The Resonance Association

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Resonance Association


Img_capt = The Resonance Association
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Background = group_or_band
Origin = London, UK
Genre = Dark ambient Electronica Krautrock Drone
Years_active = 2006 – present
Label = Burning Shed, [http://www.mrsvee.co.uk mrs.vee recordings]
URL = [http://www.dronezero.com dronezero.com]
Current_members = Daniel Vincent Dominic Hemy

The Resonance Association is a band formed by Daniel Vincent and Dominic Hemy in 2006 after hearing each other’s recordings on the internet [ [http://www.porcupinetreeforum.co.uk Conversations between the two musicians regarding each other's work appeared on www.porcupinetreeforum.co.uk in early 2006] ] .

The band's music falls into a number of different categories including ambient, goth, noise, chill out, dark, krautrock and experimental [ [http://www.last.fm/music/The+Resonance+Association/+tags Last.fm user tags] ] .

The duo's first release was the four-track 40-minute mini-album "Volume One". This was followed by "Appendix One", another four-track collection, this time featuring three live tracks (one from the rehearsal studio, two from the duo's October 2006 appearance at "Immersion") and a different mix of "Volume One's" opener "Fake Numbers Station".

"Volume Two" was released in December 2006, comprising of four tracks of ambient rock experimentation, found sounds and atmospheric samples. Its counterpart, "Appendix Two", features a live improvisation of what would become "Volume Two's" centrepiece "Adrift Part One", in addition to three tracks left over from the writing sessions.

In early 2007, the duo also released a suite of four songs entitled "Northern Coastline Soundtrack", inspired by a remote listening post on the Yorkshire Moors near Whitby in Northern England. [ [http://www.last.fm/music/The+Resonance+Association/Northern+Coastline+Soundtrack The cover photo of the promotional CD is of RAF Fylingdales on the Yorkshire Moors, near Whitby.] ] These four songs were released on a limited promotional CD with four other tracks - three remixes and a new song called "Forest", which would go on to become the basis for album opener "The Darkening Storm".

"Failure Of The Grand Design" is the duo’s first album to be sold in traditional CD format. Recorded over the first half of 2007 at the band’s studio in South London, the album is the band’s debut release for Burning Shed, the independent online art-rock label founded by Tim Bowness (No-Man, Centrozoon) and Peter Chilvers (A Marble Calm, Alias Grace).

The nine songs that make up Failure Of The Grand Design use guitar drones, found sounds, manipulated electronics and a "central furtive gloom that works throughout" [ [http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/774899.html?view=3519731 Mick Mercer's review, 4 December 2007] ] . Covering all of the bases sonically, from the ambience of "Magnetophon" and "The Darkening Storm" and the electronic glitchtronica of "God Is In Tiny Boxes", to the powerful guitar drones of "Three Hundred And Sixty Degree View" and the melodic guitar battering that is "I Have Seen The Future, And I Am Not In It" ("...absolutely essential listening" [ [http://www.space-rock.co.uk/index.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=345 Space Rock UK review, 19 December 2007] ] ; "...starting off darkly before it hardens into a frigid cry and a long cavernous section of sonic black ice. A dangerous song." [ [http://www.dprp.net/reviews/200773.php#resonance DPRP review, 24 December 2007] ] ), the album brings together the band’s many influences from extreme metal to acid house via krautrock, industrial, post-rock, psychedelia, drone and progressive rock ("...journeys that do seem to go somewhere, driving through intermanable chemical factories towards an unnamed destination which you discover is a verdant forest that hides a huge cathedral" [ [http://densityofsound.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/the-resonance-association-failure-of-the-grand-design/ Density Of Sound review, 11 November 2007] ] ).

The band is currently playing regular gigs in the UK, and has started working on their next recorded work, tentatively scheduled for mid-2008.

Discography

Failure Of The Grand Design (2007, [http://www.burningshed.com/store/resonanceassociation Burning Shed] )
The Grand Design EP (2007, [http://www.burningshed.com/store/resonanceassociation Burning Shed Free Download] ) Northern Coastline Soundtrack (2007, [http://www.last.fm/music/The+Resonance+Association/Northern+Coastline+Soundtrack Last.fm free download] ) Appendix Two (2007, [http://www.archive.org/details/TheResonanceAssociationAppendixTwo Archive Free Download] ) Volume Two (2006, [http://www.archive.org/details/TheResonanceAssociationVolumeTwo Archive Free Download] ) Appendix One (2006, [http://www.archive.org/details/TheResonanceAssociationAppendixOne Archive Free Download] ) Volume One (2006, [http://www.archive.org/details/TheResonanceAssociationVolumeOne Archive Free Download] )

External links

* [http://www.dronezero.com The Resonance Association Official Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/theresonanceassociation The Resonance Association MySpace]
* [http://the3rdfire.blogspot.com Dominic Hemy/The 3rd Fire News Blog]
* [http://www.burningshed.com Burning Shed]

References