DOS MMXII

Preorder Dark Age (if you wish)

2012-02-24T14:12:00.000Z

Epic DOS Interview

2012-02-24T11:34:00.000Z

Part one of a two part extensive interview in online at Avant-garde Metal.com

Something In The Sky

2012-01-31T22:18:00.001Z

Dark Age In The Flesh

2012-01-29T13:45:00.002Z

Getting very excited about this now. This will be out on matte laminate heavyweight stock gatefold, 180g vinyl and a digipack CD version with a 15 page booklet. Download comes with a severed dragon's tail.

Laid To Rest Vinyl Landing

2012-01-20T15:42:00.001Z

Laid To Rest vinyl now available from Neuropa. This is music I wrote for a commission with my friend and collaborator Serena Korda. The record features amazing performances by Steve Noble (Æthenor), Alex Ward, Chlöe Herington (Chrome Hoof), The Medieval Baebes, Stephen O'Malley (Æthenor / Sunn O))) and Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver). This is mythical marching band music. Probably the closest thing to Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses that I've written for a while.

Grumbling Fur Vinyl Landing

2012-01-20T13:12:00.000Z

Comes in 180g clear and green vinyl. Download codes included. We'll be selling these at out show at The Servants Jazz Quarters in Dalston, 9th February. Or you can order them directly from Aurora Borealis.

Third Eye Band: Grumbling Fur

2012-01-14T11:38:00.001Z

Little Boots - Shake (Miracle Remix)

2011-12-24T12:24:00.000Z

Little Boots - Shake (Miracle Remix)

Choni The Circle Maker

2011-12-22T21:53:00.001Z

Taster for the film Choni The Circle Maker. Soundtrack by yours truly.

Choni The Circle Maker - Taster from Adam B Daniels on Vimeo.

The Norwegian National Opera

2011-12-04T12:44:00.001Z

In the flesh. Get it here.

GOOD LOVE Video

2011-11-18T16:58:00.000Z

Miracle - Good Love from House Anxiety on Vimeo.

Good Love single launch

2011-11-16T00:09:00.001Z

Guardian premieres new Miracle joint

2011-10-28T17:59:00.003+01:00

Miracle at Nail The Cross

2011-10-21T14:45:00.001+01:00

Tonight. Onstage 10.15...

New MIRACLE site

2011-10-05T12:58:00.000+01:00

Enter ye.

The Underneath

2011-09-13T16:24:00.000+01:00

The Underneath by Mothlite

Fur in the flesh

2011-09-13T14:52:00.002+01:00

Alex and I will be performing two Grumbling Fur sets. One in London (September 23rd) at St. Mary's Church in Stoke Newington, and one in Brighton (October 12th) at the Komedia. We'll probably have copies of "Furrier" on vinyl by then.

Mothlite sign to Kscope

2011-09-07T14:43:00.000+01:00

It's official. Dark Age due out early 2012.

Laid To Rest: The Procession

2011-09-07T12:55:00.000+01:00

Please join us for the finale of LAID TO REST. A project by Serena Korda for the Wellcome Collection. Witness the procession and burial of 500 commemorative bricks containing people's dust. Follow Daniel O'Sullivan's mythical marching band, dancers and heavy horses as they travel from Wellcome Collection to Brunswick Square Gardens, Bloomsbury, where a layer of bricks will be ceremoniously buried.

There will be 300 limited edition commemorative publications, including the LAID TO REST soundtrack 12" vinyl, to give away.

All music composed by Daniel O'Sullivan featuring The Medieval Baebes, Alex Ward, Steve Noble (Æthenor), Chloe Herington (Chrome Hoof), Matthew Parry, Francois Testory (Coil), Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))) & Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver).

Miracle vs Sup

2011-08-25T06:58:00.000+01:00

The Visitors EP

2011-08-13T15:44:00.000+01:00

Moth sighting

2011-08-13T02:03:00.001+01:00

Photographs by Jamie Robinson.

Grumbling Fur is OUTRE

2011-08-08T09:43:00.001+01:00

The Grumbling Fur album "Furrier" is out on Aurora Borealis Recordings. GF is myself and Alexander Tucker at the core. We recorded this a few years ago with Jussi Lehtisalo from Circle and Dave Smith from Guapo. I spent a long time editing and collaging this material with Antti Uusimaki (formerly of Mothlite). I was very much inspired by The Faust Tapes in the construction of this. The album features beautiful pen and ink illustrations by Alex and you can also order a T-shirt/CD combo which looks amazing too.

Click on the image to take you to the AB web shop.

Fur Landing

2011-07-07T13:17:00.001+01:00

After several years of procrastination the Grumbling Fur album is finally in production and will be released in June 2011 on Aurora Borealis Recordings. Grumbling Fur is a band involving myself, Alexander Tucker, Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord), Dave Smith (Guapo, Miasma & TCOHH) and Antti Uusimaki.

