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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.

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 - 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 - 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 & 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.

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.

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

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.

Darren Tate - The elves are coming

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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.

Ubeboet - spectra

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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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