Jentoo by Julian Broadhurst

DCM 009 - Jentoo - Metal Percussion music, MPm 2 - my 9th album. The second of three volumes of my 'Metalshop Studies' - the foundational studies in my genre or Tranche - MPm. With Studies in resonance and harmonics on metal plate, Bass, Bass strings and Tubular bells.

Burree – Rh 39. Dancing piece for wood percussion. A technique I call ‘Throwing the Offbeat’ – bending the performance with a highlighted offbeat.

Sheet Steel – Rh 43. Processed ressonance form percussion on suspended steel sheet.

Helios – Rh 50. ‘As bright as the sun’ – glowing extended resonance on a bright bowl – raising the Harmonics !

Jangle – Rh 54. Harmonic Arc study for fast passed Bass Percussion.

Jentoo – Rh 55. Muted Harmonic Clouds for very fast Bass Percussion.

Strang – Rh 57. Music for Deep, Down-tuned Bass string ressonance and Harmonics.

Outside Rh 58. Thunderous Metalic Bass – my oft said ‘Metal Cello with the punch of a frieght train.’

Meka – Rh 59. Bass harmonics – timing and a standing beat.

String Between – Rh 60. Music for two fingers – retting and plotting in contory motions.

Avantar – Rh 61. Subtle strikes and strokes open an aireal attack of glissandi and impact.

At a Stroke – Rh 64. A passion with hammer blows.

Tubular 1 – Rh 65. Swinging Tube bell harmonics – raising an intermittant Melodic.

Tubular 2 – Rh 66.Sustaining ressonance for Tube Bells. Harmonics rising and falling.
Tubular 3 – Rh 67. Screaming topend harmonics with ghoastly back resonance.


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 In this Case Metal Percussion music, Percussion on anything other than drums, - percussion in General as opposed to Drums as a Specialism, by convention - MPm.

Albums 8 - 10 are the first three MP albums, placed in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf. in an in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.

The three MPm albums in the Blue Cherry Group are three Volumes of studies – my ‘Metal-Shop studies’ - MPm 1 Mode, MPm 2 Jentoo and MPm 3 Lampjack. The Metal-Shop was a workspace in my then ‘Drum studio,’ dedicated to the safe percussion of metal et al.

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, by convention - MPm.

The album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2018. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

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