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Virtual Live

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The DCM Collaborative music, Cm Edition
The 21 Collaborations - Index A - U

[F] D’juil
[F11] Virtual Live.

[F 11] - Virtual Live - a contradiction in terms really - or maybe not. It was a performance - for a very small audience in a large studio space in London. What you hear is us 'Virtually live' - recording an 11th album - live. Slightly remastered in April 2016 - still with the same immortal cover but with the lost 3rd part of the recording included now for good measure - The complete experience. So in answer to those people who had asked - yes indeed there was a 3rd piece. Rich in its minima and Avant Gardism Part 3 is quite an aural challenge to the first two - but it dose belong - and now you can hear it.

I honestly think this Album is a revelatory piece in our work - we are so focused. My percussion is complex and sustaining and David's Cello soars with a devastating Classical Energy - born of centuries - of the intensity and focus of music studied and loved - with his own fine Artistry and weapon like edge ! . We are both very lucky to have done this. We present it with great delight.

[F10] - Tapippio. Two 'Dancing Pizzicato' pieces for two Cellos - and the 'two' Davids of the cover. In the first of these - Pizarcho - an amazingly simple figure of only a few notes interlaces between the Cellos - turning cartwheels of complexity in Rhythm, Timing and emergent variation. The second - 'Tapippio' - dresses up the complexity in a flood of repeated notes. In a spirit of investigation - continuing D'juil's pursuit of the new and the unexpected in Contemporary Cello repertoire.

We also thought to take this opportunity of the remaster to add a bonus disc - a new D'juil album - on an old theme - in an old place as it were - making a New old album now - a Double. So - not album 21 but 10B 2016 ! 'Pizarcho Papippio' - a surprisingly bizarre twist on an old friend with all the percussive intrigue and Cellistic Strangeness you would expect from us.

[F9] Strata - At almost 3 hours in length this 6 movement suite for Cello and recording studio is perhaps our most demanding project - asking a great deal of the listener - and testing the notion of music for a Cello to the point of Destruction. Each successive movement adds a whole new depth to the complexity of the presentation - hence 'Strata' - in the Geological sense of laying over what went before. In the musical sense - taking the stage we have reached and running with that. Each movement carries the name of a Modernist hero - as it were a homage to influence - but in no sense a musical portrait. It begs an oblique reference to Klaus Schulze's Album 'X' [ten] - in its taking six heroes and presenting six pieces was a big influence on me as a youth - I can't doubt it was in my mind. Jim Tetlow said whilst creating the cover for me - is this your ten

D’juil Has three phases of eight albums each and one more of 3 and five Arkiv albums to boot. The first and the second phase are contiguous in that. Almost the whole of 2011 was spent in close continuous work. Between them though is a short period elsewhere. Working with my friend, mathematician and music theorist [G] Johannas Schafer on a couple of projects for the DCM label. In May 2011 Jim Tetlow and I recorded our 13th album - Tredecadent Voices - ending my fear of a 13th. And then Discovering a a series oddly alien tapes by [H] The Flying Sauces, Publishing them and partying hard with them. I never had more fun. Then Back in Earnest to the very serious world of D’juil and a second phase of eight difficult albums.

[F8] Damian - The last album in this concentrated ‘First Phase’ of our music - our first 8 albums in a continuous and consecutive act of production - living between his Leicester studio and my Isabel Studio in Derbyshire.

Damian Mark Boland 1980 - 2011 was a friend of David’s since school A singular creative mind - Artist, poet and filmmaker he had written 3 novels by 16. I became fascinated by him and wanted to make a piece about him.

Our 5th double album [as we began to pave the world with cello] - i really is two separate concepts. The first piece of the set, a ‘Music for Damian’- is a growlingly immediate, punctuative, pointillistic and jagged music - in a performance constructed between us - particularly as an Elegy to his Friend. The Second piece ‘Damian’ is a music with him, that is, with his Voice. In their twenties Damian and David produced a series of Art Films, one of which, a Mock interview about a fictional electronic game, gave us the audio for ‘Damian’ - now as a fragmented continuo of broken speech, where his speech becomes rhythm and pitch.

