Artist : M Ostermeier
Title : The Rules Of Another Small World
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2011
Date : 2013-08-00
Tracks : 11
Label : Tench
Catalog : TCH04
Source : CDA
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Length : 37:07
Size : 173.63
Tracklist:
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1 Micro Forest Updraft 2:58
2 Streambed Arrangement 2:49
3 Sunlight On My Desk 2:49
4 I Took Out Your Picture 3:09
5 Floorboards, Well-Worn 3:54
6 Trickle Down 2:32
7 Fast Darters 2:52
8 Underwater Drifting 3:21
9 Retreating Night 4:01
10 Suspicions 3:15
11 Ngth 5:27
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The Rules of Another Small World is otherworldly yet strangely beautiful, much
like the desolate Taiwanese San-Zhr Pod Village gracing the album cover.
While elements of electroacoustic, modern classical, jazz, glitch, drone,
ambient, and even lounge weave in and out of the recordÆs eleven compositions,
The Rules of Another Small World is the opposite of an eclectic collection of
songs.
Instead, a cohesive album springs forth from the subtle commonalities in texture
and structure etched into every song. These commonalities derive in part from
the ôrulesö of the album title, a reference to M. Ostermeier's self-imposed
limitations adopted during the composition of these pieces.
Despite its minimalistic leanings, The Rules of Another Small World paints a
melodic, freeform world full of detail. Slow melodic fragments dance in and out
of focus, while small sounds both tinker about in the foreground and percolate
curiously in the aural architecture underneath.
The superposition of unadorned piano melodies and unpredictable sonic
microorganisms lifts the melancholic darkness M. Ostermeier explored on
Lakefront (Hibernate, 2010) revealing a tone that is more optimistic û even
playful (think Cluster, Benjamin Lew, Carpet Musics, Pawn, or Opitope).
Towards that end, most compositions are constructed in the three-minute pop-song
format, blossoming with lives lasting only long enough to explore their
environment before they metamorphoses into something new.
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