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<h1>Memorybell</h1>
<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GHO-web-photo-1_2000x2000-b.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-14162 " src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GHO-web-photo-1_2000x2000-b-300x300.jpg" alt="Memorybell (Photo by Peter Bo Rappmund)" width="212" height="212" /></a>Memorybell explores the emotional and environmental possibilities of ambient music, creating pieces that are simultaneously cinematic and intimate, evoking solitude and yearning, affliction and recovery. Debut album <i>Obsolete</i>, created using just a creaky grand piano and two microphones, is as concerned with exploring the spaces between notes as the notes themselves, giving each song room to breath and encouraging the ear to wander.

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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>Obsolete</h4>
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June 2016

<em>Obsolete</em> is the debut album by piano minimalist Memorybell.  Exploring the emotional and environmental possibilities of ambient music, Memorybell creates pieces that are simultaneously cinematic and intimate, evoking solitude and yearning, affliction and recovery. Recorded live in a single sitting using just a creaky grand piano and two microphones, Obsolete is as concerned with exploring the spaces between notes as the notes themselves, giving each song room to breathe and encouraging the ear to wander. The percussive qualities of the piano are almost dissolved by the air surrounding each note, leaving an aching space for the tones to resonate.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Memorybell is the ambient project of Grant Hazard Outerbridge, a multi-instrumentalist and classically trained pianist who has been playing music for nearly 30 years. From 2003 to 2008, he played bass, keys, and occasionally sang in band The Very Hush Hush. Alternately called dream-pop, electro-pop, shoegaze and indie, TVHH released two albums, <i>Mourir C’est Facile</i> (2006) and <i>Evil Milk </i>(2008), and two EPs, <i>Washing Songs </i>(2003) and <i>Sign Language </i>(2004). They toured nationally and shared the stage with bands such as Okkervil River, Stereolab, and TV on the Radio. In 2010, under the name Grant Hazard, Outerbridge self-released <i>Genus Euphony</i>, a solo effort of classical piano infused with subtle electronics.

In February 2014, Outerbridge awoke in a hospital with no memory of how he had arrived. He was diagnosed with transient global amnesia, a condition that causes the brain to temporarily stop making new memories. When he returned to the piano, Outerbridge found his previous compositions sounded garish. He pared them down to their essence and, along with new, more spacious material, constructed a set of variegated and subtle songs that explore the interplay between dissonance and silence.

Grant lives with his wife and son in Denver, CO.

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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Memorybell's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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