Bridget Hayden – Record 2 / Seven Beginnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, hails to Jani from Uton for helping me find this. Most of that early Bridget Hayden solo stuff sounds much more abstract and noisy than her later dirgy beauty. On the first track among all the noises, Puccini's La Boheme can be heard, while the third track is violin improv like her good old Vibracathedral Orchestra days.

 2006 self-released cdr

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Lo Imp - Nosferatu

Yet another project of Bridget Hayden, this time with Sam McLoughlin and Jake Blanchard. This is a live recording of them playing during a screening of Nosferatu in a church. The improvisation ranges from atonal doodlings to unsettling drones. 2017 tape on Was Ist Das?

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Last Night On Earth ‎– Last Night On Earth

Improvised psychedelic ritual noise not that far away from Vibracathedral Orchestra by Bridget Hayden, Melanie Delaney (Ashtray Navigations) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Pupil Wah). 2006 cdr on Ikuisuus.

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Various ‎– Mind The Gap #90

 


Varied compilation of mainly hypnagogic eletronics, but with great tracks by Bridget Hayden and Chris Abrahams. 2011 cdr on Gonzo Circus.

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Various ‎– A Short Illness From Which He Never Recovered

Final release of Blackest Ever Black, featuring an unbelievably grieving dirge by Bridget Hayden, and a menacing space/kosmische track by Brainman among others. 2019 lp.

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Bridget Hayden - Pure Touch Only From Now On, They Said So outtakes

The outtakes of an unsurpassable album. 2020 mp3 release on Bandcamp.

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Bridget Hayden - Soil And Song

 

The grimmest of all blues. 2019 tape as part of a zine dedicated to the memory of Karen Dalton by the feminist/queer Synchronise Witches Press.

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Bridget Hayden ‎– A Siren Blares In An Indifferent Ocean LP

An earlier LP to last year's excellent Pure Touch Only From Now On, They Said So, it showcases Bridget Hayden's immense ability in creating different moods within a drone/noise style. Her evil guitar noise tracks are quite similar to Lee Stokoe's Pact Of Ash project, and they sound like what it would sound like if Burzum Filosofem-era played blues (I'm sure Varg Vikernes would cringe if he read this!), while the quieter moments, in which she plays piano and violin as if in an underwater shipwreck, sound to me like African American spirituals played by ghosts. This is another amazing achievement of the North-England no-audience undeground and you must hear it. 2011 LP on (K-RAA-K)³.

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Bridget Hayden - Pure Touch Only From Now On, They Said So LP

Wow, just fucking wow. Bridget Hayden, violin player of Vibracathedral Orchestra, has created what might arguably be the best album of 2018. Employing mainly electric guitars and her mournful voice, she delivers a number of extremely lo-fi but highly evocative tracks full of sorrow and despair, making a very original form of noise blues. The most pertinent comparison would be Grouper, in that they both create a very ghost-like, dense atmosphere with spectral vocals and muffled sound, but this is more on the electric side. For some reason it also brings to my mind Burzum's Filosofem, in its very idiosyncratic low production, greenish arpeggios, and the layers of sorrowful fuzz oozing from everywhere. Don't just download this, go and buy the actual vinyl from Early Music, and then go to her bandcamp and listen to some more awesomeness.

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