qd37 Brad Rose - A Life We Once Lived - out now!

quiet details
Jul 23
3 min read

Hi friends - hope all good :)

Very happy to announce that next in the quiet details series is the wildly creative and prolific multi-disciplinary artist and music writer, Brad Rose.

Out now on digital and limited CD with long-form edition, six panel digipack and fine art print. Digital half price until 1st August.

Listening Party tomorrow Thursday 24th July 19:00 UK time - hope you can join us - free and all welcome x

Responsible for a vast archive of wonderful music projects across numerous aliases, released on his own Jewel Garden and labels such as the outstanding Room40 - his work covers a huge amount of ground and is a world all to itself.

Alongside this, he’s active in the world of visual arts, installation, design, writing - and of course one of his most well-known projects, the incredible long-running platform for experimental music and art, Foxy Digitalis, an essential resource for independent journalism.

A Life We Once Lived is an album of deep meaning and atmospheric beauty - born out of the subconscious making sense of the maze of life, and in the process making something of incredible scope.

This is an album full of emotion - starting out with reflective melodics that bloom into a vast world of competitive bliss, Brad’s highly nuanced musical sensibilities take us on a trip though feelings we can all somehow relate to - his sincerity coming to the fore throughout.

Each track turns a new corner and leads you to a unique place - the highly-refined harmonic structures matched with exquisite textural expansions. This is an artist pouring their heart and soul into their art form with spellbinding effect.

Masterful use of synthesisers and an array of acoustic sound sources serve to create a world of singular and stunning abstraction.

As Brad says:

There are landscapes we never walk but still carry. Lives that linger just outside memory’s reach, shaping how we move through the world without ever fully revealing themselves.

A Life We Once Lived is an album shaped by those fragments—traces of what was almost real, or perhaps only imagined. It emerged from stillness, from the quiet textures and small details that form when thought slows and sound begins to take its place. Each piece invites a kind of soft attention. There is no resolution here, no fixed meaning. Just motion, breath, and tone, held gently enough to shift and transform.

This is a record of almosts. Almost-places. Almost-memories. Almost-love. A Life We Once Lived gathers what’s left in the gaps: the hush between pulses, the glow that never quite fades. It leads quietly toward something larger, a dream not yet spoken aloud. This is not a story, but a signal from the margins of memory—a drift through internal weather, a gesture toward something still forming.

For now, it offers a space to pause. To listen more closely. To feel what remains when everything else grows quiet.

Huge thanks to Brad - a beautiful addition to the series.

The artwork was made as always influenced by the music and idea behind the album - originating from a photo from Brad which was then captured with analogue photography and processed here at quiet details studios.

As usual, the album is presented on the physical edition, a custom six-panel digipack with a separate fine art print too.

The CD also has a special long-form continuous mix of the album, created by the artist and representing the music in its purest form.

Credits:

Music by Brad Rose

Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios

Artwork by quiet details in collaboration with Brad Rose

Design by quiet details