“Absorbing and intellectually stimulating…yet it also has moments of unbridled sublimity.”
No Transmission

Will Gardner joins Phantom Limb’s Spirituals imprint for the release of new album The Hadal Zone, occupying a liminal plane between decaying avant-noise and austere modern-classical chamber music.

The Hadal Zone is the deepest point in the ocean. A largely unexplored region 11,000 metres deep, characterised by extreme pressure and complete darkness.

Interlacing elegant orchestral timbres and harmonic grandeur with gauzy, groaning abstraction - this record depicts the fear, loneliness and ultimately the mysterious beauty of being lost within a personal Hadal Zone.

Will Gardner is a London-based composer and artist working along the thresholds of contemporary classical and experimental electronic music. His debut album Remains (2023) was a personal story about care work told through old diary texts, distorted soundscapes, and impressionist piano. He studied classical music at Cambridge University, and latterly has begun to explore his own artistic practice whilst also establishing himself as a versatile collaborator across different musical worlds. He has scored commissions for theatre, contributed to a numerous film scores as an orchestrator, and written string arrangements for artists including alt-J, Daughter, Låpsley, hmltd, and David Gilmour.