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: MATTHEW FLORIANZ - The Tone T(H)Ree :
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: Genre......: Ambient · Rel. Date..: Mar-08-2005 :
| Type.......: Album | Year.......: 2004 |
│ Tracks.....: 10 │ Label......: h/s Recordings │
│ Size.......: 55,3 MB │ Catalog No.: none │
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│ 1. Three Tone - 1:58
│ 2. Part One - 5:12
│ 3. Part Two - 5:40
│ 4. Part Three - 5:35
│ 5. Part Four - 3:21
│ 6. Part Five - 8:28
│ 7. Part Six - 3:31
│ 8. Part Seven - 6:39
│ 9. Part Eight - 5:06
│ 10. The Tone T(h)ree - 6:20
| Total: 55,3 MB / 51:50 |
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NFO by Sjh / Beyond-Vision - Dedicated to ALL the girls of my life =)
Ths is Matthew Florianz's latest release on HS Recordings. A collection of his older, classic tracks which have been
re-mastered for this full length album. Without doubt one of his finest works to date, on a par with Grijsgebied which
is often chosen as his best work by his fans.
Deliberately recorded at low volumes the album is at times defeaningly quiet, which serves to draw the listener in to
it's atmospheric web. A genuinely beautiful collection of tracks which work together to form a satisfying ensemble.
True genius at work!
This is also one of the most accessible ambient albums on the HS label - those famililar with Eno's Shutov Assembly and
Apollo albums will no doubt find this album a joy to listen to. It has the perfect balance of old and new ideas - never
predictable but always graceful and delicate.
From the artist
recorded in spring of 2000
remastered in fall of 2004
all tracks by Matthew Florianz
The Tone T(h)ree is the 7th full length album I have made. It followed quickly after the release Sprook (album #6).
Sprook was finished at the end of 1999 and took several months to make.
The Tone T(h)ree was written and recorded in march of 2000 over the course of four weekends. Sprook had taken a very
long time to complete and during this period, some ideas and approaches where left unused. The common factor to these
fragments was their reliance on tone clusters. Writting extra music and compiling the available material was a quick
process. I had heard Brian Eno's Shutov Ensemble around the same time (my first exposure to his work) and with hindsight,
this has had an influence on the creation of this album.
The finished album was released in late 2000 on Mp3.com and was the first album I released online. It caught the
attention of Darren Scott of H/S Recordings who has since released all my new albums; Grijsgebied (which followed
The Tone T(h)ree) and Three.
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Matthew Florianz's seventh full length album The Tone T(h)ree was original recorded in 2000 and released on mp3.com,
then subsequently re-mastered a few years later for this H/S Recordings release. Like Three and Electronic Forest
(the latter recorded with Erik T'Sas and Joris De Man), this album employs various tone colours in a droney ambient
manner. The result is a gradually unfolding and partially beheld aural vision of tone ships moving across the
soundscape trailing various wakes in the sea of sound.
Turn the volume up when playing this album because it's been deliberately recorded at a low level, otherwise it's
a case of listening to mainly whispered sounds and you'll miss out on a lot of the detail. In fact, I think that
headphones would provide the best way to listen and catch all the wispy subtleties of the music.
Beginning the album is "three tone", the shortest track at just under two minutes it has an ominous quality as an
amorphous eerie drone comes over the sonic horizon quickly followed by visceral sounds like alien craft flying low
overheard. The longest track "part 5" starts off with a slightly industrial and clouded rumbling and vague hints of
muffled voices. Further in an organ like drone reminiscent of that on Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
starts up and is accompanied by higher pitched colouring weaving around the main drone. The overall sonic effect
has some similarity to Exuviae's piece "Silencia".
In the track "part six" there's a bit more going on. For the early part of this piece we hear alien squiggly sounds
over the top of resonating and sometimes brooding drones. As the piece progresses the squiggly aspects become subdued,
and all the sounds gradually fade away.
One needs patience to appreciate The Tone T(h)ree; the ideal listening environment has got to be a darkened quiet room.
For me this album consolidates Matthew's position as one of the best ambient artists around who utilises drone elements.
What, in my opinion, sets Matthew's music apart from that by most other ambient/drone practitioners is how he masterfully
blends tones with a nuanced grace to form haunting musical vistas. This is among the best albums I've heard so far this
year and is highly recommended.