This recording documents the first time meeting between two great double bass players, Tom Wheatley and John Edwards. Recorded at the Hundred Years Gallery on 22.02.14 as part of the ongoing Earshots concert series. ---John Edwards / double bassTom Wheatley / double bass ---Recorded by Daniel KordikMastered by Rupert Clervaux Cover image by Daniel BlumbergDesign by Earshots/DEPT2

John Edwards / double bassTom Wheatley / double bass -- Live at the Hundred Years Gallery 20.05.15Recorded by Daniel KordikMatered by Rupert Clervaux -- Drawing by Daniel BlumbergDesign by Earshots/Dept2

HEAT/WORK is the debut release from ТЕПЛОТА, the London-based duo of Grundik Kasyansky and Tom Wheatley.  Working in mutual orbit for many years, ТЕПЛОТА formed around a comparison between obsessive learning cycles in acoustic improvisation and heuristic relationships with recursive yet pliant machines. They continue to center on this point via friction, specific technologies and (mis)translation. The foundation of HEAT/WORK was recorded in late 2019 onto a mangled metal tape, live in Cafe OTO’s Project Space. It was reconstructed/reimagined by ТЕПЛОТА over the first half of 2020, as they focused on dub, redub & overdub as creative agents to play off against one another. The result is a techno of the swamp - the origin of each sound half-obscured in the sludge. Both тепло[heat] and работа[work] wind their way to 130bpm, but by different means. тепло[heat] finds the duo moving through layered meshes of strings and rhythm-grids, bolstered by intermittent glowing orbs of tone, towards a seemingly piston-powered groove. работа[work] opens to a sparser view, held together with a metamorphic yet relentless tick. Finding its tempo, ТЕПЛОТА engages in a playful interrogation of the four, before releasing it into a postscript flight. -- Grundik Kasyansky - feedback synthesizer Tom Wheatley - double bass --- Mixed byТЕПЛОТАand Gosha Hniu Mastered by Gosha Hniu Artwork byТЕПЛОТАandOliver Barrett

or a long lens where encounter runs          interfacing          just above hum-huff we find: - vert purlieu (tilt) - oblique cardioid (perspective) - reactive veils (bias) - stacks (extension/[false] mirror) an imaginary journey for double bass --- played, recorded, assembled, mixed, mastered by Tom Wheatley --- cover rendered by Oliver Barrett from a drawing by Tom Wheatley