Dead Space Chamber Music

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风格: #黑暗民谣
地区: United Kingdom 英国

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“… Beautiful performances like ceremonial sonic-arcs…Neoclassical pitch-dark.” The Cube, Bristol

"Dead Space Chamber Music are a band that will reward your attention in ways you never thought possible." Jonathon Kardasz, Bristol 24/7 www.bristol247.com/culture/music/review-bonnacons-of-doom-the-cube/

"Gossamer, hypnotic, yet darkly lucid neo-classical drone-folk out of Bristol, England, the likes of which I've not quite heard. Under their influence, the listener enters an altogether ancient, and post-modern apocalyptic ritual. One where rapturous, rural incantations and cosmic drones combine to usher us back to eldritch places that can only have existed in aeons past (or future,) or in some dusky, uninhabited theatre of the Mind. This is the perfect soundtrack to a World tumbling toward some dire cosmic end, packed with just enough "hope" to inspire us toward new beginnings." - The Unquiet Meadow, Asheville FM (USA)

We are Dead Space Chamber Music, a dark ambient / ritual / gothic / ethereal / neoclassical trio of cello, guitar and voice, based in Bristol, UK.

Inspired by the focused intensity of ‘chamber music’, we channel and expand it in both musical and performative scope, creating a distinctivley emotive, transportive and atmospheric live experience. Pieces move between shimmering veils of fine textured sound, to heavily saturated effect-laden drones incorporating finely crafted treatments, often infused with vocal field-recording based sound-scapes.

We approach our live performances as a sensory ritual. One work leads into another, forming a multi-layered arc of sound and vision. Our performances seamlessly move between semi-improvised material, integrating reinterpreted songs reaching back to the 14th century.

With an increasing array of symbolic sound-making performative ‘props’, each performance is reworked in varying combinations, to create a different interconnected journey each time. We aim to present audiences with an immersive sense of engagement, which is commonly described as intense, intimate, and enveloping.

We have hosted events and shared local bills with Kolophōn (Agathe Max of Kuro and The SeeR, with Drew Morgan of Modulus III), New Haunts, Ocean Floor, Myth and NAUT. We have opened for Jungfrau, Cold In Berlin, noise pioneer Horacio Pollard, Mildred Maude with Bonnacons Of Doom, and coming up in October, Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade, collaborator with Current 93, Coil, Death in June and Psychic TV).

OEIRA E.P.

The OEIRA E.P is the first studio release by Dead Space Chamber Music, and presents two of their current works, both of which have evolved through playing live. Siren Chant is an early work, developed from a set at the 2016 Bristol Hum festival, which integrates a sound-scape created by Tom, using Ellen’s vocal field-recordings created with the acoustics of the location itself. O Deathe, Rock Me Asleepe is a more recent addition. It is an interpretation of a lute poem accredited to Anne Boleyn, who supposedly wrote it while held in the bloody tower before she died (1536), with portions of the lyrics sung in Welsh, mainly for expressive sound and emotive connection of it (Ellen grew up bilingually in West Wales).

The band explains the title as “a hybrid word, an amalgamation of ‘oer’ and ‘eira’ (‘cold’ and ‘snow’ in Welsh), and being a newly invented word has no fixed pronunciation.” The period of making the E.P. coincided with unseasonably heavy snowfall, which they explain “interrupted and altered daily experience, creating the uncanny feeling of a ‘time outside of time’ for those few days. We wanted to reflect this feeling in the title, and in the artwork". Ellen created the cover image by photographing a tomb at the nearby Temple Church ruins in the snow, printing it out as a negative, creating a 2d version on cardboard, and taking that back to the ruins to photograph it situ; so the final image is not what it seems and, hopefully, inherently contains a subtle sense of the uncanny, the mysterious, with the appearance of reality but incrementally and intangibly ‘shifted’.”

Other projects and interests

Guitarist Tom Bush is currently working on his own compositions for digital release. Cellist Liz Muir also plays with the improvisation ensemble Viridian ( @ViridianEnsemble ) who recently played live on Resonance FM. Ellen Southern has an ongoing practice around site-specific voice, sound and visual art ( @EllenSouthernVoice ); recent collaborations include BURL (live tour and Compound E.P 2016: tinyurl.com/yb3kjv5u) and The Seer (Supersonic Festival 2017, and The Woodland Gathering 2018 tinyurl.com/y9q4xlrw ).

Dead Space Chamber Music are vocal in their support of independent grassroots music venues and festivals. They are currently part of the Music Venue Trust’s ‘Fightback’ campaign, and singer Ellen has been interviewed by The Bristol Cable at a protest against the closure of the Surrey Vaults in Bristol: bit.ly/2EVemvT.

Dead Space Chamber Music

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