Artist : Greg Haines
Album : Until The Point Of Hushed Support
Year : 2010
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 217kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 47m
Size : 78.82mb
Label : Sonic Pieces
Catalognr : SONIC PIECES 006
Tracklist:
01. Industry Vs. Inferiority 4:13
02. Marc's Descent 10:45
03. In The Event Of A Sudden Loss 14:06
04. Until The Point Of Least Resistance 18:53
Releasenotes:
Until the Point of Hushed Support is the second full-length offering from Greg
Haines, born in England and now based in Berlin. Though it has been over three
years since the release of his debut, Slumber Tides (Miasmah, 2006), the last
few years have seen Haines traveling around the world and refining his craft,
performing as a solo artist, improvising with other musicians, creating music
for contemporary dance, and finally arriving at this new album, a beautifully
contemplative forty-eight minute piece for string quintet, church organ, piano,
percussion, and electronics.
For the most part, this album was recorded in the Grunewald Church in Berlin
with the assistance of friend and fellow musician, Nils Frahm. Together, Haines
and Frahm assembled a team of musicians to bring the score alive. More processed
sounds (mostly assembled at Haines' Berlin studio, The Electricity Works) were
even played back into the church and re-recorded, to truly add to the acoustic
nature of the album.
Whereas Slumber Tides played out as a gorgeous exploration of sound and
composition by a curious musician with fresh ears, Until the Point of Hushed
Support comes across as a bold statement from a unique modern composer.
Throughout the four sections of the piece, we are taken seamlessly through an
incredibly powerful dynamic range. With an assortment of sounds collected and
processed over the last two years combined with the live instrumentation, Haines
creates his own orchestra; a unique sonic world where the sound of a dying radio
is just as important as a mournful violin.
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