Aphex Twin
BassCommunion
Biosphere
Boards Of Canada
Boris
Can
Coil
Earth
IEM
King Crimson
Kraftwerk
Neu!
Nurse With Wound
Pink Floyd
Sunn O)))
Tangerine Dream
Throbbing Gristle
UNKLE
Each other...
Sounds Like
To hear more of The Resonance Association, visit archive.org, where you can download four free mini-albums.
Clocking
in at just under 55 minutes, Failure Of The Grand Design
consists of nine songs, including a new version of live favourite
Electrolyte.
The prototype techno-goth-prog crossover
album covers all of the bases sonically: from the ambience of
Magnetophon and The Darkening Forest and the electronic
glitchtronica of God Is In Tiny Boxes to the powerful guitar
drones of Three Hundred And Sixty Degree View and the melodic
guitar battering that is I Have Seen The Future, And I Am Not In
It.
Already described by insiders as the duo's best work to date, the
album was recorded and produced during the first half of 2007 at the
band's HQ in South London.
Electrolyte and Left
Hemisphere have both been road tested at headlining gigs around
London. Just wait until you hear the album versions though...
If
you enjoy listening to Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Pure
Reason Revolution, Coil, Sunn o))), Continuum, Nurse With Wound,
Neu!, Can, Biosphere, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, or, in fact, and
one of TRA's four free download EPs, then you need to start saving up
your precious pennies for this album.
The album is available exclusively online from
Burning
Shed.
Daniel Vincent (Karma
Pilot, Onion Jack)
and Dominic Hemy (The 3rd
Fire) formed The Resonance Association as a vehicle with
which to drive their shared love of musical experimentation. The
music of The Resonance Association crosses into many different
musical territories. Fans of experimental electronica, space rock,
EBM, post-rock and progressive rock are all regular attendees to the
band's frequent gigs.
The duo's first release, the four-track
40-minute mini-album Volume
One, served up a broad sonic palette: drones, drum loops, and
heavily distorted instrumentation blended with atmospheric sound
synthesis and samples to make songs that take the listener on a real
musical journey.
When most acts would be basking in the
success of a completed album, the duo followed up with Appendix
One, another four-track collection, this time featuring three
live tracks (one from the rehearsal studio, two from the duo's
October 2006 appearance at "Immersion") and a different mix
of Volume
One's opener Fake Numbers Station.
Volume
Two followed soon after, in December 2006: four tracks of
ambient rock experimentation, found sounds and atmospheric samples.
Its counterpart, Appendix
Two, features a live improvisation
of what would become Volume
Two's Adrift Part One, in addition to three tracks left
over from the writing sessions.
In early 2007, the duo also
released a suite of four songs entitled Northern
Coastline Soundtrack, inspired by a remote listening post on the
Yorkshire Moors near Whitby in Northern England. These four songs
were released on a limited promotional CD with four other tracks -
three remixes and an early version of The Darkening Forest.
