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War Skies Over London

by julian Broadhurst

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War Skies Over London - Rh 322 28:47
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Ludwig Van - Rh 300 36:44
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War Skies Over London - 'Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, MSEP 20 - my 83rd album. A piece for Six Trombones and electronics - and, a companion piece - ‘Ludwig Van’ for Cello.

War Skies over London - Rh 322. This Marks a difficult little transition for me. I’ve got the Bonecircle with me for a short while and the Beriom pieces are in the can, much less mastered - the ones I had imagined so far that is. I wanted to do more with theTtrombones but not more Beriom pieces. Eventually a pattern emerged, not unlike the Beriom pieces but much attuned from the conventional sound of the Trombone - much ‘Fatter’ as the jazz men say. To a point, I thought, like the wailing of an air raid siren, a warning, a warning sky ? The Icon of all War Skies is that over London - Gentlemen, we have a notion. A sounding of the ominous, the awestricken fear - the of air war over London. It isn’t programmatic music, nor is it film music. All my music tests the ideal of concert music, where deliberate listening for the sake of listening is the intention for the work. Your chair and my music is all in all - be that in a concert hall or in your home, as a concert. An act of Concerted listening - even alone, where my music is with you and graciously, in notion, we run together. This piece is an end in itself.

Ludwig Van - Rh 300. An electronic sketch for Cello - light and shade, dynamics et al, just after the ‘Magic Lilly music.’ I placed it here on MSEP 20 with War skies - and people came to see it a sort of second movement to it. It is akin to it as a sort of landscape, sombrely, after the raid. I’m happy for that - but it is just a coincidence.

I then returned then to the untold possibilities of Variations on Berio - only this time for Five and six flutes and I begin nine further pieces of exploration. Twelve in all over seven Albums. War Skies was the transition that caused that future. Marking the time between - the conception of Beriom as an album - and the development of the Beriom series. Some people were very kind like Dear Markus I Cite below.


“I love it, Julian ! Very massive, as music must be !” Markus Wenninger - German Experimental Wind player - Dear Friend and important collaborator, on many projects - including his own version of the Beriom series. Twitter 16.06.2020.


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 Music for Strings Electronics and Percussion, MSEP a genre of Electroacoustic composition. By Convention MSEP.

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 76 to 95 form my fourth ‘Group’ - a 4th time division across my Genres, my Inner Blue 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. My Golden Band Group that mark a particularly successful time for meThe 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 area into the Inner and the Outer Blue Groups. So the Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Horizon – or Inner Blue Group.

There are three MSEP albums in the Inner Blue Group - MSEP 19 to 21.

[] Album MSEP 19 Assign is a four-disc box of music distantly after James Saunders.

[] Album MSEP 20 is ‘War Skies Over London’ an evocation of war, of the Air War over London.

[] Album MSEP 21 Bela Whispers is the concluding part of the Bela Triptych for the evanescence of ‘string group’.


Inner Blue Group – MSEP []

DCM 076 - Em 29 - Auda

[] DCM 077 -MSEP 19 - Assign 1 - 4 []

DCM 078 - Phm 8 - Deep Pink
DCM 079 - Em 30 - Haus music
DCM 080 - Em 31 - Magic lily music
DCM 081 - MPm 10 - 1st and 2nd Da Su for Mp
DCM 082 - Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3 (6 Tromb.)

[] DCM 083 -MSEP 20 - War Skies Over London []

DCM 084 - Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7 (4 & 5 Fl)
DCM 085 - Em 32 - Beriom 8
DCM 086 - Em 33 - Beriom 9
DCM 087 - Em 34 - Beriom 10
DCM 088 - Em 35 - Untitled
DCM 089 - Em 36 - Rothko Triptych
DCM 090 - Phm 11- Sound Prints
DCM 091 - MPm 11 - Kontact Dance
DCM 092 - Dm 13 - 2nd & 3rd Inv for Dj.
DCM 093 - Em 37 - Ober
DCM 094 - Dm 14 - 4th Inv Dj - Dm Sn no. 8

[] DCM 095 -MSEP 21 - Bela Whispers []


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

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Julian Broadhurst Realisation, Mastering
Cover by Tetlow and Broadhurst

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