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High Abandon Drum music, Dm 10 - my 32nd album and the first Volume of my Isabel Sstudio Drum Studies.

This album and its content pieces are dedicated to my Brilliant Friend - French Composer and treasure of his nation - The Great Frederick Kojevnikov AKA Frederick Martin. for his music and his humanity.

Konzertstuck for ‘Wood and Metal - Rh 158

A large scale Concert work for wood and metal percussion which properly belongs to my Metal Percussion music, MPm. It was recorded at my old 'Drum Studio', so Dm it became and changing now it would mean changing everything I’ve ever published about my music so I’ll leave things as they are.

Drum Sonatas nos. 6 & 7 – Rh 159 & 160

Sn no. 6 – Rh 159 is subtitled as such - being called ‘High Abandon. The 7th Dm Sn is subtitled ‘Silver’ being called ‘Sonata for Solo Drum no. 7 – Rh 160’ ! Confusions of identity -which is a debate in itself.

Small Drum harmonics No. 1 & 2 – Rh 186 & 187

Interestingly, they play on harmonics of resonance. To my mind there was a Small Drum Harmonics 3, one of those collections I needed to unite. I can find no mention of it in my records but I shall always feel a loss for it. Small Drum is beautiful Djembe - a Birthday gift from the fabulous Ms W, she from my Art world. Sandy the blond witch but that is a whole other story. that I Sanded the inside of that drum Glass smooth giving it the richest Timbre – hence the harmonics of the title. I’ve used it hundreds of times since. It was promanent in my rediscovery of Dm later in my Work after the long break I took – see my Dm 12 Underdrum text .

It is worth noting here that two futher pieces were prepared for the the album [Dm 10] – but took it over CD length. This is my gold standard for album length, presuming that people will write their download to CD [a bit old fashioned now but such it was and such it remains]. These two Rh numbered pieces – Deep Beat 1 & 2 – Rh 206 & 207 – two short but liveliy, live pieces from 2007 – are to be found on the Dm Arkiv album Sometime Live. I have a feeling they were recorded at the Michael House School Heanor, Derbyshire.


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.

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released July 16, 2013

Julian Broadhurst - Composition, All Instruments - recorded and mastered at Isabel.

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