
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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Max Herrmann-Neiße (1886-1941)

Erkenntnis ist ein Wald von Schnee um meine Stirn.
Ich stehe still. Tatkraft zerbricht unter der Last.
Zermalmter Zweig. Bin ich für immer ungebetner Gast
und muß ein Leben lang von fremder Tür zu fremder Türe irrn?

Im Sonnenaufgang stirbt mein Stern. Ein See
von blauer Seele gibt sich einem Berg verkrümmten Dunkels hin.
Ich weine selbstgefälliges Mitleid. Ängste mich nach einem Sinn,
der leuchtend leitet durch den endlos aufgetürmten Wald von Schnee.

Ich halte meine Hände unbewußt wie zum Gebet
für einen fremden Mann, für eine fremde Frau.
Ich zwinge mich zur Lust . . . zum Ernst . . . und ich verblasse grau
ein wesenloser Schatten, der von seinem lang schon toten Herrn in wesenloser Zwietracht geht . . .

Denn Liebe wird Verleumdung. Zweikampf prallt aus Glück.
Kein Leichtsinn singt Verlorenes zurück.
Dies starb: Frommsein, voll Heiterkeit, in allem ohne Sünde wider dich und mich.
Jeder fühlt bei jedem Schritt im Herzen der einen unvergeßlichen Sekunde Messerstich.
.
Gesprochen von Ch.Köhler
. . .

Erkenntnis ist... (Max Herrmann-Neiße)

'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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