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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Remastered edition of DSCM's debut album on CD.
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Remastered edition of DSCM's debut album on cassette.
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“Imagine you’ve just awoken and you’re wandering the corridors of a space station, but it’s not the clean, functional corporate sort of space station that the USS Enterprise would dock at; nor is it the beat up, lived in funky sort of space station where you’d find the Millennium Falcon. This is a space station designed by Giger & Lynch. You’re walking the corridors, feeling at ease and comforted but strangely there’s an underlying sense of other worldliness about the environment…something not quite right? Surely Cthulhu can’t have made it to the edge of the universe?
You enter a biosphere with a babbling brook and rolling English meadows and hear what almost sounds like a spidery madrigal, a plaintive voice “Flow my tears…flow my tears….” strong and clear and yet with an undeniable tinge of melancholy. Leaving the biosphere you’re plunged into darker realms, the otherworldliness has transmuted to base menace, there’s something just of sight, lurking at the corner of your eye, not willing to show itself until…until the time is right.
Quickening your pace, you burst through the doors ahead to find yourself in a courtyard surrounded by Moorish buildings with the sun setting behind the minarets. The dervishes and djinn are dancing, but in slow motion, and you’re compelled to join them until the music ceases, leaving you off kilter – not disturbed but dishevelled and disorientated as the musicians leave the stage.
Dead Space Chamber Music played four pieces of music – Food for the Moon (an improvisation); Flow My Tears (a John Dowland adaptation); Screaming Veils (an improvisation) and Je Vivroie Liement (a reworking of a Machaut composition). The music was executed in near dark and Tom Bush, Liz Muir and Ellen Southern delivered the performance with classy, understated aplomb.
The audience awoke in the corridors with Southern amongst them playing a wine glass; the transition from the corridors to the biosphere saw the music fading to black with Southern easing the transition with the rustling of a space blanket. Her vocals (whether singing or vocalising) were strong but just so, and she was a captivating focal point in a less is more way. Bush’s guitar was treated throughout and mostly the source of great swathes of ambience rather than solos or riffs (but there was some welcome heft in Je Vivroie Liement); Muir’s cello was both treated and au naturel, forming the bedrock for the pieces, dragging the sci-fi sounds back to the Gothic. All three musicians worked pedals and shakers both individually and in tandem to dress the soundscapes with misheard noises, unearthly transmissions and sonic emissions.
This was a confident, challenging and satisfying suite of work, the four pieces segueing seamlessly as a collective piece of music and Dead Space Chamber Music are a band that will reward your attention in ways you never thought possible.”
- Jonathon Kardasz, Bristol 24/7
PRAISE FOR DSCM:
“… Beautiful performances like ceremonial sonic-arcs…Neoclassical pitch-dark.” The Cube, Bristol
“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)
"Dead Space Chamber Music offer up a crafted dronescape of e-bowed pickups and cylindered frets and a witchy, spiralling sonic topped off with choral gasps and murmuring abstractions ... whorling and wondrous, routing the rich ritualistic vibe as those glints of restrained guitar picked at sun-wheeled vocals...The second track evilled an Edith Piaf-like glow, with a Spanish-tinged guitar for the vocalist to slither a deep melancholic. A vibe that had you totally captivated words theatrically spiralled, illuminated, then liminally spilled, (a performance that ensured a rush to the merch table from the hardest of hearts). The last track percussively pandered a wilder dynamic in a tour de force of claspy thump to gnarly guitar, as Ellen volta(ed) a medieval operatic, later crouching down, a mirror held high above her, circling the venue’s ceiling as their set slowly drowned in a dirgey demise." - Michael Rodham-Heaps, Freq
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credits
released November 5, 2021
First released September 23, 2018
Line up:
Tom Bush: guitar + sampler
Liz Muir: cello
Ellen Southern: voice + sound-works
Katie Murt: drums / percussion on Liement me Deport (remix)
Produced by DSCM and Tom Berry. Engineered by Tom Berry and Callum Godfroy. Mastered by Callum Godroy. Mixed and remastered by Tom Berry
Recorded at DBS Music with acoustics from St John on the Wall church and crypt / St George's Church / St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol, July-August 2018.
Flow My Teares is based on an ayre by John Dowland (1563-1626).
Je Vivroie Liement / Liement Me Deport is based on a virelai by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377).
Cover art: untitled artwork by Ellen Southern (vocals), ink and brush on paper, inspired by a woodcut from the Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster). Printed in 1544, it is the earliest known German language description of the world, featuring astronomy, mathematics, physical geography, and cartography. Other artwork by Ellen Southern featured:c Candles (alight, and extinguished before its time).
A stunning live performer, every release from this innovative cellist charts another step in a fascinating sonic journey. Powerful, tender and masterful playing, and top notch composition. Dead Space Chamber Music
Sinister, abrasive and haunted circuitry. Creeping textures, tense harmonies and unrelenting rhythms to soundtrack the horror film playing endlessly somewhere in your unconscious... Dead Space Chamber Music
First class synth song-craft. Acknowledges the influences and tradition whilst carrying things forward. Great balance of melodic vocal work, blasts of icy synth and a bit of industrial grit and edge. Dead Space Chamber Music
