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█ ARTIST: Maps and Diagrams █
█ TITLE: the voices of time █
█ LABEL: Handstitched* █
█ GENRE: Ambient █
█ BITRATE: 224kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 59min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2011-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-02-11 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. Your Weakness 4:02 █
█ 02. Letraset Addiction 5:14 █
█ 03. The Infinite Delay 3:43 █
█ 04. Longshore Drift 3:58 █
█ 05. The Voices Of Time 10:02 █
█ 06. From The Archaeas 3:38 █
█ 07. Shake Your Bones 3:47 █
█ 08. Odyssey Dawn Ft. Ylid 4:02 █
█ 09. Rapid Ear Movement 4:22 █
█ 10. Looks Simple Enough 2:41 █
█ 11. Three Blows To The Mind 3:06 █
█ 12. In Golden Discontent - Copy 4:53 █
█ 13. The Next Frontier 6:23 █
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█ The reputation garnered by a slew of excellent releases on labels such █
█ as Static Caravan, Fluid Audio, Smallfish, Moamoo and Symbolic █
█ Interaction has made each Maps and Diagrams release an event within █
█ itself, inspiring a mixture of anticipation and excitement. Once again, █
█ this latest album from UK based Tim Martin exceeds expectations and █
█ delivers an excursion through the artistÆs vast imagination, this time █
█ made available by Handstitched. █
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█ The Voices of Time opens with Your Weakness and Martin signals his █
█ intentions by weaving together various sound sources with meticulous █
█ care, guitar usually holding centre stage. The organic lo-fi beauty of █
█ Your Weakness and indeed, on each of the tracks which follow, bring to █
█ mind recent output from musicians such as Taylor Deupree, Marcus Fischer █
█ and Offthesky, all artists who work in an unusual and unique way with █
█ audio, but nonetheless create music which has some cohesion when taken █
█ as a whole. One feels that there should be almost another term coined to █
█ describe this genre within a genre which comprises found sounds and █
█ broken melodies to make music which is less about the destination █
█ reached and more focused on the journey taken. █
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█ On an album of innumerable highlights, title track The Voices of Time is █
█ as fine a moment as any to note as possible apex, with gentle piano █
█ notes rolling atop a shifting foundation of guitar, synth and drones, █
█ peppered with static throughout û though in truth any such track could █
█ be chosen at random with similar results, such as the gentle floating █
█ ambience of Letraset Addiction or the abstract experimentalism of Three █
█ Blows To The Mind. The Voices Of Time is an album without fault and is a █
█ joy to experience. █
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█ This is not an album to be thrown on while jogging or doing the dishes, █
█ or at least to do so would be missing the point. Rather, The Voices of █
█ Time should be enjoyed as a whole in one sitting, enabling one to lose █
█ track of time and become immersed in the sonic memories which the artist █
█ so generously shares with us here. █
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█ The Voices of Time comes packaged in case-bound CD covers, stencilled █
█ with a Japanese Plum Blossom stencil and individually hand-stamped. █
█ Release date: May 27. █
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█ - Review by Adam Williams for Fluid Radio █
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