Dronework

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Dronework
Bass Communion - Dronework.jpg
Reissue cover by Carl Glover [1]
EP by
ReleasedNovember 2004
Recorded24 August 2003
Genre
Length20:16
Label
Producer Steven Wilson
Bass Communion chronology
Vajrayana
(2004)
Dronework
(2004)
Haze Shrapnel
(2008)
CDR Edition
Dronework cdr cover.JPG
Front cover study of SW by Lasse Hoile [1]

Dronework is an EP by Bass Communion, one of Steven Wilson's side projects. It consist of single title track. The CD-R was originally available as part of the Twenty Hertz Droneworks series as Drone Works #6. It was withdrawn in December 2004 and reissued on Wilson's own label, Headphone Dust in March 2005. The album was reissued again in July 2008 as a factory pressed CD through Headphone Dust, [1] [2] on compact cassette through Coup Sur Coup Records, [3] and on vinyl through Tonefloat. [4] [5]

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Steven Wilson

No.TitleLength
1."Dronework"20:16

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United KingdomNovember 2004Twenty Hertz CD-R
United KingdomMarch 2005 Headphone Dust CDHDBCCD14
United KingdomAugust 2008 Headphone Dust CD reissueHDBCCD14x
CanadaSeptember 20, 2019Coup Sur CoupcassetteCSC-014
NetherlandsOctober 22, 2021TonefloatLPTF201

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