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Preslav Literary School makes tape music. Please visit bandcamp for high quality, full length streams and free/donation downloads of all albums.
Live performance involves a broadcast of radiophonic sounds using dictaphones, old cassettes, an FM3 Buddha Machine, battered transistors and various other instruments/playback devices.
Preslav Literary School blogs at Dichterische Fragmente.
You can find Preslav on other networks:
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~last.fm
Press
"At times disturbing, definitely inquisitive, this composition requires attention, rewards lurking behind the corner if one’s patient enough." Massimo Ricci, Paris Transatlantic/Touching Extremes
"Not unlike William Basinski with his Disintegration Loops, Preslav Literary School focuses on creating something new and personal out of found sounds and dull, everyday happenings. A sense of wonder and amazement is conveyed through the sounds, and a sense of otherworldly significance is given to the simplest of actions. Thomas succeeds in making something fragile and exquisite out of tedium and monotony, and that is where the art of Beautiful Was The Time lies. This time truly is beautiful." Sputnik Music
"A haunting, subtle piece of sound art that sounds like it could have been emitted from some archaic dream-capturing device." When We Were Younger And Better
"A soft scatter from static and the voice loops, determined to be heard among the din and chirping birds. The wails of strangers hum in other rooms. Holy places, perhaps. Alchemists bleeding life into their sullen gold mourning as if that sacrifice might shed some magic into the mosaic of ghosts. Of orchids. Of language raised in unknowable reaches... Preslav (proper) was founded in God as much as it was in man and this is a piece wrought by a divining hand." Pinpoint Music
"This is a lovely, creaking, ruddy-complexioned brew of staggering dictaphone melancholy, the sound of a faraway alien orchestra slowly swallowed by warm, wet marsh-gas." alt.vinyl
"Preslav Literary School salvages tapes and reconstructs them. Pre-recorded sound is given life and vice-versa... optimistic, idealistic and dreamy, he desperately clings on to the new elements which arrive fully formed, escaped from his guidance, and persuades them to stay."By Chance Upon Waking
"Half way music, halfway aural investigation... the approach of Preslav Literary School results in rich textures and a specific sound that makes his tracks unique and memorable." Phlow Magazine
"...a fine balance between deconstructing itself and creating an audio-environmental soundscape that is fascinating and diverting." Ampersand Etcetera
Discography
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EC002: Preslav Literary School - Beautiful Was The Time (May 2009)
*NEW* Layered composition from over 100 salvaged and reconstructed cassette tapes. Featuring moments of ecstatic, neo-classical harmony and disintegrating analogue phrases, this album retains both Preslav Literary School's trademark live aural energy and meticulous process-led compositional technique.
Limited edition handmade CD available now via alt.vinyl. Includes original commissioned artwork, full picture CD, and inner notes on the composition process.
Free digital download available via vital new Paris-based label Elephant & Castles soon. Or here, for the time being. Shhh.
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GFDM013: Preslav Literary School & Fake Mistress - Radioarchiv (August 2008)
Improvised radio duet performed at Funkwelle FM, Berlin. Free download:archive.org
GFDM010: Preslav Literary School - pretext/context (March 2008)
Resonance FM London live session. Distribution in mainland Europe and mailorder purchase via Maquillage et Crustaces and in UK through alt.vinyl.
GFDM003: Preslav Literary School - Live At Tripswitches (April 2007)
Live Newcastle-Upon-Tyne performance. Limited edition hand-made CD-R sold out.
GFDM002: Preslav Literary School - Autumn Bricolage (Nov 2006)
Soundscapist composition set in English parkland. Free download available through Clinical Archives re-release. Limited edition hand-made CD-R no longer available.
Creative Commons
All work by Preslav Literary School is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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