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Cold Outer Worlds

by julian Broadhurst

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Uranus - Rh 277 56:10
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Neptune - Rh 291 01:04:41

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Cold Outer Worlds - Electronic music, Em 28 - my 75th album.
My last consciously Cosmic, or Kosmiche Album.

Lonely, icy cold music, for the far distant heavens, for the far distant imagination. The music I wanted to float away to so badly, many years ago, that it drove me to search the world of recorded music for such an aesthetic - which I found expression for in the - early years of my electronic music. A music that suffused into a search for the sublime, and a whole new way of my thinking about music.

"Excellent - perfect expression of our 'outer worlds' in music - Neptune and Uranus evoke both the mystery and cold awareness/unawareness of the planets so close to us, yet also, so far Away !" - Peter Byrom-Smith - British Contemporary Composer - 23rd August 2015.

This momentous double album marks a peak of some kind, and took rather a long route to completion, in five separate stages at my Isabel Studio in 2008. In the first sketches Uranus had two parts - Uranus Pt 1 - Rh 277 with part two nominated as a separate piece, having its own catalogue number - Rh 282. Part two then became Neptune. There was then a whole bunch of recording - after which I scrapped both Pieces. It was a time of immense change which saw a new album length Uranus - Rh 277. A Vast floating colour scape of biliously competing gasses. Followed by a monumental new Neptune - now Rh 291. When it did finally come together, with Jim Tetlow’s Cover, it became a landmark of it’s kind in my music.

Cold Outer Worlds together with the album Em 27, Solar, would be my last overtly Cosmic Works. The Cosmic sensibility is a search for the sublime, which in the musical sense, calls for a deep Immersive listening. An informative strand of my work - which evolves into a search for a purely musical space. After these Cold Outer Worlds is a whole other world - my Inner Blue Horizon Group, of purely musical space. My life and my feelings were changing. This is a point of change. A Good place then to end what I had been calling the Golden Band.

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An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Electronic music, Em. - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source. By Convention Em.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 59 to 75 form my third ‘Group - a 3rd time division across my Genres. A band of gold to my eyes - hence the 'Golden Band Group.' This builds on both the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. They mark a particularly successful time for me. Each being a huge statement in itself - which I thought, lifted me higher than ever before - hence a ‘Band of Gold.’ Dr Tom Hewitt coined the phrase ‘Sea of Symphonies’ for it. Not Symphonies but symphonic in scale and intent. The albums that follow that, 76 to the end, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ - after the phrase’ blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge Group into the Inner and the Outer Blue Groups.

There are eight Em Albums in the Golden Band Group, Em 21 to Em 28, some of my most intense pieces.

[] Album Em 21, XAU, is where a confusion of shadows comes out of a harsh light.

[] Album Em 22, Modular reflex, is a series of soft, almost orchestral layerings.

[] album Em 23. Popenstrung, is a deep expression of string music, enfolded in the process.

[] Album Em 24, Integral Shining, is a Meta Music engaged with Maurine Anderson’s shapeshifter project.

[] Album Em 25, Einzstuck is a complex sheet of hammered out Metallique.

[] Album Em 26, The Coventry Canticles, are a set of three, Bell harmonic pieces, created for Coventry Cathedral.

[] Album Em 27, Solar - finds the vast thermal blooming of the Sun.

[] Album Em 28, Cold Outer Worlds - Icy cold music in two album length pieces, Uranus and Neptune.

Golden Band Group - Em []

[] DCM 059 -Em 21 - XAU []

DCM 060 - MSEP 14 - Symphony SEP
DCM 061 - MSEP 15 - Bela

[] DCM 062 -EM 22 - Modular reflex []

DCM 063 - MSEP 16 - Elegy

[] DCM 064 -Em 23 - Popenstrung []
[] DCM 065 -Em 24 - Integral Shining []
[] DCM 066 -Em 25 - Einzstuck []

DCM 067 - MPm 7 - Sn for Tu. Met. 2 & 3
DCM 068 - Phm 7 - Mech. Clock m. 3 - 5
DCM 069 - MSEP 17 - Never Not Ac. Ar.

[] DCM 070 -Em 26 - Coventry Canticles []

DCM 071 - MPm 8 - Inv. For Steel Vessel
DCM 072 - MPm 9 - Codal
DCM 073 - MSEP 18 - Curve

[] DCM 074 -Em 27 - Solar []
[] DCM 075 -Em 28 - Cold Outer Worlds []


The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planned from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.

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released September 19, 2012

Julian Broadhurst all sound sorces, composition and Mastering at Isabel Studio. Monumental cover by Jim Tetlow. .

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