Æ unt Tucker in Quietus' top 50

2011-07-02T10:53:00.000+01:00

Mothlite exclusive

2011-06-08T18:41:00.000+01:00

Music Week presents an exclusive track from the forthcoming Mothlite album, Dark Age.

Behold, Something In The Sky.

Miracle vs New Music Express

2011-06-07T19:30:00.001+01:00

Need to know: They both like 'getting high'.

Eyeliner and Patchouli

2011-05-27T17:09:00.001+01:00

Cheeky Æthenor review in Jazzwise.

My Quietus Mixtape

2011-05-26T00:24:00.001+01:00

Memorial For Jhonn Balance

2011-05-03T13:59:00.001+01:00

My dear friend Ian Johnstone has organized a memorial plaque for Geoff by a Hawthorn tree in Cumbria. The plaque will read "Moon's Milk Spills From My Unquiet Skull And Forms A White Rainbow". All information and directions are on Ian's site. Have a look at his incredibly beautiful artwork while you're there.

Visitor on Vimeo

2011-04-29T20:34:00.001+01:00

Dazed vs Miracle

2011-04-27T12:55:00.000+01:00

Dangerous Minds endorse Miracle

2011-04-18T19:26:00.000+01:00

Miracle vs The Field

2011-04-18T16:34:00.000+01:00

Wire times three

2011-04-15T17:38:00.000+01:00

Three DOS related reviews in The Wire this month. Miracle, Ulver and new Alexander Tucker. All very complimentary.

Æ and the queen

2011-04-08T17:10:00.001+01:00

We are pleased to announce Æthenor's UK tour in June 2011. Lineup: Daniel O'Sullivan, Kristoffer Rygg, Steve Noble, Stephen O'Malley.

02-Jun-2011 Thursday / Bush Hall (London)
03-Jun-2011 Friday / The Kazimier (Liverpool)
04-Jun-2011 Saturday / Islington Mill (Manchester)
05-Jun-2011 Sunday / Classic Grand (Glasgow)
06-Jun-2011 Monday / The Fleece (Bristol)

DOS and JHS on WOTR

2011-04-08T16:51:00.001+01:00

In four parts.

Official video for The Visitor

2011-04-05T14:18:00.001+01:00

The Carillon of Loughborough

2011-03-22T12:18:00.000Z

Next O'Sullivan / Korda collaboration will feature a piece of music written for the Carillon of Loughborough. Kept in a tower 153 metres high, the carillon is an instrument that consists of at least 23 cast bronze cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord. A carillon is played by striking a keyboard the keys of which are sometimes called "batons" with the fists and by pressing the keys of a pedal keyboard with the feet. The keys mechanically activate levers and wires that connect to metal clappers that strike the bells, allowing the performer, the carillonneur, to vary the intensity of the note according to the force applied to the key.

Viva megalomania.

Ikonika vs Miracle

2011-03-17T01:48:00.001Z

Fluid Window

2011-02-21T10:11:00.000Z

Available for pre-order now!

Æ vs Quietus

2011-02-18T12:20:00.000Z

World in white

2011-02-17T09:43:00.000Z

Ulver rehearsals, February MMXI, Oslo.

February MMX

2011-02-16T22:49:00.000Z

February MMX is a pop song from the new Ulver album, 'Wars Of The Roses'. Get acquainted or infuriated.

February MMX by ramble_on

Miracle in London

2011-02-14T17:53:00.001Z

Stop the press! Steve and I are playing two shows in London...

23.02.11 Hoxton Bar and Kitchen w/Darkstar
24.02.11 Russian Club Studios w/Blondes

We'll also be shooting a video for The Visitor. Send in your pitches. We won't use them, but it could be funny.

Adeptus re-imagines The Visitor

2011-02-04T12:16:00.000Z

Milk Factory album of the month

2011-02-02T16:48:00.002Z

Fennesz greets a visitor

2011-02-01T14:46:00.001Z

Liminal hymn

2011-01-27T18:49:00.001Z

Kind words from the Liminal.

Previous Æthenor albums have featured symbols on the front, pyramids and crosses and that sort of thing, which could quite reasonably lead you to infer an interest in the occult. When combined with the fact that the group includes members of Sunn O))) and Ulver, you’d be forgiven for divining some black metal tendencies; however, as their last release Faking Gold And Murder also featured David Tibet, you might equally expect the mystical folk influence that he brings to Current 93. But musically, you’d be hard placed to put the records in this context. It’s perhaps for the best then that Æthenor’s new album for VHF Records, En Form for Blå, dispenses with much of the symbolic baggage I’ve mentioned. The album’s graphic design is markedly different, with a woman’s face picked out of from a stark blue background: as well as being the name of the famous Oslo venue where the album was recorded (and recorded very crisply, it has to be said), Blå translates from the Norwegian as “blue”. If it weren’t for the font, you could mistake it for a Kim Hiorthøy work. And that name, along with that venue, perhaps give better clues to what this sounds like.

