Lampjack by Julian Broadhurst

DCM 010 - Lampjack - Metal Percussion music, MPm 3 - my 10th album. The third of three volumes of my 'Metalshop Studies' - the foundational studies in my genre or Tranche - MPm. Perhaps best known for the 18 minute piece ‘Sonata for Metal Box – Rh 90’.

Chair KT – Rh 72. Wood percussion on the frame of a chair – for the life of me I don’t recall what the KT means.

Varait – Rh 74. Huge colliginous Harmony of several objects – bold as brass don’t you know.

Ella – Rh 84. Named for a lover at the time – though she was a bit creative with her real name – as I am with titles. So this is probably not the real title ? Short but resounding work for percussion Bass.

Bojangle - Rh 86. Machine gun metallics for percussion Bass - two voices play off eachother. Some lovely harmonics.

Lampjack – Rh 88. Unsettling, unnerving Metallics for Percussion Bass.

Alley Cat – Rh 89. A bit of fun perhaps – percussive embrace for Feline Bass, dripping wet with metal harmonics.

Sonata for Metal Box – Rh 90. A serious work at nearly 19 minutes. A Sonata – for me a piece to stretch both instrument and performer – to enlarge and discover performance technique. In this case to discover it – on a heavy metal box in the studio ! To demonstrate a discernible music of Metal Percussion – my project in this Genre, MPm. Rhythm, tone, Timbre and Phrasing – in Technique and Invention.

Spring 1 – Rh 91. Punishing an overhead door spring – with a saturation of harmonics like a cloud of sparks !

Spring 2 – Rh 92. Processed Spring Metallic – a perfume ! Eloquent enfolding of layered sound.

Box Cleaver – Rh 93. Clear and direct percussion solo – Hard beaters on a metal Box.

Box Solo – Rh 94. A second solo with the above.

Box Beat - Rh 114. Hand slapping an Oil Drum I ‘borrowed’ to test – the two lines push to out time eachother – playing into the delay !


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.