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<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-10495" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-Portrait-300x300.jpeg" alt="Antonymes" width="220" height="220" /></a><em>“sound sketches of enormous, if fragile, beauty”</em> –<strong> The Silent Ballet </strong> The music of Antonymes emerges from the adjustments and erasures of ambient and the pace and persistence of minimalism; from the serenity and austerity of Morton Feldman and the profound prettiness of Harold Budd; from the relationship between continuity and repetition; from secrecy, quietness and pause; from thought, from emptiness; from where it is set and where it is setting off to. At the same time definite and a ghostly impression, Antonymes floats free of fixed points while anxiously staying in sight of genres, movements, scenes, connections, contexts and innovations that have piled up and broken down around it. <strong><a title="Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Antonymes/108567235841143?fref=ts" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8763" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png" alt="Facebook" width="26" height="20" /></a>  <a title="Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/Antonymes" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8766" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png" alt="Twitter" width="26" height="20" /></a>  <a title="SoundCloud" href="https://soundcloud.com/antonymes" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8764" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png" alt="SoundCloud" width="26" height="20" /></a>  <a title="Website" href="http://www.antonymes.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8767" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png" alt="Website" width="26" height="20" /></a> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/antonymes/id293029227?uo=4&at=11lRii" target="itunes_store" style="display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;background:url(https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/htmlResources/assets//images/web/linkmaker/badge_itunes-sm.png) no-repeat;width:45px;height:15px;@media only screen{background-image:url(https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/htmlResources/assets//images/web/linkmaker/badge_itunes-sm.svg);}"></a></strong>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#ffffff" show_divider="off" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label="Artist Tabs"][et_pb_tab title="Discography"]
<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay</h4>
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October 2013
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In late 2009 Antonymes released Beauty Becomes the <em>Enemy of the Future</em> on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, <em>There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay</em>. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.  (Please note only the [i] tracks are available for licensing).
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<h4>Light Dispersed</h4>
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February 2012
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Originally released by Hibernate Recordings as a limited edition postcard CD. Recorded at The Lightbox, Hawarden, September 2010.
Antonymes: Guitar, piano, shells, tambourine, prepared piano, organ, frequencies.
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<h4>We Don't Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>
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October 2011
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<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.
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<h4>Like Rumours Of Hushed Thunder</h4>
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May 2011

Recorded between Christmas day and new year's eve 2011 using:

Steingraeber 130 upright piano.
Audio Technica AT4033 microphone.
Lexicon reverb.
Cheap violin.
Voice.

This album has been mastered to retain dynamics, not to enhance loudness.  To appreciate these pieces fully, please adjust your volume accordingly or use headphones.
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<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>
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May 2011
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Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow.
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<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>
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April 2011
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow. The album’s scope is immediately apparent on breathtaking opener ‘The Slow Beginnings of a ‘A Fragile Acceptance’, where faint piano notes are overwhelmed by an aching surge of cellos, and the timeless, lingering chord progression of ‘The Siren, Hopelessly Lost’. Single ‘Endlessly’ weaves traces of nature with unearthly, oscillating tones before giving way to a strident piano theme. On ‘Doubt’, Jan Van Den Broek delivers the words of Paul Morley, cradled against a bed of melancholic piano, violin and cello, leaving an indelible emotional mark. ‘A Light From The Heavens’ almost feels like a natural conclusion to the album, with its sense of reflective yearning, but it is followed by the devastating metaphysical breakdown of ‘On Arrival at the Strange Museum’, a cavernous piece that calls out like some giant magnetic spirit.
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<h4>31: Before The Light Fails</h4>
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March 2010
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<em>31: Before The Light Fails Pt.1</em> is a personal photographic diary for May 2010, a reminder of day to day activities throughout a fairly ordinary and typical month in Antonymes' life. Includes two high quality 35 page PDF booklets, part 1 with 31 black and white photographs. Part 2 with 31 colour photographs, a 4.0 surround sound file of both parts mixed together and Quicktime video.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming.

Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011.

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<h3>News</h3>
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<h2>Reviews</h2>
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<h3>Press Releases</h3>
<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf">EP </a>

<em><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf">‘Endlessly’ Single</a>

<a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf">Antonymes Signing</a>

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<h3>Artist Photos</h3>
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<h3>Music Videos</h3>
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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Antonymes' 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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