
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.


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Johann Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792)
Eduard Allwills einziges geistliches Lied
- Beim Aufstehen, Schlafengehen und bei der Versuchung der Sirenen zu singen -

Wie die Lebensflamme brennt! 
Gott du hast sie angezündet, 
Ach und deine Liebe gönnt 
Mir das Glück, das sie empfindet. 

Aber brenn' ich ewig nur? 
Gott du siehst den Wunsch der Seele! 
Brenn' ich ewig, ewig nur, 
Dass ich andre wärm', mich quäle? 

Ach, wo brennt sie, himmlisch schön, 
Die mir wird in meinem Leben 
Was das Glück sei, zu verstehen, 
Was du seist zu kosten geben! 

Bis dahin ist all mein Tun 
Ein Gewerb' von Peinigungen, 
All mein Glück ein taubes Ruhn, 
Meine Lust, mein Dank erzwungen. 

Du erkennst mein Innerstes, 
Dieses Herzens heftig Schlagen, 
Ich ersticke seine Klagen, 
Aber Gott, du kennest es. 

Es ist wahr, ich schmeckte schon 
Augenblicke voll Entzücken, 
Aber Gott! – in Augenblicken 
Steht denn da dein ganzer Lohn?

Funken waren das von Freuden, 
Vögel die verkünd'ten Land, 
Wenn die Seele ihrer Leiden 
Höh' und Tief' nicht mehr verstand. 

Aber gäb es keine Flammen 
Und betrög uns denn dein Wort, 
Sucht' uns gleich der klugen Ammen 
Einzuschläfern fort und fort? 

Nein, ich schreie – Vater, Retter! 
Dieses Herz wird ausgefüllt, 
Will gesättigt sein; zerschmetter 
Lieber sonst dein Ebenbild! 

Soll ich ewig harren, streben, 
Hoffen und vertraun in Wind? 
Nein, ich lass dich nicht, mein Leben, 
Du beseligst denn dein Kind!
.
Gesprochern von Ch.Köhler
. . .

Martin Buchfink

Eduard Allwills einziges geistliches Lied (J.M.Reinhold Lenz)

'INSIDE LIFE' CD & Digital available > https://ampl.ink/vPY63
Cello: Julián Kancepolski
Analog Mastered by Ian Hawgood · Tokio
Artwork & layout CD by Andy Ruggia · Buenos Aires
"Inside Life immerses the listener into magnificently expressive modern classical realms, tranquilly minimal, yet exquisitely nuanced, abundantly poignant and delicately filigree, where stirringly pensive sadness is masterfully counterpointed with hauntingly embracing stillness, while intensely evocative ambient subtleties are deliberately permeated by yearning haze. A truly fabulous bravura performance by Bruno Sanfilippo and his guests!"  
Bruno is an Argentinian classically trained musician, producer, and composer based in Barcelona who writes for strings, piano, and electronics.  In 1998 he started as a producer for ad21, a personal platform and label. His Piano Textures series, started in 2007, is one of Sanfilippo’s most representative set of recordings, but he has also gained wider recognition in modern music – one of his piano compositions formed the basis for Canadian rapper Drake’s seminal hit, ‘Started From The Bottom’.
www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

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