Andrew Liles

Andrew Owen Liles is a British musician and visual artist. He works in the field of experimental music .

Music and artwork

Stylistic classification

Liles is musical self-taught and plays a. a. Guitar and piano . Nevertheless, his focus is on drones and sound collages . The basis of his compositions are mostly field recordings of various everyday noises, which are combined with the sounds of conventional or self-made instruments, as well as occasionally with singing and spoken words in several languages. The usual samples from radio, film and television are largely dispensed with.

Liles takes on the design of the sound carriers almost exclusively himself. He is influenced by surrealist artists such as Hans Bellmer , which is reflected in his own work. A frequently recurring visual motif are dolls , a preference that he shares with both Bellmer and the Czech animated filmmaker Jan Švankmajer , whom he admires . Furthermore, in Liles there are always depictions in the style of the Victorian or Edwardian era , in addition to animal and plant motifs, these are above all everyday bourgeois subjects.

Career and musical collaborations

Liles has been recording continuously since the mid-1980s, with various releases on tape and a few appearances in the early years . It was not until the second half of the 90s that he made his music available to a slightly larger audience through several CD-R releases. Collaborations with representatives of the electronics avant-garde such as Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, The Hafler Trio , Bass Communion and Beequeen soon followed. It was through Potter that he met Steven Stapleton from Nurse with Wound , of which he has been a permanent member since 2005. With Tony Wakeford he ran the project The Wardrobe. Liles' most monumental work to date is the series "Vortex Vault" comprising twelve sound carriers, which has the color black in common in terms of title and design and on which guests such as Ernesto Tomasini , John Murphy and Kenji Siratori participated. His more recent work also includes a number of remix versions of earlier albums by the English band Current 93 , to whose lineup he is now part, as well as remixes for Pantaleimon , Mama Baer and Commissioner Hjuler as well as Cadaverous Condition.

Discography

Own publications

An Un World (Infraction, 2001)
Love Song (Macrophonies Org, 2002)
Miscellany (Pipkin, 2002)
All Closed Doors (Infraction, 2003)
Anal Aura Gram (Macrophonies Org, 2003)
Aural Anagram (Macrophonies Org, 2003)
Interpolations (Pipkin, 2003)
Miscellany - Deluxe (Pipkin, 2003) (14 CD-R box with older recordings)
Drone Works # 7 (Twenty Hertz, 2004)
My Long Accumulating Discontent (Nextera, 2004)
New York Doll (Infraction, 2004)
The Gazogene Machines, Seidlitz Powders, Bruising Roots & Rhizomes EP (Klanggalerie, 2004)
Vital Static (Macrophonies Org, 2004)
Four Compositions Created For An Imaginary Performance By The Legendary John Fare (Pipkin, 2005)
Mother & Son (Starfiresun, 2005)
Mother Goose's Melody Or Sonnets For The Cradle (ICR, Klanggalerie, 2005)
The Astronomical Entomologist (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2005)
Without Season (Twenty Hertz, 2005)
Eggs (Important Records, 2006)
In My Father's House Are Many Mansions (Fourth Dimension Records, 2006) (selection of earlier songs, edited by Nurse With Wound, Aranos, The Hafler Trio and others)
The Astronomical Entomologist (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2006)
The Dead Submariner (A Concerto For Bowed Guitar And Reverberation In Three Movements) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2006)
The Dying Submariner (Amalgamation, Codicil And Appendix) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2006)
Tubercular Bells (Somnambulance To Dream General) (Pipkin, 2006)
Black Paper (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2006)
Black Beauty (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black End (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Hole (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Mamba (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Market (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Out (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Panther (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Pool (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Sheep (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Widow (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Black Sea (The Vortex Vault) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
Iron Lung - Glass Bones (Twisted Knister, 2007)
Torch Songs (The City, 2007)
Auto Manipulator (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th Degree) (Lumberton Trading Company, 2008)
Burn (Not On Label, 2008)
Fini! (Dirter Promotions, 2008)
Gone Every Evening (The City, 2008)
No Birds Do Sing (with Diana Rogerson) (Dirter Promotions, 2008)
Ostinato 23 (Oral, 2008)
Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) (Dirter Promotions, 2008)
Somnambulance To Dream General (Klanggalerie, 2008)
The Progeny Of Flies (with Daniel Menche) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2008)
Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D'antan) (Vinyl On Demand, 2009)
Anal Aura Gram (ophone) (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2010)
Aviatophobia (Sound of Break Up - Sound of Impact) (Not On Label, 2010)
Monster Munch EP (Tourette, 2010)
Miraculous Mechanical Monster (Dirter Promotions, 2010)
Mind Mangled Trip Monster (Dirter Promotions, 2010)
Honey Monster (Quasi Pop, 2010)
As If Punk Rock Never Happened (Dirter Promotions, 2011)
First Aid Box (Ultra Mail Prod., 2011)
Muldjewangk, Morgawr & other Monsters (Tourette, 2011)
Schmetaling Monster of Rock (Dirter Promotions, 2011)

Remixes by other artists

Bass Communion: Ghosts On Magnetic Tape (Headphone Dust, 2003)
Nurse with Wound: Natal Moonies (track Rock'n Roll Station (Lost Bottle Mix) ) (United Jnana, 2006)
Cadaverous Condition: Destroying The Night Sky (tracks Defiled (At The Crossroads) und Degraded (Fireship) ) (Klanggalerie, 2008)
Current 93: Dawn (as Dusk ) (Durtro, Jnana Records, 2008)
Current 93: Dogs Blood Rising (as Dogs Blood Ascending ) (Durtro, Jnana Records, 2008)
Current 93: In Menstrual Night (as The End Of Red Dreams ) (Durtro, Jnana Records, 2008)
Current 93: Live At Bar Maldoror (as Dead At Bar Maldoror ) (Durtro, Jnana Records, 2008)
Current 93: Nature Unveiled (as Nature Revealed ) (Durtro, Jnana Records, 2008)
Pantaleimon: Heart Of The Sun (track All The Brids (Melting Canvas) ) (Durtro, Jnana Records, 2008)
Current 93: Faust / I Have A Special Plan For This World (as Haunt Invocation (Apadno.) ) (Dirter Promotions, 2010)
Current 93: Where the long Shadows Fall (Dirter Promotions, Pipkin, 2010)
Commissioner Hjuler and Mrs.: Commendatori / House Arrest (Psych.KG, 2013)

literature

Walter Robotka: Interview with Liles. In: Black. Volume 46, 2007, pp. 26f.

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personal data
SURNAME	Liles, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Liles, Andrew Owen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British musician and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century