En Form for Blå is another superb genre-defying suite of experimentalism from four free-thinking musicians: Stephen O’Malley, Daniel O’Sullivan, Kristoffer Rygg, and Steve Noble. Both in terms of instrumentation and approach, it recalls those more regular Blå residents and Hiorthøy acquaintances Supersilent. Like them, Æthenor utilise Fender Rhodes, improvised drumming, and deep bass drones, with live processing keeping the sound mix varied and unpredictable, the individual instruments surfacing briefly before being dragged back down into the dense sonic stew. The playing is restrained and responsive, maintaining a palpable sense of tension throughout; much like last year when I saw Stephen O’Malley and Steve Noble playing together at Cafe Oto, when Noble strained at the tether of the guitarist’s intense textural focus.

And if you do want a drummer to focus on texture as opposed to rhythm, the esteemed UK improviser Noble is indeed your man – as you’d expect from someone who’s played with the likes of Derek Bailey, his repertoire extends far, far beyond just shaping the beat, enabling him to engage in more meaningful dialogue in such a setting. The first track ‘Jocasta’ begins with electrical whine, and he meets it with long, ringing cymbal tones, before staccato bursts of static necessitates some dampened metallic sounds, like he’s engaging it in swordplay. His waves of cymbals add sparkling, shimmering overtones to the twinkling Rhodes melodies of ‘One Number Of Destiny In Ninety Nine’ (as you can see, Æthenor have also dispensed with their enigmatic refusal to give tracks titles).

Like at the aforementioned Oto gig, Malley is playing against type for much of this set, though he doesn’t so much sit in the shadows, as actually create the shadows. His deep bass rumble and amp hum on “Vyomgami Plume” are malevolently portentous, like the tremors which prefigure major seismic activity. When those earthquakes finally arrive they appear with shattering force, and just at the point when you begin to think the danger has passed. The ambient, electric-era Miles exploration that is “Laudanum Tusk” is cleaved in two by a section of hideous distortion, as if hit by the twisted metal force of a speeding train that has been shaken from the tracks, collecting all four band members as it goes. Aftershocks become increasingly infrequent, and “Something To Sleep Is Still” sees the landscape slowly re-emerging through dust-clouds. It becomes increasingly clear that while Æthenor may appear to have changed, they have in fact lost none of their magic.

Scott McMillan

Æ in the outside

2011-01-27T08:44:00.001Z

Wire Review February 2011

Uncut Review February 2011

Laid To Rest

2011-01-26T17:59:00.002Z

I am currently composing music for the next visual colossus by Serena Korda. It's sounding a bit like the Omen.

The band will be as follows:

Daniel O'Sullivan: Piano & Voice
Alex Ward: Clarinet
Chloe Herington: Bassoon
Matthew Parry: Trombone
Steve Noble: Percussion
Katharine Blake: Voice
Bev Lee Harling: Voice
Esther Dee: Voice
Sarah Kayte Foster: Voice
Melpomeni Kermanidou: Voice

Korda's work is inspired by the commercialisation of waste in Victorian London, in particular the vast dust heaps which dominated the skylines at the top of Gray’s Inn Road. Immortalised by Charles Dickens in 'Our Mutual Friend', the dust heaps supported a wide range of industries including the making of bricks. Mud from the brick fields of Somers Town was mixed with the ash, cinders and rubbish from the dust heaps, recycling the discarded detritus and dirt of London into the material from which the expanding city was built.

The piece has been commissioned by the Wellcome Collection and is entitled "Laid To Rest". Serena has been collecting dust from various sources (from the organ at the Royal Albert Hall to Neapolitan catacombs). The dust is then poured into a clay mixture and fired into bricks, each brick is independently letter-pressed with a number and place of origin. The bricks will be the centre of a live ritual involving musick (courtesy of yours truly) and dance. There will be two performances at the Wellcome Collection (dates to be published soon) and a funeral procession through London concluding in the burial of these 500 bricks in Regents Park.

Serena's blog is here.

