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Lifetimes Ago

by Gordon Midgley

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Darren Douglas Danahy
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Darren Douglas Danahy Gordon Midgley is quickly becoming one of my favorites guitarists. When I first began to listen to his solo work, and music with Napier's Bones, my first impression was that of a "musician's musician" whose chops I was in awe of and whose fingers I would watch in his videos.
Gordon has proven himself to be not only a skilled musician, but an artist whom can paint with mood and texture and make what may seem like background music or ambient noise to some into an evocative, moving experience. Favorite track: lifetimes ago.
Dirk Radloff
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Dirk Radloff Gordon Midgley has choosen the mountain-view for a good reason. The absence of rhythm (with a surprising exception) and the free floating ideas, sometimes harsh and dissonant, sometimes majestic create loneliness. Loneliness can hurt you, but can also uplift your mind with Width, Majesty and Beauty. If you think you know Gordon's style wait until you have listened to this intense side-step. Favorite track: accumulation.
thePiecan
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thePiecan I once read on the back of a Talvin Singh album, that his home culture considers a Master as one whom has demonstrated readiness to now learn! The Gord 'Meisters' etudes on this album empathetically feel the artists pallet take over and embrace proceedings, whilst allowing the constructs of consciousness to retune & remorph. The Master's craft! My favorite track/moment so far, is the transition from the light of darkness to lasting impression! Favorite track: in tenebris lucem.
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mostly it is 06:30
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divided soul 02:10
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in tenebris 05:04
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accumulation 05:40
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arc en ciel 02:36
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yewbarrow 02:52
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about

Shortly after finishing 'The Fall of the House of Usher' I found myself falling into isolated silence for an extended period of time.

After three weeks or so I found myself being drawn to the hypnotic, repetitive, instrumental section of my music collection. Downtempo, beat-free, slow-to-develop and minimalist in nature.

Its impermanent permanence 'made sense' and before too long I returned to my electric guitar rig and the looper pedals in particular.

Expression through sounds when words were insufficient.
Raw, howling feedback, room-shaking bass drones and slow, lingering, plaintive themes - strange music but that's 'where I was at'.

I committed myself to capturing an honest spontaneity of spirit to avoid over-thinking or intellectualising the music.

A mode for a mood and away I go.

I'd start a piece in late afternoon with a blank page and aim to finish it the same evening.
Fingers on strings, feet on pedals, tubes aglow and microphones set to capture this mercurial moulding of sound, with a minimum amount of post-recording production.

From dark corners to open spaces with the smallest of movements assuming a greater significance.

'Rarely comest thou spirit of delight' : P.B.S.

Eleven tracks for over three-quarters of an hour of soul-music.

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released December 1, 2017

Instruments used on this album :

acoustic 6 & 12 string guitars
electric guitars
Fretted & fretless bass guitars

Hardware synths :
Korg Volca Keys & MS-20
Arturia Microbrute

Cover photo taken from summit of Jatunriti, Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru
G.W.Midgley 1996

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things" - A.S.

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Gordon Midgley Bradford, UK

Soundtracks to mind-movies we've all seen.

Napier's Bones' fellow traveller.

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