music taken from  'The Lovely Fish' ,'Night Tree' and 'Sounds Of Snow'

Beethum's core consists of four friends, although occasionally additional musicians are drawn in. 

In the studio Beethum have been lucky to have some wonderful guitar contributions courtesy of Neil Smith (This Is The Kit) we were also extremely happy to have the opportunity to work with Adrian Utley on tracks for the third as yet unnamed album. 

Before the pandemic, Beethum played a small invite-only gig in a local church hall. We were delighted to have such notable guests as John Parish and Aldous Harding in attendance. We plan to organise more performances when the pandemic subsides.

As a band Beethum are drawn to  textures and sounds from a wide palette of sources.  Acoustic and electronic instruments sit side-by-side, sometimes easily and sometimes discordantly, to create a sound that can be both beautiful and challenging.

For a long time Beethum have been creating music in their basement studio as a kind of cathartic artistic endeavour. Now they would really like people to hear it. All comments and advice are genuinely appreciated, so feel free to get in touch.

American recently moved to Wales, UK.  Have been recording music, audio, sound design since the mid 80s.  Yes, I'm old.

Winner of 2024 Liverpool Songwriting Competition with "The Boy With the Red Hat", taken from "Death to Mortality".

People have said that Jim plays guitar like a drummer. He is. In the mid eighties, he toured the Far East, Europe and Tyneside with near-legendary Geordie club band Foxy, before putting down his sticks, opting for a life of obscurity as graphic designer, husband and dad.

In his late thirties with a mid-life-crises looming, he started writing and recording his songs, self-releasing “Some Songs by Jim Pearson” in his fortieth year.

Suddenly, nothing happened, so he continued, and gradually accumulated a niche following of several well-intentioned virtual people, each possessing an uncanny appreciation of music and lyrics, as well as managing to get a handful of plays on BBC 6 music.

Jim is also singer, guitarist, songwriter with niche NW-UK band Scaredycats, who's debut album "Dumb Animals" was pronounced album of the year by Liverpool Sound and Vision in 2017.

Last year, he was a key collaborator and producer with international lockdown supergroup "Nothing On TV".

According to Jim... "You might not agree, but I think I’m getting better at this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never get the global recognition I so clearly deserve, and honestly, I am all the happier for it."

BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson says... “This is the astonishingly prolific Merseyside songwriter Jim Pearson… you never can be sure what kind of project Jim will come up with next, but you can always be sure it’s gonna be pretty darn good...” (The Tom Robinson Show, January 25th 2020)

Songwriter from Northern England
https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5R96vnb0ABdaZRMLG4XUNf

Scaredycats
https://scaredycatsuk.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/02W2iVwO5b3EIjzspgmS1N

Nothing On TV
https://nothingontv.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/07ADDEerdBir7xBgvdYyeo?si=k65U2tPkQuqbd1WFuPQOyA

The Bardo Effect has metamorphosed into a most ambitious phantasmagoria  project to date offering a backlog of multiple-genred side projects.

Bardo  Thödol is Tibetan for “Liberation in the Intermediate State Through Hearing” in order to achieve a Nirvana state. What does the bardo sound like? Music has always been used to express states of emotion that transverse a broad gamut of cyclothymia to liberate the mind and soul, to lift the spirit or to create a space for grief. There are six bardo states and a genre of music offers a totem to these transitions.

 The Bardo Effect steps into the void and experiences the many Loka, travelling through other-music-world portals, aural projections and flash backs of life, love, sadness, bliss, death and rebirth, all through listening to the Bardo. 

Bardo 1. Dark Passenger,
 Soul Rider, Weapons of...Pass...destruction 
Bardo 2. The secret Guild of Apollyon  (still in creation stage)
Bardo 3.  The Pharmakon
Bardo 4. Bardo Thodol 
Bardo 5. multiple projects
Bardo 6. TBC


Looking for collabs. Would love to find people to bring my music to the stage.

https://linktr.ee/atherslad

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