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Dark (album)
''Dark'' is an album by experimental music group Hwyl Nofio Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning 'swimming fun') is a Welsh experimental music group formed by Steve Parry. History Formed in 1997, Hwyl Nofios' approach touches on various diverse styles and genres, including, industrial music, drone, am ..., released in 2012. Dark explores a landscape steeped in Parry's own personal experience, inspired by walking through his home region of South Wales with a camera and field recorder in hand. Parry provides tangible evidence of this landscape in an accompanying book that introduces the listener to a world of chilling folk myths and the resonances of his own family histories, as well as timely references to the forgotten legacies of local artists/writers. Track listing #"Dusk" #"Gone" #"Black Rain" #"Requiem for the Lost" #"On the Black Hill" #"The Swamp Where Alders Grow" #"Dark" #"Herbert the Steelroller" #"Anticlock" #"Old Crow" #"Fairy Folk Funeral" #"In That Moment" Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwyl Nofio
Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning 'swimming fun') is a Welsh experimental music group formed by Steve Parry. History Formed in 1997, Hwyl Nofios' approach touches on various diverse styles and genres, including, industrial music, drone, ambient and noise. Hwyl Nofio is an evolving ensemble based around its originator Steve Parry, who previously had been a founding member of the Surrealist music group Neu Electrikk and also worked with Matt Johnson of The The and Colin Potter of Nurse with Wound. Hwyl Nofio referred to the approach as a marriage of dilemmas being resolved in another space whereby the music explores and exploits an ongoing collision between harmony and disharmony. Hwyl Nofios' influences include The Velvet Underground, Neu, Jimi Hendrix, John Cage and Harry Partch, The band has over the years has consisted of Steve Parry avant-garde guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with Trevor Stainsby, Sandor Szabo, Fredrik Soegaard, Balazs Major, and Mark Beazley of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experimental Music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music. Elements of experimental music include Indeterminacy in music, indeterminate music, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. Artists may also approach a hybrid of disparate styles or incorporate unorthodox and unique elements. The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in Europe and North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental music's primary innovators, utilizing Indeterminacy (music), indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. In France, as early as 1953, Pierre Schaeffer had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Music
Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences. Avant-garde music may be distinguished from experimental music by the way it adopts an extreme position within a certain tradition, whereas experimental music lies outside tradition. Distinctions Avant-garde music may be distinguished from experimental music by the way it adopts an extreme position within a certain tradition, whereas experimental music lies outside tradition. In a historical sense, some musicologists use the term "avant-garde music" for the radical compositions that succeeded the death of Anton Webern in 1945,Paul Du Noyer (ed.), "Contemporary", in the ''Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music: From Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues and Hip Hop to Classical, Folk, Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Parry (musician)
Stephen John Parry (born 4 September 1958, in Pontypool), is a Welsh guitarist and composer who was a founder member of the experimental rock band Hwyl nofio. He founded and played with Neu Electrikk. He has recorded with Colin Potter of Nurse with Wound and played with Matt Johnson of the post punk band The The. Early days Parry started learning guitar around the age of eight and later studied piano. Parry's mother Anne was a church organist at the local St Mary's Church, Panteg. He often accompanied his Mother to church and sat by her side as she played. The constant drone and mechanism of the church organ fascinated the young boy. Parry is a product of the South Wales Valleys; formative years were spent living in the shadow of The Black Mountains, amid the scars and ruins of a heavily industrial landscape. Both his grandfathers had worked in local industries, coal mines and steel works. Parry previously had recalled the memory of a school trip to a local steelworks, expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hounded By Fury
''Hounded by Fury'' is an album by the Welsh experimental music group, Hwyl Nofio Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning 'swimming fun') is a Welsh experimental music group formed by Steve Parry. History Formed in 1997, Hwyl Nofios' approach touches on various diverse styles and genres, including, industrial music, drone, am ..., released in 2006. Track listing #"A Walk with Mr Gorey" #"Living In Shadows" #"Sanctify" #"Lost Man Found On a Railway Track" #"Riding the Echoes of a Strange Situation" #"The Darkened Windows of a Ghost Train North" #"Child Woman" #"The Fish in the Tide" #"Broken Again" #"The Function of Space" #"Touched by Fire" #"Chapter 27" Personnel * Steve Parry: guitar, adapted guitars, ukulele, adapted viola, piano, church organ, bass, electronics, organ *Trevor Stainsby: acoustic guitar processing (track 11) *Fredrik Soegaard: midi fractal guitar image converter (track 11) *Sandor Szabo: guzheng (track 7) *Mark Powell: saxophone (track 1) * Gorwel Owen: i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock-A-Rolla
''Rock-A-Rolla'' was a music magazine covering experimental, avant-garde, noise and metal artists pushing the boundaries of music. Launched in late 2005, it was published bi-monthly in the UK by V-Squared Publishing Limited and distributed worldwide, mainly in the UK, the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. In the past the magazine has championed such diverse artists as Khanate, Zu, The Locust, Justin Broadrick, Mike Patton, Melvins and others. The editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ... was Vuk Valcic. The magazine ceased publishing in 2016 with the website not being updated and the Twitter feed only offering sale of back copies. References Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom Music magazines published in the United Kingdom Defunct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |