a music and sound label
a music and sound labelDrey Grade Releases
1. Sineoise (10.14) Live at 'Stuck On A Name' Studios Nottingham - 14/09/09
2. Sineoise (7.48) Live at 'The New Inn' Littlehampton - 27/09/09
CD released December 2009
These are the words of the excellent net label Earth Monkey Productions -
"We are very proud to present to you our new compilation album Field Notes, featuring some exeptional sound artists from accross the globe. All the artists were asked to submit work that incorporated field recordings and we have 24 of the best for you for free download."
Drey Grade contribute the new track 'Step On It'.
Download free at www.earthmp.org. Released 18 August 2009.
Obscures Cake 1-2 , Obscures Cake 3-5, Abstract Sponge 1-4, MkUltra, The Curfew Clampdown, Cities and Villages, Zootopia 1, Six, Dreams of Escaping, Zootopia 2, Continuum.
Recorded originally in 1983-84 - this CD version August 2009
The Redoubt Bag Set is a collection of 6 CD's that includes nearly everything Drey Grade has ever recorded. Includes a collage and a nice smelling bag.
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Cassette Walkman recordings of passers by, vocal sketches, and ambient settings made during walks of the historic cobbled streets of Canterbury and nearby locations. These recordings were then treated and layered, used as vocal lines and sounds and finally merged with electronic rhythms, sequences and other found samples.
Originally released in 2004, this version has been re-mastered, re-ordered and given a new cover, for inclusion in the 6 CD Box/Bag set ‘Redoubt'.
Drey Grade began with clicking clippers and birds tweeting on a hot summer Sunday morning in the garden as a solo idea but ended up involving a multigrade of people. The core line-up usually consisted of 2 people concentrating on the sound, and 2 on the visuals. At gigs, burnt and unburnt slides and cut ups of 8mm films were back projected onto tracing paper screens or front projected onto white sheets and generally an angry noise was made - it always justs eemed to end up like that - with the song (if there was one there in the first place) usually going out the window, which seemed to annoy a lot of people most of the time. The recorded output, however, was more introspective and moody, like true serious young men and women with industrial overcoats.
Notable gigs - Supporting Strawberry Switchblade at The Escape Club in Brighton and early Zap Club events, when it was at the Richmond - more performance pieces at times than conventional gigs. Equipment used (for musos) - Electronic Dream Plant Wasp, original Fostex and Tascam 4-track tape recorders, Sequential Circuits Pro 1, Commodore 64 Ultisynth using the SID sound chip in this computer, Dr. Rhythm drum machine, Syn Drum, home built Powertran digital delay line, Boss DE200 sampling digital delay line, Roland MC202 sequencer, Roland 808 and 909 drum machines, TB303 Bass line, Casio 1000P synth, Roland Juno 6 synth, Alesis Accessit spring reverb- bladibla......
Drey Grade is now once again a solo affair - missing many friends. Sporadic recent releases in 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2007.
