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Preslav Literary School

pretext/context

About Me

Preslav Literary School makes tape music.

Live performance involves a broadcast of radiophonic sounds using dictaphones, old cassettes, an FM3 Buddha Machine, battered transistors and various other instruments/playback devices.
The tape sounds themselves come from found cassettes, old recordings, environmental sounds and pre-recorded musical experiments.

Press
"Half way music, halfway aural investigation... the approach of Preslav Literary School results in rich textures and a specific sound that makes his tracks unique and memorable." Phlow Magazine
"...a fine balance between deconstructing itself and creating an audio-environmental soundscape that is fascinating and diverting." Ampersand Etcetera
"Like Béla Bartók with a beat up boombox." fakeindielabel

Discography
GFDM002: Preslav Literary School - Autumn Bricolage (Nov 2006)
(Soundscapist compositions set in English parkland). Limited edition hand-made CD-R sold out. NOW AVAILABLE. Re-released for free-download by Clinical Archives in July 2008.
GFDM003: Preslav Literary School - Live At Tripswitches (April 2007)
(Live spoken-word and arabic classicalisms, ruptured by Casiotone) Free download available via myspace contact. Limited edition hand-made CD-R sold out.
GFDM010: Preslav Literary School - pretext/context (March 2008)
(Two extended collages of unspooling cassettes, empty hum, sounds of nature, Yamaha feedback and tuned-out pop from Resonance FM live session). Excerpts available as free download. Limited hard copy release 1st June 2008.
Distribution in mainland Europe and mailorder purchase via Maquillage et Crustaces and in UK through alt.vinyl .


Last.fm
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/25/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/glossesfurdiemasses
Band Members: Adam Thomas
Influences: others.
Sounds Like: Dictaphone, drone and overheard radio broadcast.
Record Label: Glosses fur die Masses
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Preslav plays out in August Berlin

A string of dates just waiting to be confirmed.This kind notice from Rinus (himself at the centre of all things good and tape):Valentin Stüberl Donaustrasse 112 12043 Berlin is a new place in Neu...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:27:00 PST

Phlow review

This review of Autumn Bricolage has just appeared on Phlow, a weblog about free mp3 music culture. Nice words from a magazine that seem to be doing all the right things. Go forth, digest, download.Pre...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:10:00 PST

Autumn Bricolage re-released on Clinical Archives

The 150th release on Clinical Archives will be Autumn Bricolage, the first Preslav Literary School album released on CD-R way back forever when on Glosses Fur Die Masses Records:GFDM002: Preslav Liter...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:59:00 PST

Ampersand Etcetera review

There's just been a review posted of pretext/context and my earlier works (hmmm...) at Ampersand Etcetera by a man who, frighteningly, knows a lot more about my music than I do. The site is really wor...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:33:00 PST

Surgery Radio

A nice suprise to find pretext iii from pretext/context nestling in with esteemed company on the, undoubtably, fantastic Surgery Radio 61, available for download now....
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:48:00 PST

Stealing Cara's Thunder

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TFNA4Ucizok ...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:15:00 PST

pretext/context released on GFDM Records.

GFDM010PRESLAV LITERARY SCHOOL PRETEXT/CONTEXT'pretext/context' is the third album by Preslav Literary School to be released on GFDM Records.The album contains two performances from a live session whi...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:35:00 PST

Wood For The Trees

Wood For The Trees is a track created in collaboration with film-maker and artist Ben Jeans Houghton for Locator Art Festival 2008.Wood for the Trees Ben Jeans Houghton Thursday 22 May 1pm-3pmN...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Wed, 14 May 2008 03:04:00 PST

Resonance FM session

Now available for download, 6 excerpts from two 25 minute sets. Performed improvised and live on 2 dictaphones, two cassette recorders and FM3 Buddha Machine in mima’s atrium and broadcast live ...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:41:00 PST

Preslav Literary School/ Adam Thomas

Preslav Literary School is the music of performance poet Adam Thomas. His compositions involve unmetered use of dictaphone poetry, drone and Casiotone, and often accompany his poetry readings.For Adam...
Posted by Preslav Literary School on Fri, 26 May 2006 05:33:00 PST