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| Hayward, Charles: One Big Atom |  | Quantity in Basket:none
Code: 7796
Price:$17.95
| | | Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now, Quiet Sun etc.) continues his unique and extraordinary journey through music with the release of ONE BIG ATOM on the artist-led label CONTINUITY... From the 1970's to the present day, Charles has developed and built some of the most radical music of the European underground. Following on with a series of solo projects that have each made bold proposals for possible futures, his new recording ONE BIG ATOM is yet another departure for Charles, taking his song writing further into the personal and political, shifting focus towards a "dread bass" sensibility. It was devised, performed and engineered by him in his South London studio, affording an even more integrated and radical approach to his sound. ONE BIG ATOM stands outside of genre and any easily identified signifiers, jump-cutting between song, collage, sound field, noise, signal, melody. Made over the space of a year as the world went through a series of far-reaching changes, the music is a sort of tangential response. In order to enable a worthwhile and genuine process, no computers were used until final mastering. 'Certainly, computers are convenient and clean sounding,' says Charles 'but the paths and routes within the creative act are becoming proscribed and increasingly useless as strategies for survival and independence because of the constraints of digital protocol. Just as my work needs to have a sci-fi proposition, so it also needs to commit violence against the representation project, the idolatrous need to push our technologies towards a more and more 'realistic' capability that leaves no room for the audience to fill in the spaces and trace their own connections. Instead, I've tried to look at the plasticity of sound, to mould and shape it as material towards a consciously 'recorded' artefact.'
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