permutations are set in contrast with the highly emotional voice-material, like entering a convoluted labyrinth of voice-frazzles, drones & fragmented strange sounds......
Being on a microlevel ("phantasized cell"), judging the decay of shadows. Are these the memories of single cells? The shadow of abrasion-processes? The slow decay of imaginations?
A fantastic work where conceptual thoughts and emotionally driven acoustics merge in a perfect way.

Spoonbender 1.1.1 -
Stereo telepathy academy

In 1913, Marcel Duchamp dropped three pieces of string, each a meter long, from a height equal to their length. He then cut shapes into pieces of wood in order to document the rumpled line of his three fallen strings. In essence, Duchamp conceived his 3 Standard Stoppages as a preservation of chance, which he viewed as a means to combat logical reality. In addition to Duchamp's self-proclaimed antipathy to the rational world, he was quite particular in how he contextualized and executed his ideas through readymade objects, chance operations, and his notorious psycho-sexually charged dioramas. It is this dualism between the chance operation and an absolute intellectual/technical control which brings us to the present age, and to Spoonbender 1.1.1 in particular. the acceptance and integration of opposites results in the 3rd option: everything. Label description.

Darren Tate - The elves are coming

CDr.

Along with one of his best titles this features some excellent artwork from Darren and comes in the ‘usual’ Twenty Hertz style in a jewelcase with printed inserts. What we hear however is a little harder to explain. Guitar and Organ improvisations mix with everyday environmental sounds and field recordings that were captured in Japan and contributed by Daisuke Suzuki. These two worlds collide to create a very intimate affair. Ominous paranoid undertones rattle the tranquillity of late night insects, the insanity of the day impeding on the faded light.

Troum - Dreaming Muzak

CDr.

Re-release of cassette from 1997 in oversized cardboard cover.

Two long soundtracks to your dreams

Troum - AIWS

"AIWS" is the first full TROUM-CD since many years. It covers studio-recordings done from 2002-2005. TROUM selected their favourite pieces through these years to be placed on this album, all analoguely recorded on 4- & 8-track machines.
Presented are 9 tracks leading the listener through basic feelings of yearning, melancholy, and transcension.
The most emotional and profound Troum-album ever. Dedicated to eternity.
The ingredients: Sufi-songs & old vinyl-crackles, acoustic & e-guitars, e-bow, e-bass, voice & whispering, accordeon & flute.
Stunning 6-panel digipack artwork by Alan Mc. Clelland

Troum - Objectlessness

"There is a big gap between “rational”, verbal language and the pre-symbolic language of our emotional and unconscious mind. Music is perceived partly with our conscious mind, who can analyze it and reflect on it. On another part, it is perceived by our unconsciousness, by our “primal consciousness” that lies “under” the rational mind.
The idea: Experimental music, especially that of a more droning character, can easier “get in touch” or be unconsciously connected with this primal state of mind. It is music that is linked with unconscious fantasies coming from a pre-verbal sphere of existence... the phase of life based on the dyadic interaction with the “primal object”, the mother.
At this early stage, there’s no awareness existing of being a full separated Subject, and no other full separated Objects can be perceived. Inner and outer reality is the same. Spheric, droning, dissolving music is pointing unconsciously at this “objectless” sphere of existence. This release is dedicated to the idea of an especially formed “pre-symbolic” music." [from the liner notes]

Ubeboet - spectra

CDr.

Spectra is a simply gorgeous work that begins with the aptly titled ‘Premia Lucis’ and sets the scene for a series of hazy, drifting tracks that seem to blow in on the breeze and evaporate again with languid ease. Snatches of melodies are weaved together amongst dreamlike drones that guide us to a brighter light, elevating us towards the promise of something greater.

An enlightened, wonderfully composed album that Twenty Hertz are proud to bring you.

Various Artists - Resonant Embers

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‘resonant embers’ is a compilation featuring Paul Bradley, Maile Colbert, irr. app. (ext.), jgrzinich, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter and Ubeboet who have all previously been released through our parent label Twenty Hertz.

Here we have seven artists presenting seven tracks of drones both stoically austere and upliftingly melodic, haunting melodies, beautifully evocative vocals, engaging field recordings and disorientating environments.

There are many things that link these artists together but it is their differences that are more interesting. There is a fundamental contrast in approach and execution with each channeling their creativity in differing ways from drones and soundscapes, through melodic instrumental pieces to environmental recordings and opera. The artists presented here have created individual works that display a unique voice and emotion, all the while creating a collectively involving work that is rewarded with repeated listens.

‘edition sonoro’ are very pleased and indeed darn right proud to be bringing these artists together on ‘resonant embers’ and hope that listeners will enjoy the unique and emotional journey they have created. label description

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