Into the Ether, by Robert Bromley

Into the Ether

by Robert Bromley

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1.	Varanasi to Monterey 06:30	buy track
2.	In Our Time (For Jack Rose) 04:05	buy track
3.	Freeze Frame 05:20	buy track
4.	Sun Wheel 05:15	buy track
5.	Lament For My Maker (Little Langdale, 1970) 04:36	buy track
6.	Sultan's Blues 03:56	buy track
7.	Black Cloud Sunny Day (For John Fahey) 02:13	buy track
8.	Improvisation in C 07:02	buy track
9.	Lament For My Maker (Reprise) 05:03	buy track
10.	Into the Ether (Slater's Bridge) 06:01	buy track
11.	The Last Miners of Cathedral Cave 04:04	buy track
12.	Crossing the Rio Grande 05:44	buy track
13.	Greener Pastures 04:57	buy track
14.	When the Sun Explodes 04:35	buy track
15.	Aftermath (Paradise is a Walled Garden) 05:53	buy track

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Into the Ether—Robert Bromley's debut LP—explores the convergence of country-blues guitar methods and an array of disparate and heterogeneous influences, ranging from musique concrète to Hindustani classical music. Taking inspiration from American primitive pioneers and contemporaries such as John Fahey and Daniel Bachman, Into the Ether makes no effort to conform to reductive taxonomies; instead, it embraces hybridity and the communicative affordances of sonic resources. Into the Ether explores hybrid and evocative sound-worlds which come together to communicate personal and, at times, highly critical narratives.

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released December 9, 2022

Written and produced by Robert Bromley

Mastered by Lewis Hopkin and Andy Miles at Stardelta Audio Mastering

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Robert Bromley Sheffield, UK

Robert Bromley's music falls within the ambiguous category of American primitive guitar, popularised by John Fahey in the latter half of the twentieth century. Bromley blends country-blues fingerstyle techniques and alternate tunings with a range of disparate musical influences, exploring hybrid and evocative sound-worlds which communicate layered narratives. ... more

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