Information:
Artist : B Tong
Album : Hostile Environments
Genre : Ambient
Label : Greytone
Catalogue : GEY1CD013
Url : http://www.greytone.eu/
Source : CD
Encoder : FLAC1.2.1
Bitrate : 624kbps/44.1Khz
Mode : Joint-Stereo
Store.Date : 22-01-2014
Rls.Date : 11-03-2014
Tracks : 6
Playtime : 47:21 Min
Size : 219.22M
Tracklist:
1. Stasis Field 8:27
2. Processed 10:49
3. Estrus 4:55
4. Thepsis 7:33
5. Interference 9:37
6. Hemihypoplasia 6:00
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47:21
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B Tong is Chris Sigdell, former member of the German
experimental industrial group NID 1995 - 2005.
With B Tong he reaches for the nether regions of experimental
electronic sound and has established himself as an acknowledged
and known professional soundscape artist.
His music is a choice of dark, brooding layers of sound, high
pitched tones and weird electronic sounds that give birth to
images of darkness and tranquillity, the solitude of an icy
polar night or the equivalent of an underwater journey into a
bottomless pit. To create these soundscapes, he uses found
samples and self made recordings and processes these on the
computer together with recordings of his own voice and other
vocal samples. There are no traditional instruments involved. In
a live situation Chris Sigdell relies on playing metal sheets,
electric toys and various kitchen utensils. The sounds thus
generated are put through various effect pedals giving him that
trademark sound.
B Tong has played over 200 concerts all around Europe and in
Russia, Canada and the U.S.A. He has shared stages with Aun,
Batur SA nmez, Column One, Dave Phillips, Frontline Assembly,
Michael Northam, Origami Galaktika, Sudden Infant, The (Law) Rah
Collective, To Live And Shave In LA, Troum, Zbigniew Karkowski.
Sometimes B Tong collaborates with other artists, as he has done
with Alain Courtis, Batur SA nmez, Diskrepant, Origami
Galaktika, PS Stamps Back, TBC, and Tamagawa. Two new project
are Tongdisklaktika, a together with Benny Braaten (Origami
Galaktika) and Per Ahlund (Diskrepant) and Thee Secret Society
with JA rgen Eberhard (F.T.PB.P.D.), Helge Moune (1000schoen)
and Melvin Neumann (Vibrae). B Tong has also been part of
installations 'Polarkreis' and '95' by Brigitte Gierlich and
Camilla Schuler.