Jeff Stonehouse

Jeff Stonehouse (the UK) has been experimenting with sound on and off since the mid 80s, originally with tape loops and shortwave radio. In the 90s he moved into psych / drone guitar music. This led to an ambient / trance / dub phase, releasing music on the Magick Eye label as Spiralhead. Jeff Stonehouse then took about 10 years to focus on a more personal way of using sound as a defence against itself.

In 2010, Stonehouse became one half of the ambient / drone project – Listening Mirror – along with Kate Tustain. The Listening Mirror project released albums and EPs on Somehow Recordings, Rural Colours, and Hibernate, before being terminated in February 2013.

He then explored different sonic landscapes. Travelling with him was Alicia Merz, who also releases intimate music as Birds of Passage. Together they inhabited and explored the dreamscape – Snoqualmie Falls – a place of dark and spectral beauty that was reflected in the music they produced together, releasing an EP (on Cooper Cult), and an album (on Twice Removed). Stonehouse has also worked with the talented Sanja Vernacki (Bewilderness).

In 2015, Jeff Stonehouse signed a deal with The Sublunar Society and released the albums On Returning and Become Becoming. The latter is a one track album, a piece written to accompany a gallery show by the American artist Jeanie Tomanek. Last year Become Becoming was released in a remix single version.