The Resonance Association

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The Resonance Association
The Resonance Association
Background information
Origin	London, UK
Genre(s)	Dark Ambient Electronica Krautrock Drone
Years active	2006 – present
Label(s)	Burning Shed, mrs.vee recordings
Website	dronezero.com
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^[1].

The band's music falls into a number of different categories including ambient, goth, noise, chill out, dark, krautrock and experimental ^[2].

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.^[3] 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"^[4]. 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"^[5]; "...starting off darkly before it hardens into a frigid cry and a long cavernous section of sonic black ice. A dangerous song."^[6]), 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"^[7]).

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

[edit] Discography

Failure Of The Grand Design (2007, Burning Shed)
The Grand Design EP (2007, Burning Shed Free Download)
Northern Coastline Soundtrack (2007, Last.fm free download)
Appendix Two (2007, Archive Free Download)
Volume Two (2006, Archive Free Download)
Appendix One (2006, Archive Free Download)
Volume One (2006, Archive Free Download)

[edit] External Links

The Resonance Association Official Website
The Resonance Association MySpace
Dominic Hemy/The 3rd Fire News Blog
Burning Shed

[edit] References