
Track taken from the album 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay' / HB50 - Released October 2013

Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.

With a long standing interest in music making and active listening, Hazeldine works with any influences, from his surrounding landscape to the artists he has worked with. His compositions often take on a semi-improvised structure with accidental atmospheres used as a starting point. As well as his own projects, Hazeldine also works with Marconi Union's Richard Talbot, under the name Prospector. He also works as a graphic designer, film maker and photographer, having art directed many of the Hibernate releases including our critically acclaimed vinyl series, and has worked with many other artists and labels including Facture, Field Rotation and Olan Mill.

In late 2009 Antonymes released 'Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future' on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay'. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.

The sleeve features beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram, fitting the music perfectly.

Credits:
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky.com)
Photography by Richard Outram and Ian M Hazeldine
Art Direction by Ian M Hazeldine

“Majestic testament to a talent that is fully realized… Hazeldine’s work is distinct, yet the parts remain hazy in one’s memory, dreamlike” - The Silent Ballet

"So moving that I myself am at a loss for words" - Delusions of Adequacy

"Not only music for dreams, but rather a complex mosaic by a romantic minimalist" - Ondarock

"Unfolds at a beautifully measured pace" - Textura

"Barely visible movements of slate grey cumulonimbus, slowly building its massive architecture, rumbles of thunder emanating from its core" - Futuresequence

"Amazingly uplifting listen with surprise euphoria hidden around every corner" - Norman Records.


Misshapen Beauty [i]

A Beginner's Guide to the Past

http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/there-can-be-no-true-beauty-without-decay

Means Of Escape [i]

301210

The Gramophone Suite

A Beginners Guide to the Past

The Gramophone Suite II

Unbright Star

Coming Into Silence

The Gramophone Suite I

The Gramophone Suite IV

Coming Out of Silence

Half Life

The Gramophone Suite III

Remember Me

Something new to warm the heart in festive times. This is a FREE track, but please consider making a donation, as all proceeds will go to charity. You can download/donate @: http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/track/branches-of-green-delight

Branches Of Green Delight

Falling [ii]

Forever Without Hope [ii]

Strange Light [ii]

In instrumental version of a track from my forthcoming album, "(For Now We See)Through A Glass Dimly". Set for release in March 2016, the full track features the words of Paul Morley spoken by Dutch musician Jan Van Den Broeke. The track also features electronic details by Richard Talbot (Marconi Union).

Little Emblems Of Eternity (Instrumental)

Remixed from the Slow Dancing Society track "By Your Side", from the Hidden Shoal Album "Under The Sodium Lights".

A Feeling Of Being Closer

Pre-order the album on CD and digitally now at: http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/for-now-we-see-through-a-glass-dimly

Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’, the stunning new single by acclaimed neo-classical ambient artist Antonymes, taken from the forthcoming album "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly".
 
Sonically minimal yet emotionally formidable, ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’ features the stirring string arrangements of James Banbury (The Auteurs) and Christoph Berg (Field Rotation), which engage in reflective conversation with Ian M. Hazeldine's plaintive piano. Its emotional potency and compositional dexterity draws you into an evocative world, demanding engagement.
 
In addition to James Banbury and Christoph Berg, "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly" also includes contributions from composer Stefano Guzzetti, Joanna Swan (Ilya) and writer Paul Morley. Mixed by Stefano Guzzetti and Paul Humphreys (OMD), and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below), the album’s depth of sound is awe-inspiring. It is released by Hidden Shoal on 21st April 2016.

http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/antonymes/

This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Towards Tragedy And Dissolution

Taken from the album (For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly, Delicate Power also forms part of a remix EP, Delicate Power (In The Hands Of Others), which will be released digitally on 31st May 2016. The EP features remixes by Marconi Union, Markus Mehr, Lvmark and Antonymes.

antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/delicate-power-in-the-hands-of-others
https://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/for-now-we-see-through-a-glass-dimly

Delicate Power

Remixed by Marconi Union forthe  EP, Delicate Power (In The Hands Of Others). Released digitally on 31st May 2016, the EP also features remixes by Markus Mehr, Lvmark and Antonymes.

Delicate Power is the second single to be taken from Antonymes’ new album (For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly. Marconi Union tease the original into a beautifully orchestrated anti-gravity ballad.