A miscellaneous list of contents:

Cow fur cuttings
Cheddar from Iceland
Moon dust
Two Ladybirds
Bobby hair grip
Almost like soot
Old leather
Petals
Matchstick used ends that smell nice
Red carpet fibers
Fly carcass
Persian wool, (from Shiraz)
Saw dust made by children cutting wood to make moving toys
Lace wings
Spiders
Bone
Orangutan hair
Anaconda skeleton
Flakes of bone
Bent rusty nail
Daddy long legs and cobwebs
Fluff
Biscotti crumbs
Cinema ticket
Coffee grinds
Decaying titles to slides
Rose petals from Cinderella
Twiglets
Perspex
Cake crumbs
Human remains from the Fontanelle Cemetery
Whippet hair
Pickled skin
Nostril trimmings
Astroturf
Jigsaw pieces
Finger nails
Paperclip
Gold Dust
Tailors chalk
Dust Bunny
Pigeon faeces
4500 upholstered chairs
Fake nails
Bits of ribbon
Leaves
Iron filings
Woofle dust
Gorilla
Tiger

DOS vs Steve Davis

2011-01-24T14:59:00.000Z

I've been invited to play records on Steve Davis' 'Interesting Alternative Show' on Phoenix FM tonight. I'll be playing a mixture of music I've been working on and music I've been listening to. You can stream it here. From 10 to midnight.

Miracle moves

2011-01-20T00:27:00.000Z

"Fluid Window", the first record by myself and Steve Moore will be out on House Anxiety Records on February 28th. You'll be able to pick it up here.

Miracle - The Visitor by steve moore

Adeptus vs Miracle

2011-01-18T22:55:00.001Z

Adeptus remixes The Visitor by Miracle.

He makes videos for his remixes... Deeply disturbing. Don't know how he got James Spader involved.

Ulver: Critical Geography Tour Part I

2011-01-17T00:45:00.003Z

22.03.11 Koko, London (UK) w/Virus

26.03.11 Trabendo, Paris (France)

27.03.11 Incorso, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

28.03.11 Uebel & Gefaehrlich, Hamburg (Germany)

29.03.11 Matrix, Bochum-Langendreer (Germany)

30.03.11 Substage, Karlsruhe (Germany)

31.03.11 Z7, Basel (Switzerland)

01.04.11 Backstage Hall, Munich (Germany)

02.04.11 Madonna dell'Albero, Ravenna (Italy)

03.04.11 Szene, Vienna (Austria)
05.04.11 Eskulap, Poznan (Poland)
06.04.11 K17, Berlin (Germany)
07.04.11 Majestic, Bratislava (Slovakia)

08.04.11 Beatpol, Dresden (Germany)

09.04.11 Biebob, Antwerp (Belgium)

10.04.11 Colosaal, Asschaffenburg (Germany)

21.04.11 Nosturi, Helsinki (Finland)

In Orgone

2011-01-16T13:07:00.002Z

Photos taken in Orgone Studios, London to accompany a feature in Ritual (some Italian music rag).

Credits here.

Dave Cooley on Mastering

2011-01-15T11:09:00.000Z

Did a fine job of the Miracle record. Coming out in Febraury.

Æ review in AQ

2011-01-15T10:45:00.001Z

Latest record from this ever shifting sonic collective, still comprised of the core duo of Stephen O'Malley (SUNNO))), KTL, etc.) and Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo, Mothlite), although this time the group is rounded out by Kristoffer Rygg, aka Garm from Ulver, plus percussionist Steve Noble.

En Form For Bla is the result of several performances in Norway earlier this year, and finds the group shedding much of their previous heaviness in favor of a sound much more haunting and abstract, spaced out and introspective, the guitars less murky and muddy and massive, and more spidery and ethereal and minimal, laying out deep low end thrum and keening upper register shimmer. Rygg operates like a dub producer, electronically treating the sounds, while adding some of his own, the result is a constantly shifting landscape of drift and doom and pulsing heaviness and whirling almost free jazz sounding sonic exploration.

The big surprise here is Noble, who is all over the record, without overplaying, letting the record remain unstructured and abstract, while still moving it beyond mere static ambient improv, whether it's scattered bits of subtle skitter, thick clouds of shimmery cymbal or pulsing rhythmic pound, the band tend to creep and crawl, but when they do let loose it borders on Bitches Brew style jazz psychedelia, albeit a bit more blackened.

The overall sound is quite atmospheric and soundtracky, the melodies subtle, but the feelings they evoke not so much, stirring up dark clouds of sinister brood, and epic soaring cinematic mesmer, occasionally slipping into some minimal krautrock throb, like on the mesmerizing "Vivarium", and sounding a bit like a more low end heavy Necks (or maybe Supersilent), and then lurching into some giallo style mood music, on "Vyomagami Plume" and sounding like a deconstructed Goblin, a gently chaotic assemblage of heaving bass and twisted keyboards, of clattery percussion, and spaced out electronics, but all deftly woven into something moving and emotional and darkly compelling. Fantastic stuff.

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/

Miracle vs Escobedo

2011-01-13T11:41:00.001Z

Fine work by Jacob Escobedo.

Wolves at the Opera

2011-01-13T09:51:00.000Z

En Form For Blå

2011-01-13T09:35:00.001Z

Æthenor's En Form For Blå on vhf records is now in orbit.