Visual artist, and musician. Adrian Lane creates instrumental neo-classical, ambient music and abstract textural mixed media paintings, many of his paintings can be found on the cover of his albums.
Dutch Review of 'Branches Never Remember' from De Subjectivisten. Translation using Google Translate...."The British multi - instrumentalist Adrian Lane ( formerly Breakneck Static ) has already released two albums full of intriguing and most beautiful hybrid of folk, neo-classical and ambient. He likes to combine East and West together. In addition, he has the power to completely overwhelm the listener with his instrumental music. On his third album , he combines these various styles, complemented by drones. He creates his music with bowed psaltery , fiddle , acoustic guitar, mandolin , harp , percussion , banjo , piano, glockenspiel , jangu and laptop , while still getting support frame drums Will Procter . It delivers 14 by the throat gripping tracks , which are very melancholic , compelling and unearthly splendor . The music falls somewhere in the autumnal cutting edge of Erik Satie , Vieo Abiungo , United Bible Studies, Olan Mill and Richard Skelton. A merciless masterpiece." "Lane has an uncommon gift for weaving melodic patterns into finessed constructions that … are typically stately and often melancholy" – Textura "… this album’s Renaissance-like aura pulled me in immediately and held my rapt attention to the final note" – Stationary Travels Read an interview with Adrian Lane by Textura. Evolving as a reaction to the recorded melody of each piece, Branches Never Remember adopts the same symbiotic process Adrian uses when painting – layering , cutting and moving parts around, until the finished result is achieved. A painter by profession, Adrian often works on music and paintings simultaneously. Employing a combination of age-old instruments (alto and baritone bowed psalteries, acoustic guitar, violin, banjo, zither, glockenspiel, piano) but constructed in a way that could only be achieved with modern technology, Branches Never Remember takes influences from early music, folk, world and contemporary classical, ambient and electronica. Branches Never Remember is the Adrian Lane’s third album for Preserved Sound. |