EP: antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/delicat…nds-of-others
Album: antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/for-now…a-glass-dimly
Video: https://youtu.be/vvyShG2YizQ

Delicate Power (Dissolved By Marconi Union)

From the album "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly"
Buy on CD here: https://antonymes.bandcamp.com/
Stream the entire album for free here: http://spoti.fi/2cAJxyL

Fatal Ambition

Taken from my latest album "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly", ‘Elegy (ii)’ features the elegantly dexterous vocals of Joanna Swan (Ilya) and the incisive strings of Christoph Berg (Field Rotation).
The album, as described by Hidden Shoal:
The 10 tracks that comprise "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly" have an emotional potency and compositional dexterity that surpasses the acclaimed body of work that precedes them, drawing you into their evocative world and demanding engagement. The album includes contributions from Christoph Berg (Field Rotation), composer Stefano Guzzetti, James Banbury (The Auteurs), Joanna Swan (Ilya) and writer Paul Morley. Mixed by Stefano Guzzetti and Paul Humphreys (OMD), and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below), the album’s depth of sound is awe-inspiring.
For more releases by Antonymes: https://antonymes.bandcamp.com/
This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Antonymes on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2cAJxyL

Elegy (ii)

This track appears on the Touched Music compilation "Touched 3", which features a staggering 417 artists, including: Digitonal, 808 State, Isan, Olan Mill, Greg Haines and so many more great artists.  It was released by the wonderful Martin Boulton to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. So far he has raised over £50,000 for the charity.

Please listen, share and support this very important cause. You can buy this amazing compilation here: https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-3 Antonymes on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2cAJxyL

Drawn Away

The Australia-based label Hidden Shoal celebrates its 10th year of existence with the new compilation album "Eat Your Friends", comprising remixes and covers of Hidden Shoal artists, by Hidden Shoal artists. The album not only showcases the wealth of original music released through the label, but also the creative ingenuity and deft musical touch of the remixers and cover artists.

From searing solar-flared adaptations to delicately reconstructed covers, deep space jam reworkings, and shimmering ambient tapestries, "Eat Your Friends" re-imagines the Hidden Shoal discography in new and beautiful ways, playing to all the strengths of the roster’s dizzying array of talent.

Includes remixes and covers by:
Antonymes, Arc Lab, Glanko, Wayne Harriss, Liminal Drifter, Makee, Chloe March, Markus Mehr, Erik Nilsson, REW<<, Slow Dancing Society, Tin Manzano, Willem Gator, and Zealous Chang

of music by:
Arc Lab, Brother Earth, Cheekbone, City of Satellites, Medard Fischer, Gilded, Glanko & Daniel Bailey, Kryshe, Memorybell, Erik Nilsson, perth, Slow Dancing Society, Tangled Star, Umpire, and Zealous Chang.

Visit www.hiddenshoal.com to listen and learn more.
credits
released December 8, 2016

Credits:

Eternal love and thanks to all the artists involved in this release, and to all Hidden Shoal artists, past and present. It has been an honour to support you all these last 10 years. Here’s to the next 10!

All original songs taken from the Hidden Shoal catalogue, and remixed or covered by Hidden Shoal artists. Mastered by Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio: forensicaudio.com.au

To learn more about Hidden Shoal, its artists and releases, visit hiddenshoal.com

All Hidden Shoal music is available for licensing across film, tv, web, games, compilations and more. Email Cam Merton at Hidden Shoal or check out our website for more details: cam@hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Eat Your Friends

Reef

Reef (Cheekbone Cover)

From a new collaborative album by Bigo And Twigetti in conjunction with Moderna Records. ‘The Exquisite Corpse’ is based on the surrealist game of the same name. Taking Leah Kardos 'Little Phase' from Bigo and Twigetti's Summer compilation as it's starting point, the piece will be reworked by a series of composers and producers to create an album of tracks which continually evolve as each new version is passed from one artist to another, adding to and transforming material from the original piece.

Purchase the full album here: https://bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-exquisite-corpse

Antonymes - Half Life

Demo for my next album, The Gramophone Suite, which will be released late 2018. The track will also feature on the Soundcolours compilation "Chilltronica No6"

Film Two

Film One

From the Drionarivm compilation "Illuminations ii"

For Piano Day 2018, a sneak preview from the reissue of "Like Rumours Of Hushed Thunder". A deluxe limited edition Pledge Music release for Les Disques De L'Alccalmie on luxurious white vinyl, with additional material recorded at the time of the original release. Packages include a limited edition of 10 lathe cut 7" singles, each in a unique hand made sleeve, limited edition posters and more to be announced.

