Cat No:
BRC013
Release Date: 24 September 2021
Label: Birmingham Record Company
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060644810125
Genres: Classical Contemporary Country
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Description
7balcony is an experimental electronic music duo initiated by composer-performers Richard Stenton (Birmingham) and Zach Dawson (Shropshire). Their self-titled debut record features composed, notated electronic music specifically created for and performed by the duo. It represents an output synthesising a focus on classical performance practice with computer controlled outcomes through processes of durational and musical automation.
The duo have carved an aesthetic grounded in distinct references to historical periods, New and Experimental musical practices, decontextualised ancient religious music, and a dystopian sound world where machine automation dictates and controls musical performance. Encapsulated within this world the listener finds lo-fi recorded samples, MIDI and scored music specific to detuned vintage synthesisers. The pieces featured on the album stem from particular contexts, though carefully curated and conceptualised to both compliment and contrast individual aesthetic and stylistic qualities.
The name 7balcony comes from Ed Ruscha's 1984 oil painting The Music from the Balconies in which the phrase "the music from the balconies nearby was overlaid by the noise of sporadic acts of violence" is lifted from J.G. Ballard's dystopian novel High-Rise (1975), and painted in a clean, modern font on top of a landscape grassland scene, jarring the context for a dark futuristic urban environment with pastoral abstract art.
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Tracklisting
- 1. vertical cities
- 2. premier
- 3. st. vitus
- 4. forever grave
- 5. fadin'/dyin'
- 6. nobody's here but everybody's listening
- 7. lo gloss
- 8. you won't make it back
- 9. microphones hanging from tall buildings
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Side 1
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Benjamin Oliver: Too Many Sweets
Hannah Williams, Riot Ensemble, Yshani Perinpanayagam, Cliodna Shanahan, Dorothy Chan, Ensemble Saxologie
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A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time
Benjamin Tassie
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Joe Cutler: Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii
Orkest de Ereprijs; Wim Boerman; Trish Clowes; BBC Concert Orchestra
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Aria Cuntata and the Low Miracles
Suzie Purkis , Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
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Simon Hall: Voyage Foog, Phat Moog
Simon Hall
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Joe Cutler: Boogie Nights
Orkest De Ereprijs; Wim Boerman; The Schubert Ensemble; Darragh Morgan; Mary Dullea; Daniele Rosina
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Michael Wolters: Danserye
Michelle Holloway; Jack Mcneill; Paul Norman; Simon Goff
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Catalogue Demojis
Michael Walters; Paul Norman; Cobalt Duo
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Bone Idle Bros
Bone Idle Bros
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Your Pal Slim: Songs of James Hand
Ags Connolly
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Red Hot & Country
Red Hot Organization
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Unbroke
Sara Evans
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That Girl
Hannah Ellis
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Harvest Highway
Jimmy Rankin
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Promises Promises
Hank Wangford & Noel Dashwood
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Only What I Feel / When Fallen Angels Fly / The Trou...
Patty Loveless
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