these are some of the earliest hieronymous tracks, basically in reverse chronological order - some recorded in Bedford, MA, Wayland, MA, Berkeley, CA & Kyoto Japan - many recorded in multiple locations!

hieronymous - the early years

The TARDIS

AKA HYDRAGRONE1

ASM Hydrasynth Explorer + maneco labs GRONE

HYDRAGRONE

"My Client Wore The Weirdest Sweater" composed & performed by Bob Ross (all instruments...including four separate layers of 8-string bass)

MY CLIENT WORE THE WEIRDEST SWEATER - Bob Ross

AKA HYDRAGRONE2

ASM Hydrasynth Explorer + maneco labs GRONE

BLADEGRONE

Obake Jams - Halloween Performance of "Dagger of the Moog"

Interpolating "Within You Without You" composed by George Harrison

dagger of the obake within you without you

Since the 1990s, the San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic jazz-rock collective 'Mushroom' has been compared to Can, Soft Machine, Miles Davis, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Traffic.
Now in 2024 with their 15th studio album,
 "Messages from the Spliff Bunker" -
Distributed by Real Gone -  # Hey101  Double vinyl LP

01 LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE LP1 Side A - 1

Piccolo Beat

Monster Inc. Natali Noor

hieronymous: Tune 8-string bass, Fender Japan Mustang Bass, synths
Tiberius Creme: Moog synth solo
Greg DeGuglielmo: drums
Composed by Bridge/DeGuglielmo
Drums recorded at Oxbow Studios by Damon Burke in 2005
Additional recording and mixing by hieronymous in Kyoto, Japan
Now with original artwork!

Next to Last

Stylophone CPM DS-2 analog drone synthesizer + Maneco Labs Grone Drone + Valhalla reverb
Spontaneously composed by electronymous March 23, 2025
Dedicated to JES

just empty space

13016b

Jaguar Bottom Master 6-string bass guitar, Moog Rogue synth: hieronymous
Drums: Greg DeGuglielmo
Spontaneously composed by Bridge/DeGuglielmo
Recorded at the original Oxbow Studios in Wayland, MA by Damon Burke in 2005

Afternoon Stroll

The poem by Jacob Læby this track is based on:

The White Death

Outside the desert rides on gluttonous dead camels
and we draw circles in the sand
like traces from a meandering snake

The starling's wailing anguish of spring
signs
cloaked in cosmic background noise

The virus judgment from beyond's primordial soup
develops a photograph of you in second hand clothes
that seems to incarnate the mumps' swollen flu-bride
choked by the neuter mirror image of Pan

A bioluminence shadow of the past
lost in the vertiginous meta-geometric labyrinth of Fibunaci

The white death that sometimes creeps
in under the doorstep,
shoots needle pain phantoms through the seams of our dress,
deprive space it's embrace of time,
and expose the view through
love's bars:

My heavenward peepholes' apple cavities
turn in the velour padded teak wood coffin of your soul
by proximity's stinging vacuum:

A singularity of hungering apathy!
The eye that breathes behind our back!

A dulling impotence
every time your head
hides behind a shrug

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Original Danish poem:

Den Hvide Død

Udenfor rider ørkenen på forslugende døde kameler
og vi tegner ringe i sandet
som spor fra en bugtende slange

Stærens jamrende fårårskvaler
er tegn
forklædt i kosmisk baggrundstøj

Virusdommen fra det hensides ursuppe
fremkalder et fotografi af dig i genbrugstøj
der synes at inkarnere fåresygens opsvulmede influensabrud
som kvæles af et intetkønnet spejlbillede af Pan

En bioluminent fortids skygge
tabt i Fibunacis svimlende metageometriske labyrint

Den hvide død der indimellem sniger sig
ind under dørtærskelen,
skyder fantomnålesmerter gennem vores klædedragts syning,
fratager rummet dets favntag om tiden
og blotlægger udsigten gennem
kærlighedens tremmer:

Mine himmelråbende gluk-huller's æblehuler
vender sig i din sjæls velourpolstrede
teaktræskiste ved nærhedens stikkende vakum:

En singularitet af sultende aparti!
Øjet der ånder os i nakken!

En sløvende afmagt
hver gang dit hoved gemmer sig
bag et skuldertræk

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Featuring on the album Dør, which title means both Door and Dies in Danish.

The whole album can be downloaded for free here (when asked how much you wish to pay just type 0):
https://fjernsind.bandcamp.com/album/d-r-2

Album description:
This album, which title Dør means both Door and Dies in Danish, takes the listener on a 75 minute long strange and intense musical journey through mesmerizing and eerie drone, ambient and noise soundscapes. 

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Dør

The White Death

Free Download

Fjernsind - Den Hvide Død (The White Death)

Mystical transmission from the ElectroBorealis-2 - listen carefully next time you are looking towards the north side of the sky...

bass, synth drone: hieronymous (bass: 1968 Gibson EB-2 & Crowther Prunes & Custard; drone: Moog Rogue, CP-251 Moogerfooger splitting MF-103 LFO to simultaneously control frequency of MF-101 low pass filter & Frostwave Resonator)
drums: Greg DeGuglielmo

Spontaneously composed by Bridge/DeGuglielmo
Recorded at the original Oxbow Studios by Damon Burke

minus prolegomenon

hieronymous: Rickenbacker 4003S/8 8-string bass, ARP 2600 synth, Roland Space Echo
Greg DeGuglielmo: drums
Composed by Bridge
Recorded at Oxbow Studios by Damon Burke

8 Echo Dr.

Here's a REALLY "old" one! This must be from around 2003 or so - the second recording session at Oxbow Studios - came in with a sketch, a week or two later in Berkeley with a Moog and there's a song! I played my Gibson EB-2 bass with fuzz and Greg DeGuglielmo is playing drums, Micromoog overdubs by hieronymous.

Composed by Bridge.
Original recording by Damon Burke at the original Oxbow Studios in Wayland, MA. 
Synth overdubs done at the Institute of Buddhist Studies dormitory in Berkeley, CA.

Philtre 927

hieronymous is an ongoing instrumental music project, centered on the bass guitar and drums - the music is mainly improvisational, following the "instant composition" style pioneered by Can, Miles Davis, the Grateful Dead, etc.


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