301210 (for Piano Day 2018)

The expanded double CD re-issue of The Licence To Interpret Dreams will be released late August / early September 2018. The original multitracks have been refreshed to give a new life to the album. Alongside this there is an additional CD, which features remixes by Marconi Union, Hummingbird, The Humble Bee, Tape Loop Orchestra, Peter Jørgensen, Ben Chatwin, Ian Hawgood, Aaron Martin, Olan Mill, Bill Seaman, Field Rotation, Antonymes and Clem Leek. The remixes are very special and the whole thing has been lovingly remastered by James Plotkin.

This very limited album comes out on the wonderful Fluid Audio imprint and will include a 24 page perfect bound book housed in a heavyweight card sleeve.

Here's a sneak preview, the Antonymes remix which takes elements from several tracks on the original album.

Lost In Waves Of Light

The expanded double CD re-issue of The Licence To Interpret Dreams will be released late August / early September 2018. The original multitracks have been refreshed to give a new life to the album. Alongside this there is an additional CD, which features remixes by Marconi Union, Hummingbird, The Humble Bee, Tape Loop Orchestra, Peter Jørgensen, Ben Chatwin, Ian Hawgood, Aaron Martin, Olan Mill, Bill Seaman, Field Rotation, Antonymes and Clem Leek. The remixes are very special and the whole thing has been lovingly remastered by James Plotkin.

This very limited album comes out on the wonderful Fluid Audio imprint and will include a 24 page perfect bound book housed in a heavyweight card sleeve.

A Light From The Heavens

In a Cafe At the End of the World

Taken from the compilation "...And Darkness Came". Curated by Headphone Commute to benefit all of those affected by Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, which has devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. 100% of all the proceeds generated from the sale of this album will be donated towards two charitable organizations: Doctors Without Borders and The Humane Society. The artists on the release have been hand-picked to showcase the world's top talent in ambient, modern classical, and experimental music. The unprecedented selection features many unreleased pieces composed exclusively for the cause. 

Elegy IV

Antonymes : In Formation

Antonymes music emerges from the adjustments and erasures of ambient, the pace and persistence of minimalism, where music expresses nothing but itself, from the serenity and austerity of Morton Feldman and the profound prettiness of Harold Budd, from the relationship between continuity and repetition rather than of contract and interplay, from secrecy, from quietness, from pause, from thought, from emptiness, from time, from far off, from itself, from where it is set and where it is setting off to.   
 
“My chief aim is to make a piece of music. You make it for yourself firstly, and then if other people want to join in, then there we are.”
 
Antonymes makes music at the edge of, and deep inside, and from above North Wales, which you can think of as a very real place, available to be visited at any time in the solid present, and also as a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place, which is all it has ever been, legend, spirit, mist and fluctuating stillness stretching back to a time and place where it was seemed like the beginning of a dream, one that would always become another dream, and another, and so on. It’s worth mentioning that Antonymes is of North Wales: to take an approach to the music understanding the location where it was made up and produced, to approach the music as if it is the beginning, or the end, of some kind of map, that will take you up mountains, across streams, to the sea, where the tide comes in, and the tide goes out, under the waves, through the woods and into the obscure wilderness that stretches between one patch of land and another, between one village and the next. So: Antonymes, of North Wales, recalling the lines of the great North Welsh poet RS Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.’
 
Formed at some point during 2008 by designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M Hazeldine, as a group that could contain just himself, and others when it seemed appropriate, Antonymes first album was titled ‘Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future’. Released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, ‘31: Before The Light Fails’, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. One review described the work as “a daring and inspired exercise in creating a timeless work of art.” Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet.
 
Antonymes music is made up, something coming from nowhere, with no clear sense of what might happen next, and yet a vague sense of what might happen after that. It begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention, and something of the soul, and the mind catching itself combine over time, until a shape appears, which suggest other shapes, and lines, and something else, an anatomy, the lateral spread of a single surface, and a shadow or two. A composition, the result of a mystical sequence of events involving improvisation, imagination, presentation, communication, intuition and manipulation, has been completed. It is the improvisation, certainly, more of Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Alvin Curran and La Monte Young than jazz, the patient, probing occasionally accidental forming of structure, tension and atmosphere around spontaneity and a form of focussed daydreaming, which is a near relation of a form of praying.

Paul Morley, January 2011.

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