- Artist
- Manchester Collective
- ReleaseProduct
- The Centre is Everywhere
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR38
- Release Date
- March 26, 2021
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Vinyl 1×LP
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‘The Centre is Everywhere’ is our first album. We created it in rather extraordinary circumstances, at a time when we were all slowly sinking into the banal dystopia of a pandemic-stricken world. Our lives, it felt, had slowed to a crawl. Normally we’re fuelled by our audiences, but touring was off the menu. So, we made this record. For us, it was personal.
In such an uncertain time, we wanted to play music that we loved. We ended up with a set of work written over a 120-year period – weightless and transcendent new music alongside Schoenberg’s anguished fin de siècle storytelling.
Edmund Finnis’ work in particular (the titular ‘The Centre is Everywhere’) is important to us. He’s a friend and a colleague, and it’s been a profound experience for us to live with this piece, to tour it, and to make the first ever recording. Somehow in the writing of it, Edmund seems to have prefigured the lack of certainty that has been one of the defining characteristics of this period. His music spins freely through time and space, wraithlike and beautiful.
Whilst recording both ‘Company’ by Philip Glass and ‘Transfigured Night’ by Arnold Schoenberg, we found ourselves drawn to a pervading sense of wildness and nature. The hypnotic rise and fall of the rhythms and textures in Glass’ quartet (presented here in an arrangement for string orchestra) feel quite separate to industrial, man-made structures and forms. Like Edmund’s work, these short movements feel out of time and cyclical, like eternally repeating tides or moon-phases.
Schoenberg’s masterpiece for string sextet opens on a moonlit forest scene, two lovers venturing through a bare, cold grove. We’ve tried to create a recording that paints the violent contrasts of this piece as vividly as possible, from the claustrophobic confessions that open the work through to the gleaming sound world of the second half. As the piece closes, our wooden, earthbound instruments seem to have been transmuted by the glamour and glow of Schoenberg’s music. We finish amongst the stars.
- 1 Company: I. 3:07
- 2 Company: II. 1:47
- 3 Company: III. 2:05
- 4 Company: IV. 2:26
- 5 The Centre is Everywhere 12:50
- 6 Transfigured Night, Op. 4 28:29
Manchester Collective
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- Artist
- Manchester Collective
- ReleaseProduct
- NEON
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR43LP
- Release Date
- June 23, 2023
- LP (special)
Bedroom Community
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- Artist
- Lyra Pramuk
- ReleaseProduct
- Delta
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR39
- Release Date
- September 24, 2021
- LP (special)
- CD
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- Artist
- HELIOCHRYSUM
- ReleaseProduct
- We Become Mist
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR37
- Release Date
- September 3, 2021
- LP (special)
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Sale
- Artist
- Valgeir Sigurðsson
- ReleaseProduct
- Kvika
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALREKI22
- Release Date
- March 12, 2021
- LP
- Download
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- Artist
- HELIOCHRYSUM
- ReleaseProduct
- Forbidden Structures
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALREKI23
- Release Date
- February 12, 2021
- Cassette
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- Artist
- Nadia Sirota
- ReleaseProduct
- Tessellatum
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR29CD
- Release Date
- August 18, 2017
- LP
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- Artist
- Valgeir Sigurðsson
- ReleaseProduct
- DISSONANCE
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR28CD
- Release Date
- April 21, 2017
- LP
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- Artist
- Ben Frost
- ReleaseProduct
- The Wasp Factory
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR25
- Release Date
- December 2, 2016
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Nadia Sirota & Nico Muhly
- ReleaseProduct
- Keep In Touch
- Label
- Bedroom Community
- Catalogue Number
- HVALUR26CD
- Release Date
- September 30, 2016
- CD
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- Artist
- Shabazz Palaces
- ReleaseProduct
- Robed in Rareness
- Label
- Sub Pop Records
- Catalogue Number
- SP1613
- Release Date
- October 27, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
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Pre-order
- Artist
- Recondite
- ReleaseProduct
- Hinterland
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI190CD
- Release Date
- November 11, 2013
- LP (special)
- Download
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- Artist
- Sega Bodega
- ReleaseProduct
- Dennis
- Label
- ambient tweets
- Catalogue Number
- at001
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- LP
- Download
- Pre-order
- Pre-order
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- Artist
- Howard Shore
- ReleaseProduct
- SE7EN - Original Motion Picture Score
- Label
- Waxwork
- Catalogue Number
- WW165
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
- LP (special)
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- Artist
- Sound Synthesis
- ReleaseProduct
- Orbital 108
- Label
- Orbital Mechanics
- Catalogue Number
- Orbital 108
- Release Date
- January 26, 2024
- LP (special)