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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Keith Berry
Title......: A Strange Feather
Rip Date...: Mar-19-2007 Cat.No.....: TH 007
Style......: Ambient Label......: Twenty Hertz
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Single
Size.......: 44,4 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
All
The craziness,
All the empty plots,
All the ghosts and fears,
All the grudges and sorrows have
Now
Passed.
I must have inhaled
A strange
Feather
That finally
Fell
Out.
"There is something absolutely enormous going on in Keith Berry's
music, though I don't know what it is. Which makes me certain that
there is something absolutely enormous going on in there.
Having debuted on CD only three years ago, and using only a small
range of software programmes on his computer, he produces a kind
of ambient music that might be called "thinking music" after the
subtitle of a Brian Eno album (one of his influences). But it
might also be characterized as "stop-thinking" music, music which
helps wipe clean your mind so that it might better deal with the
here and now.
Influenced by calligraphy, Zen and the Sufi master poets, Berry's
A Strange Feather hovers somewhere between heaven and earth,
sacred and profane, ethereal and material: Utterly beguiling
sections of floating music are often juxtaposed with short samples
of what sounds like very corporeal, organic material.
A new artist to watch whose inherent minimalism is both unique and
uniquely spacious."
www.sonomu.net
"You have been warned before: Keith Berry is an upcoming name in
the world of drone music. This new work (or if you are fast, two
works, since the first 100 copies come with a free CDR) follows
his releases on Trente Oiseaux, Authorized Version and Crouton
Music (see Vital Weekly 416, 450 and 468) and this new one will
further strengthen his position in that musical field. Also as
noted before, Berry uses field recordings and computer treatments
to create his music. Although he may arrive at similar music as
say Monos, Ora or Mirror, it differs from them, since Berry's work
exists in the digital domain unlike the others. Whereas they sound
much more analogue, Berry uses the digital techniques to arrive at
similar results. In that sense he is alike the label-owner of
Twenty Hertz, Paul Bradley, who works in a similar way. Over the
course of 'A Strange Feather', Berry occasional leaps into total
silence, with just a single sound stirring everything up again and
gliding back into this dark mass of sound, of an unidentifiable
nature. The bonus disc is a twenty minute piece, 'Turn Left A
Thousand Feet From Here' is one long piece of darkness, less
refined than 'A Strange Feather', more single minded, but setting
deeply in your brain. Not with much innovation, but with a great,
subtle impact."
Vital Weekly
"It's a mystery how we managed to miss the previous recordings
from the British ultra-minimalist Keith Berry, because if there's
any justice in the world, he should be mentioned alongside such
blue-chip drone artists as William Basinski, Thomas Koner,
Bernhard Gunter, and Akira Rabelais. Yeah, his work is that good!
He's got the sublimely romantic melodicism of Basinski, the
glacial pacing of Koner, the hushed restraint of Gunter, and, um
well, he's got a copy of Rabelais' legendary Argeiphontes Lyre
software in his repertoire. But Berry is no mere aggregate of
previously mined aesthetics, there's plenty to his work that
speaks of his own beliefs and agendas which all draw heavily from
Zen philosophies. While Berry's previous work The Golden Boat
(Trente Oiseaux, 2003) and The Ear That Was Sold To The Fish
(Crouton, 2005) were both exceptional releases (with the Crouton
album easily being the best smelling record of 2005!), each of
Berry's albums makes small adjustments that add up to an
improvement and refinement of his sound; thus A Strange Feather
stands out a remarkable achievement. Like all of the previously
cited composers, Berry's fundamental structure is the drone
supreme into which he bends field recordings, subtle instrumental
arrangements, and small tactile events. Like falling snow, his
dreamy work drifts with a poetic chill and tranquil hypnosis
through which peripheral elements tease the listener with subtle
details. It's so damn beautiful; and oh yes, the double cd version
is very limited to 100 copies."
www.aquariusrecords.org
"Over recent years, Keith Berry has quietly produced an evocative
body of glassine minimalist music that flirts along the event
horizon of audibility with releases on trente oiseaux and Crouton.
Heavily indebted to the contemplative quiet of Zen teachings,
Berry works with sound from the inside out, moulding delicate
fragments of sound into timbrally radiant swells that tumble in
and out of silence through evolving patterns and repetitions. The
thoroughly compelling A Strange Feather emerges as a snowdrift
kaleidoscope in cold greys, wet greens and luminous whites. Within
these elegant swells of wintry sound, gestural events punctuate
Berry's blurred orchestration with down-pitched tactile bristlings
and delicate electric vibrations. With the possible exception of
Thomas K÷ner and William Basinski at their very best, no one else
gets close to the overwhelming beauty and sombre tranquillity of
Keith Berry's work."
Wire
www.twoinchesofftheground.com
p l a y l i s t
01 A Strange Feather 41:40
41:40 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
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