The cover - another masterpiece from Jim Tetlow - from a photograph by David - shows Damian in a deeply darkened world emerging from a lighted ally - making a odd cross of light behind him - “Very Strange” [The Beatles - penny Lane].

[F7] Emma - The first of our really difficult albums. D’juil was morphing into a completely studio based experimental duo. Here snatches of melody phase against one another in a slow burning meditation on timing. We sat for hours in a darkened studio with stop watches and log tables. It takes its time - it takes so much time - far more time than it says on the page -bout 4 years by our reckoning. We are painting with sound and endless representation. This is total emersion music - a meditation on time.

The Emma in question is Emma Araya Eacock - beautiful wife of my beautiful friend Jorge and mother of Julian, Lucas and Flori. Julian their severely disabled son was named after me - “because I had “all the qualities he would want in a son.” I dedicated my 3rd symphony to them - Sinphonia Vitae - symphony of Life - especially for Julian, the Lamb who can never really grow up. Emma - a nurse, got me into hospital, when I was seriously ill - this album is in thanks for that and ties us to the that Symphony.

The Cover is another Wood and wire piece by Jim Tetlow - for our dedication to the advancement of Cello music.

[F6] Winter Light - ‘Le Grand Ostinato.’ Our most Classical piece to date and yet - a hugely experimental and difficult piece - that I asked of David. The man in black hit back. He is more than equal to my Imagination. Together we are a new force in Contemporary Cello. The magnificently timeless cover, a photograph by Jim Tetlow, from his parent’s home in Scotland, I think captures the scale of the music within. It is monumental in our work.

[F5] For That We Love - four meditations for Cello and layered tape. For the things and people we have loved - four lamentations then: ‘A loss - A sigh - A farewell - A Regret’ - a cycle of deepening feeling. We commit our love for life, for our forever. David was the voice of Lament and I its echo. The cover - possibly the greatest we ever used - is another work of genius by Jim Tetlow with me sat beside him as he worked - a Cubism for cello/ of a cello. Now it and the music must speak for themselves.

[F4] I Heard a Rumour - A gently evolving Kaleidoscope of colour. The wonderful cover by Jim Tetlow really seems to feel the music - and conversely the music the picture. The cover is a work of Genius - Jim did so much for us and for many of the DCM Collaborations. This then is us, locked in the studio working out the parts, the timing and the layering - two vast pieces on a double album. The Album’s title - ‘I heard a Rumour’ names the first piece, disc 1 and is a line from the ‘Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Piece ‘Arabian knights. The second piece then takes for its title the consecutive line from the song ‘What have you done to her.’ The album is dedicated to my hero the fabulous Siouxsie Sioux.

[F3] Exhibition music - Our seminal third album - and an ocean depth of Cello musics - deep furious and unforgiving. Our first of many doubles - I say this is the album where we really came together as a force in contemporary cello.

David created a ribbon of sound for an exhibition - and we based the music of this album on that. I had wanted to create music like this for along time. The cello is so redolent of the m
Dedicated to Jacqueline Cheval and Victoria Bourne
usic we both adore - from Hydan to Henze - it isn’t really found in any other kind of music. In this I say we joined our heroes - somewhere at the back. Post-production and mastering by julian Broadhurst - Cover photograph of David Dhonau by Abi Harrison - the concentration on his face like generations of Cellists before him. Cover Design by Jim Tetlow and Julian Broadhurst [T & B the design partnership]

Abi Harrison - www.lensculture.com/abigail-harrison

The album is Dedicated to Jacqueline Cheval and Victoria Bourne

[F2] Projections - The one bizarrely with the stripe of pipes cover by Jim Tetlow with presumably our name projected on to them. We hit the classical world running with this outing for David’s Cello and my Violin - in the same world as the first but more overtly classical and the clouds have cleared. The title is an oddity - we were sat in a bar just across from a railway, not my favourite place but we were killing time. David was talking about a project he was involved with using projections. I lost the thread but that word stuck. It is as though here the music finds three Projections of itself onto three very different Surfaces with notably different outcomes.

