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Artist
Paul Bradley
12+ albums
droneambientdrone ambientelectronicexperimental
about
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. The final result often gives the impression of time being fluid, whose boundaries are simply there to transcend. Artist statement: “What at first can appear to be minimalist environments, are in fact quite active and are often complex textural fields. Recent solo work has been more optimistic than earlier isolationist references but there are still common themes that run through much of my work, these themes however are rarely made explicit. 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 a
