Graham Haynes / Hardedge

Graham Haynes / Hardedge was a collaborative project of Graham Haynes and Hardedge. The duo recorded and released eight live albums between 2005 and 2010, exploring the inner-workings of sound and synthesis and featuring dense musical soundscapes, unrestricted freedom of movement, vibrant and rich sonic textures. The son of famous jazz drummer Roy Haynes, Graham was surrounded by jazz his whole childhood. While Haynes' main instrument is the cornet, he is mostly working with electronic processing to create subtle sonic environments. Haynes combines compelling, hypnotic horn lines, experimental post-techno rhythms, world music grooves and ambient textures in his sonic output. Sound designer Velibor Pedevski, better known under Hardedge alias, is working in the realms of live dark electronic music. His experimental approach to sound, space, and structure is inspired and based on the fundamental principles of the Chicago's A.A.C.M. creative thinkers, especially their revolutionary multi-directional, non-progressive approach, and the use of silence as a musical element. Together with Graham Haynes, Hardedge created psychedelic-like aural landscapes, made up of polyrhythms and random, transient frequencies.