[F1] -There we were, David and I - in cramped little studio space upstairs in his house, surrounded by his former Art Career - I also have a background in Art, if a little more publicly, in my case. So - we found ourselves with his Cello [Cleo] and my Violin [Violett],
and doubling the parts we became - at this instance - a string Quartet - with a layering of all sorts plugged into something else. Two pieces named for our friend flautist - vocalist Ola and her Daughter. We proudly and stubbornly retain her as the cover star of the album as did ‘The Smiths’ with their cover stars. We weren’t quite sure where we were going with this but leave it to us - we would become my largest collaboration at 28 albums - many double and even triple, with five Arkiv and bootleg albums. The 25th - gloriously - with renowned Italian Concert Flautist Sara Minelli - at the said W studio in Derby.


In 2009, just before his move to Leicester [after our 10th album], Jim Tetlow introduces me to two fabulous people that I would have long collaborations with over the rest of my career - Flautist & vocal Artist Maureen Anderson - and Cellist David Dhonau.

That’s not quite how it happened. I was waiting for a bus at a crossroads - mid summer - the sun was high - the fields were parched, as was I. A figure in black came out of the haze toward me - he was carrying a case and his lapel badge read Cellist. He doffed his hat and I mine. It was the start of a bad novel but everybody needs a foundation myth. He said - chewing his cigar - “you going my way ?” And indeed I was.

Amazingly he lived just around the corner from Ola and Jim - making up an eternal triangle - the Heart of the ‘Leicester Underground’ as they styled themselves. Jim and I as [B] Tetlow and Broadhurst were already up to our 12th album [] Promise to return. Joanna Geldard and I - as [C] Etuda - had but two. Some strange Kats and I were recording as [D] ‘Revenge of the Umbrella People’ and Maureen Anderson and I had begun our work as [E] Anderson Morning with the Eponymous [] Anderson morning.


- D’juil - the albums -

[] Ola - [] projections - [] Exhibition music (2) - [] I Heard a Rumour (2) - [] For That We Love (2) - [] winter Light - [] Emma (2) - [] Damian (2) - [] Strata (3) - [] Tappipio (2) - [] - Gargamelle - [] Bebop - [] Helios - [] In Colour Live - [] Old Grey Live - [] Elemental String Music (2) - [] Belladonna - [] Plateau Live (2) - [] Vingt - [] Later Blue (2) - [] PRecital - [] In Nomine - [] Textures on an English Ground - [] Trio in Five Parts (2) - [] Mir A & B (2) - [] Open your Eyes (David Dhonau Solo) - [] Breathe First A, B & C (2).
Arguably live [Arkiv] - [] Witness for the Prosecution [Arkiv] - [] Art House London Live [Arkiv] - [] Sunrise Festival Live [Arkiv] (3) - [] Documentary Tapes [Arkiv] (2). [46 Discs].


