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SOLO DISCOGRAPHY :
	Paul Bradley Live Strictly limited edition of only 50 copies containing two solo live performances recorded one month apart in January and February 2010 at Octubre Centre of Contemporary Culture in Valencia, Spain. Solo guitar and the brief appearance of a stylophone make up these two tracks of live drones, loops and textures that were created in realtime with no pre-recorded elements. Thanks to Rubén García for organizing the concerts. Format: CDR in jewelcase. Label: Twenty Hertz
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
COLLABORTIVE DISCOGRAPHY :
	Monos Above The Sky Part One : Back in March 2006 Monos performed their one and only live show, comprised on the day of Darren Tate, Colin Potter and Paul Bradley. The show is recorded on a handheld recorder placed somewhere within the audience by Darius Akashic. Sometime later (probably 2007 no one can remember exactly) the material captured on that recording is revisited in the studio where the track (A Place Of Voices) is recreated over a couple of afternoons and many cups of tea. After that, not much happens. Part Two : Cut to several months (possibly over a year) later and the recordings are revisited again. This time rather than recreating the material in the studio the original live recordings are used and supplemented with some extra new studio material to create a second track (Cloudless Day). This second track is far more abrasive, abrupt and low-fi than the first and the two pieces stand together in interesting contrast to each other. The familiar and unfamiliar, the context changed, the final result very different, yet at the same time completely natural and cohesive. Then again, not much happens for a time. Part Three : Skip to sometime late 2008. The two tracks are revisited again along with a third piece that was discovered from a period prior to the performance in 2006 that seems to lay some of the foundations for what was presented live. Originally consisting of raw synthesizer and guitar recordings that were later remixed, effected, spat back out and complimented with other sounds and existing recordings and mixed in the studio to create what was later to be called Rivers (from the bonus disc). A few adjustments are made to A Place Of Voices and the three tracks are prepared for a final release. In early 2009, it is decided to create a fourth track to complete the project and Perhaps (from the bonus disc) is born. The project is now nearly finished and along with some financial assistance from the ultimately very patient Marek Nawrot, almost ready for pressing. Then again, nothing much happens as the project is delayed due to some personal upheavals. It is not until late 2009 that the artwork is finally completed with the help of Jonathan Coleclough, and everything sent for manufacturing, which is then delayed again not only due to the holiday season, but also because of some very severe wintery weather. Part Four : So, early 2010, after almost four years since it´s initial inception, with tracks spanning that entire period and from even earlier, Above The Sky is finally completed. Delivered from the manufacturers on a snowy day, where ankles are nearly broken hauling the boxes up some very icy steps; it is finished. It has also come full circle; the night of the original concert back in 2006 was also marked by the sheer ice rink that slid downhill outside the venue as we all left in the dark and several of the audience (and some performers) were seen slipping in the air and sliding down the hill on their backs. A strange coincidence. There are 135 special edition two disc copies that come with the bonus album titled Below The Earth which offers an overview of the entire story, and also a standard one disc edition is available that presents the main body of work. It was a long journey, but well worth it. Format: CD Label: ICR
	Paul Bradley & Colin Potter The Simple Plan Recorded and completed at the end of 2008 and on into the first months of 2009, ´The Simple Plan´ offers a change in focus from previous collaborations between these two artists. Comprising five tracks, ´The Simple Plan´ is purely instrumental, recorded in real-time and subjected to only minimal digital processing. Before recording began, the decision was made to create a simpler, more organic piece of work, using computers only sparingly to record the tracks and help with arrangements. There was to be no extended manipulation of sounds, so what you hear, is basically what was played together with no overdubbing and captured live in the studio as both artists alternated between playing vintage synthesizers (the active use of synthesizers being a first for Paul Bradley) and guitars whilst being aided by a selection of new and classic effects pedals. Although not completely analogue in realisation, it was analogue in its intent. All at once harmonious and dissonant, melodic and atonal, calming and animated, these juxtapositions marked the beginning of significant new chapters in the personal lives of both artists and this influenced the work to an almost undeniable degree and is something that subsequently underpins the fundamental nature and feel of ´The Simple Plan´. There is somehow an abstract sense of desire and resolve that although never initially intended as a concept, naturally informed the final recordings. The first 135 special edition copies come with a bonus disc of additional tracks titled ´Accretion´ which offers reworkings of the original recordings where the rules that governed the original sessions were not applied. ´Accretion´ is therefore quite a different selection of pieces offering alternative combinations and views of the original. Format: CD Label: ICR
	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
	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.
	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
	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.
	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
	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
	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.
	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
	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
APPEARS ON :
	Luminance Ratio Like Little Garrisons Besieged LUMINANCE RATIO is a collaborative effort joining sound artists Eugenio Maggi (Cría Cuervos, Slave Auction), Gianmaria Aprile (Ultraviolet Makes Me sick, Fratto9under the sky records) and Andrea Ferraris (Airchamber 3, Ur,Ulna, John Russel, Sil Muir). Featured on this release is Paul Bradley (Twenty Hertz, Monos, etc.)'s personal reinterpretation of their collective work, assembling an expanded "remix concrète" out of the single tracks. Format: CD Label: Boring Machines / fratto9
	Various Artists Resonant Embers Includes : Paul Bradley, Maile Colbert, irr. app. (ext.), jgrzinich, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter and Ubeboet. Format: CD Label: edition sonoro
	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
	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
	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
	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