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1 | The Burst | 2:55 |
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2 | Ramble North | 2:19 |
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3 | Lord, provide an assassin | 0:35 |
| 4 | His Hobbies | 3:18 | |
| 5 | Purple Justice | 0:29 | |
| 6 | Unknown Information | 1:53 | |
| 7 | Library Music | 0:38 | |
| 8 | Pistacchi di Bronte | 2:36 | |
| 9 | Faster Cars | 1:26 | |
| 10 | Reißzähne | 1:12 | |
| 11 | Rendezvous | 2:30 | |
| 12 | Neighbourhood | 1:32 | |
| 13 | Responsibility Tandoori | 2:50 | |
| 14 | Water Colours | 2:34 |
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Secluded Bronte are a multi-faceted experimental trio whose work has embraced scrapheap musique concrete, clattering post-punk, spoken word, poetry, improvisation and more. Collected from a mixture of studio and live recording, this suite of perfectly planned mischief slips and slides between the physical and metaphysical, pathos and alien-abstraction, wry humour and obscenity - relishing in awkward dualities and eccentric imbalances. Tuneful ditties emerge before switching frame to an aural car crash. Shared refrains and in-jokes from live shows are unveiled, then jump gear to a Morricone-soundtracked car-chase. Listen close, arrange the junk and unpack the mystery.
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Secluded Bronte are:
Adam Bohman - voice, home made string instruments, objects.
Jonathan Bohman - voice, piano, electronics, objects, percussion.
Richard Thomas - voice, guitars, bass, piano, synthesizers, harmonica, computer, drum machine, percussion, telephone
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with
Adrian Northover - soprano saxophone on Neighbourhood.
Daniella De Paulis - voice on Ramble North.
Recorded at Studio 35, South Wales; Harrison Sound Studios, London; All Round, Chertsey; Trade Gallery, Nottingham; Dartington Hall, Dartington; Rammel Club, Nottingham; SARC/Queen's University, Belfast; Cafe Oto, London; Westwerk, Hamburg.
Recording engineers: Shaun Crook, Craig Jackson, Ramon Flak, Kris Jakob, Helge Hasselberg, Felix Kubin, Bruce Asbestos, Hoover Nettlebeck, Richard Thomas.
Edited and Produced by Richard Thomas
Secluded Bronte - Richard Thomas, Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman - formed in London and launched in New York City in 2002. They released their first album, Secluded In Jersey City, on the Pogus label.
Secluded Bronte resist classification. They've been compared to This Heat, Wire, The Specials, John Zorn, Jean-Luc Godard, Ennio Morricone, Talk Talk, The Residents, The Fall, John Cage and Sun Ra. They sound like none of those artists. They sound a bit like some of them. But those artists sound like other artists too. Secluded Bronte have made radio dramas, performed sketches and plays and made visual art. Currently they're working on a feature film as writers, actors, producers and composers. Therefore trying to classify them is a waste of time, the only thing you can conclude is that elusivity is the aspect that best defines Secluded Bronte. But, if you really need a summary then a long time fan, the comedian Stewart Lee, has probably come up with the best appraisal so far:
“People who hate my stand-up often deny it even constitutes ‘comedy’. Doubtless many would wonder if the work of the veteran improvisatory trio Secluded Bronte should be considered ‘music’. Instruments may be involved, perhaps furniture, maybe even words, or all three in a chance collision of calculated heterogeneity.” - Stewart Lee.
