Renowned veteran musician Charles Hayward has been collaborating with London-based audio/visual duo Harmergeddon, creating driving drumming with electronics that weave through beautiful soundscapes. Their self-titled collaborative album will arrive on June 26th via God Unknown Records.

Hayward is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. He also played with Mal Dean’s Amazing Band, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project, as well as a short stint with Gong.

He was a session musician on The Raincoats’ second album, Odyshape, and on one occasion played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass. Since the late 1980s he has concentrated on solo projects and collaborations, including Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith. His first solo record, Survive the Gesture, was released in 1987. Since then, he has released 10 more long players, and has been touring with the reformed This is not This Heat.

Harmergeddon is Nathan Greywater and Polyphoniefae, a Dungeness-based performance art duo that formed in South London in the autumn of 2010.Their live show blends sound and light in a feedback loop using photophonics (sound carried on light beams), electromagnetic fields, and consumer electronic junk, taking Industrial from its scrap metal past to the electronic fallout of late capitalism with a basis in improvisation and psychedelia. The result verges on sensory overload.

Big Takeover is pleased to host the premiere of the striking instrumental single “Helix” off the upcoming LP. Disorienting sonics and a restlessly active and pushing beat relentlessly drive the song forward, as spacey and starry sounds materialize in the vivid mix.

The rhythmic beat and cymbals hits speed up and only occasionally relent, forming a malleable backbone for dark growling undertones, grinding noises, and shards of reverberating electronics to spiral outwards into space.

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