April Awaken - Drum music, Dm 11 - my 38th album. A Very 'Outdoor' album, this and the next Dm collection, 'Underdrum Dm 12’ - which might have been 'April Awaken two' - except that I always or for the most part, name Albums after works on them.

'Very impressive' - Neil March - British Contemporary Composer. April 8th 2015.


April Awaken – Rh 170.

My Longest single movement Drum Work. .At the begging I can be heard speaking to the microphone '1st of April - 2007,' dating the recording, but as the intension of the piece was to create a waking of April, I left it in.

Clap Tap - Rh 174.

Doing something I once did alot of - stealing a moment of percussion, in an unlikely place - an empty room in a Hhospital - a few moments before someone might come in. how long had I got to frame a rhythm ? Playing my hands against the acoustics of the room. Almost punning on the phraze ‘Clap Trap.’

For the Birds - Rh 175.

Another moment stolen from a natural acoustic - this time the calls of Carsington Water's Geese on lonely bench on the shore. Like the title Clap Tap [above], which clearly begs you to say Clap trap and yet is not more than clapped and tapped, ‘For the Birds’ puns on itself as the expression of a thrown away moment - where I 'sang' for [and with] the birds.

Again and for the Birds - Rh 176.

Developed from a second piece recorded a moment or so after 'For the Birds.

Cromford Canal Side - Rh 180.

Recorded live at the Cromford Canal Side Gathering, Derbyshire 2007. We once held these gatherings all around this area, at Matlock, Lea and most often at the Bonsal Rhythm Cafe. I was accompanying my mother's Folk band,'The ‘Red Lion Band’. It was on just such an occasion, years before, that I took the stage alone - later becoming the Stage Percussionist 'Perpetuum mobile', the name under which I recorded my first two Dm Albums [see also Texts for those albums]. It is actually Cromford Canal-side 2007 – rehearsal room tape five. In 2019, working on my British Library Edition – I searched my [DCM] Archives for the the other tapes recorded at thease and other gatherings. I worked hard to create a picture of these events - live and in various rooms around the events - live creations at a hot time of Creation as the Archive Album ‘Sometime live.’ Dm Arkiv – sitting between Dm 24 and Dm 25 in the Dm Discography.

Doublebeat - Rh 184.

An Isabel Studio study litterally doubling up the beats.

Soft Study - Rh 188.

Actually is anything but soft ! Related in intension to the album 'Very Quiet music' - which it is for the most part - but not not always so !.

Tonnel - Rh 193.

Spelt Deliberately with an 'O' - It was recorded in the canal tunnel a mile or so down from Cromford Wharf, Scene of the 'Canal Side Gathering [and Rh 180 a week or so before], in early 2007. We carried Drums and Microphones down the wickedly narrow towpath a mile and so, and back to record the fabulous acoustic of the tunnel. I wish I had recorded more but but this piece really summed it it for me.

Tunnelling music - Rh 194.

A title with an implication of action, like that of an old picture of mine, 'Monogram to see round corners' - Double pun on round.. Lovely Pieces these two, beautiful acoustic.


An early reorganization of my music research interest defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Drum music – 'Percussion specifically on Drums of various kinds - as a Speciality.’
Dm by convention.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Albums number 28 to 58 form my second big publishing project or Group - the 'New Horizon' - built on the foundational 'Blue Cherry' Group - where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest, as Blocks of dedicated albums. Now in a new air I felt free to just reel them of as they came. Exploring like a man with a Time machine - where these five Genres, or Tranches, might lead me.

There are 5 Dm albums in the New Horizon Group, Dm 8 to 12. Dm 8 is 'Inventions for Tibetan Drum;' Dm 9 is the Concert piece 'Sonata for 3 Drums' which is the third piece in my Birthday Triptych. Then follow three collections of Drum studies, my ‘Isabel’ Studies, after the new ‘Isabel’ Studio - Dm 10 ‘High Abandon’ - Dm 11 ‘April Awaken’ and Dm 12 ‘Under Drum.’ Dm 12 marks a completion of a kind – and a long break from Drum music. I return to it with a 2nd and 3rd set of inventions for Djembe at album 92, at the end of my ‘Inner Blue Group.’

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.