- The Collaborations in Chronological Order -

[A] Huddersfield Impromptu - with the Huddersfield Improvisation group - 1 album : [B] Tetlow & Broadhurst - with Jim Tetlow - 19 Albums + 3 Arkiv albums : [C] Etuda - with Choreographer Dr Joanna Geldard - 2 albums : [D] Revenge of the Umbrella People - 1 album + 2 Arkiv albums : [E] Anderson Morning - with flutist vocalist Maureen Anderson - 5 albums : [F] D'juil - with Cellist David Dhonau - 28 albums + 5 Arkiv Albums : [G] julian Broadhurst & composer Johannas Schafer - 2 albums : H] The Flying Saucers - 5 albums : [I] OLArJ - with Flautist vocal Artist Ola Szmidt and David Dhonau - 1 album : [J] OLAU - with Ola Szmidt - 4 albums : [K] JJM With Markus Wenninger & Jurica Jelic - 1 album: [L] Wenninger Broadhurst - With woodwind specialist Markus Wenninger - 15 albums : [M] Anjelic - with Jurica Jelic and Marcus Beuter - 2 albums : [N] Konnyek - with pianist Maria Vesic - 5 albums : [O] Poet Reg Keeling - Audio Book - 1 album : [P] Alisian - with English Harpist Alison Katy - 1 album : [Q] Lords of The Dance - with Percussionist Walt Shaw- 2 albums : R] National Steel Blue with Burnt Paw - 1 album : [S] Ensemble Et Au with Jim Tetlow and David Dhonau - 2 albums : [T] Accortumn - 1 album : [U] Sonn Jaa - with Composer Sonja Grossner - 1 album.


- The Complete DCM Collaboration -

- [A] - HUDDERSFIELD IMPROMPTU : [] Three Undirected Pieces (2007).

- [B] - TETLOW & BROADHURST 1 - 10. I Meet Jim Tetlow at Bambu club Leicester 11th July 2007, performed there together 18th July as T& B : [] Live at Bambu (July 2007) - [] Qua - [] Orn
[] Under Normandy Bridges - [] Bridges above Us - [] Live in a Drum Group ( break) [] Koncertat - [] Sn for Solo Vn and Electronics - [] Better Than Even (Break) [] The Measure of Autumn (late 2008).

- [C] - ETUDA :1 & 2. I meet Chorographer Joanna Geldard early 2009 : [] Intonation W - [] Percussion W.

- I Meet David Dhonau and Maureen Anderson 2009 -

- [D] - REVENGE OF THE UMBRELLA PEOPLE 1 - 3 with Johannas Schafer ( Dr C) : [] Live at Pineapple Peppermint (released 2011) - [] Voration 1 - [] Voration 2 ( released 2021 in my Arkiv Box).

- [E] - ANDERSON MORNING 1 with Maureen Anderson : [] Anderson Morning (2009).

Tetlow & Broadhurst : 11 - 12 : [] Celestation - [] Promise to Return (August-September 2009).

- [F] - D'juil with Cellist David Dhonau : 1 - 8 : [] Ola (2010) - [] Projections - [] Exhibition music (Break) [] I heard a Rumour - [] For That We Love - [] Winter Light (Break) - [] Emma (spring 2011) - [] Damian.

- [G] - julian Broadhurst & Johannas Schafer 1 & 2 : [] Dialogue with friends (June 2010 (pub. 2018) - [] Symphony C (Published 2021).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 13 : [] Tredecadent Voices (May 2011).

- [H] - THE FLYING SOURCES 1 - 5 - [] Out from Venus - [] Home to Venus - [] Live at Area 51 - [] Saucer Blues - [] Cup without a Saucer (All Discovered 2011+).

D'juil : 9 - 15 : [] Strata - [] Tapippio - [] Virtual Live - [] Gargamelle
[] Bebop - [] Helios - [] In Colour Live (December 2011).

- [I] - OLArJ - with Ola Szmidt & D. Dhonau: [] The Cord of Life (February 2012).

- [J] - OLAU : 1 - 4 - with Ola Szmidt : [] Cordeal - [] Honeybees - [] Bride By Her Bachelors, Even - [] Sztriped Ice (All March 2012).


- The Break with Leicester 2012 -


Founding Music with Markus Wenninger - Jurica Jelic - Marcus Beauter and Maria Vesic - on my JJM Label.

- [K] - JJM With Markus Wenninger & Jurica Jelic : [] Breeze (August 2012).

- [L] - WENNINGER BROADHURST 1 - 3 - With Markus Wenninger : [] First Reply to Markus - [] Decollement Horizon - [] Rohre (August 2012).

- [M] - ANJELIC 1 - with Jurica Jelic and Marcus Beuter : [] Study no. 1 - Angel.

Anderson Morning 2 : [] Cabaret Dada (released September 2012).

