Dean Hurley – Concrete Feather (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:34 minutes | 315 MB | Genre: Experimental, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sacred Bones Records
Dean Hurley is an American composer, sound designer, and music supervisor known for his collaborations with visionary director and musician David Lynch. He is responsible for building eerie, evocative soundscapes using electronics, tape loops, and field recordings. His sound design work was an integral part of the third season of Twin Peaks, and a digital collection of the material, Anthology Resource, Vol. 1, was released in 2017. Prior to his collaboration with Lynch, he worked at Hollywood-based audio post-production facility, Soundelux, before moving to Lynch’s Asymmetrical Studios in 2005. He was initially brought in to engineer recording sessions, but over time found himself experimenting with many different aspects of production. His first major collaboration with Lynch was for the 2006 movie Inland Empire; he also worked with the director on his commercial projects and produced and co-wrote four of his musical works including 2011’s Crazy Clown Time and 2013’s The Big Dream. He went on to work with artists such as Lykke Li, Chrysta Bell, Dirty Beaches, and Zola Jesus. His gained further renown years later when Lynch returned to the hugely successful Twin Peaks television series and delivered its third season, Twin Peaks: The Return, in 2017. Hurley’s involvement with the show was pivotal – he provided a number of original ambient soundscapes for various sequences. He also released an album of the material – titled Anthology Resource, Vol. 1 – via Sacred Bones in August 2017. Hurley played drums for the song “Snake Eyes” by the fictional band Trouble during a live performance scene in the fifth episode of the series. Anthology Resource, Vol. 2: Philosophy of Beyond, containing material created for the 2018 film Perfect as well as an artist residency for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, was released in 2019. – Rob Wacey
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Dean Hurley – Concrete Feather (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:56 minutes | 302 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Boomkat Editions
Lynch protégé and Twin Peaks sound designer Dean Hurley coaxes an incredible puzzlebox of atmospheres and mood pieces in a killer contribution to our Documenting Sound series, perhaps its most cinematic and neon-lit instalment thus far. It sounds like a smudged and overdubbed copy of the BoC Maxima tape, with added iridescence.
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Gloria de Oliveira & Dean Hurley – Oceans of Time (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:47 minutes | 415 MB | Genre: Art Pop, Electronic, Ethereal, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sacred Bones Records
The earth rotates, seasons change… there is but one long day… Time is a beguiling, indistinct entity… sometimes standing still, sometimes bending back upon itself in premonitory memories of the future. Growing out of a musical pen-pal style correspondence that took place over the course of a year, separated by the Atlantic Ocean, Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley passed thoughts and music back and forth that would eventually form their collaborative album Oceans of Time… all without ever meeting or speaking. The result is a sonic tapestry of that exchange: woven from conceptual threads of the celestial within, mortality and the realm beyond the stars.
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