D'juil 16 : [] Leicester Old Grey Live (released September 2012).

Anjelic 2 : [] Blood and the soil (October 2012).

- [N] - KONNYEK 1 - 3 with Marina Vesic: [] Sn for Pn & Percussion no. 1 - [] Sn for Pn & Percussion no. 2 ‘In Tears’ - [] Lady Blue Black (Oct. 2012). .

- [O] - REG KEELING - Audio Book : [] A Winters Journey (Oct. 2012).

Wenninger Broadhurst 4 & 5 : [] Red Frame Blue (January 2013)
[] Avatar.

Tetlow & Broadhurst 14 : [] OBAH (February 2013).

Konnyek 4 : [] Sonate Concret (February 2013).

- [P] - ALISIAN - with English Harpist Alison Katy : [] Elvaston meadows (March 2013).

- [Q] - LORDS OF THE DANCE 1 & 2 with Percussionist Walt Shaw : [] Music for Metal Percussion - [] Electric Surface (Both May 2013).

D’juil Arkiv : [] Sunrise Festival Live (Aug 2013) [Desk release 2022].

Wenninger Broadhurst 6 : [] Lollapolusa - The lost Hour (Sep. 2013).

D'juil 17 : [] Elemental String Music (October 2013).

Wenninger Broadhurst 7 : [] Black Star Music (December 2013).

Konnyek 5: [] Horizon (2013).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 15 : [] Venus & Adonis (June 2014).

D'juil 18 - 20: [] Belladonna - [] Arkiv - Art London Live (August 2014) - [] Arkiv - Art London Live [released 2022] - [] Plateau - [] Vingt (June - October 2014).

Wenninger Broadhurst 8 - 10: [] The Unquestioned Answer - [] Virtual Glass - [] With Wisest Sorrow (November 2014).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 16 & 17: [] Frozen - [] Sirius A (late 2014/January 2015).

Anderson Morning 3 -: [] AM3 (May 2015).

- [R] - NATIONAL STEEL BLUE - with Burnt Paw : [] Blues Suite 1 & 2 (June 2015).

Wenninger Broadhurst 11 & 12: [] Neble A
[] Neble B & C (March 2016).

- [S] - EMSEMBLE ET AU 1: [] Kornu (January 2017).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 18 and 19 : [] Improbable Live
[] Bau Out (from Kornu session January 2017).

- [T] - ACCORTUMN - with D. Dhonau & M. Sole and Mike Sole :
[] Autumn - Winter (January 2017).

D'juil 21 & 22 : [] Later Blue - [] PRecital (early 2017).

- [U] - Sonn JAA - with Composer Sonja Grossner : [] Wind and Whatever (October 2017).

Ensemble Et Au 2 : [] One Flew Over (July 2018).

D'juil 23 & 24: [] In Nomine - [] Textures on an English Ground (Autumn 2018).

Wenninger Broadhurst 13: [] Windhaus for Anna - in the wake of Beriom(October 2018).

Anderson Morning 4 - [] They Make Music [An Opera for voices]. On my MSEP Discography (2019).

S'ra-D'juil 25 : [] Trio in Five Parts (2019).

Wenninger Broadhurst 14 & 15: [] Konnyek - for amplified Duet - [] Music in the Wake of Konnyek - Wenninger Solo (August 2020).

D’juil 26 - 28: [] Mir A & B - [] Open Your Eyes ( Dhonau Solo) - [] Breathe First A, B & C (2021).

Anderson Morning 5: [] AM5 (February 22).

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released January 16, 2012

David Dhonau - Cello line Composition and performance - Electronics.
Julian Broadhurst - Percussion line Composition and performance - Electronics and overall composition - Post production and Mastering 2012 and 2016 remaster - at Isabel.

Recorded in the Large Space at Isabel [Studio]
Cover star David Dhonau.
Cover Design by Tetlow and Broadhurst.

Drowningcircle music DCM 2012 & 2016

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