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artist · amon tobin
release · bloodstone ep
year · 2007
genre · electronic
label · ninja tune
catalogue · zendls190
website · www.amontobin.com
date · 23-jan-2007
quality · alt-preset standard
source · digital download
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01 bloodstone 4:12
02 esther's 3:22
03 here comes the moon man 4:20
playtime · 00h 11m 54s
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this ninja tune digital release features two tracks from amon
tobin new album - the foley room - and one exclusive (here comes
the moon man)
press release:
genius of noise manipulation and uncompromising musical auteur,
amon tobin will shortly be releasing his new album for ninja
tune, "foley room". for this new project amon and a team of
assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity
microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats
eating rats, neighbours singing in the bath to ants eating grass.
tobin then took this wealth of source material and twisted it
round into the haunting, muscular music you can hear for the
first time here.
"bloodstone" begins life as a disturbing waltz, before the
dirtiest, most foul-smelling and obnoxious vortex of a beat
stomps all over that and the whole builds to a constantly
deferred orchestral finale apparently built from tune ups. the
strings in this piece are provided by the world famous kronos
quartet, recorded in san francisco with amon.
"esthers" plays games with the surf music tradition of including
motorbike noises as surrogate basslines, though in amon's case
the surf guitar sound is filled out with an extra layer of wasps,
whereas the motorbike is given the kind of sub-frequencies that
make it sound like satan's idea of a good ride. it's worth noting
here that one of the common threads of "foley room" is what amon
describes as "the pairing of sounds that share a sonic quality
despite being otherwise unrelated".
"here comes the moon man" (not included on the album), is in some
ways the most relaxed of the three û devotional spiritual music
built from industrial remains and scrap metal. it is adapted from
part of the score to "taxedermia," an avant garde hungarian film
that tobin soundtracked whilst also working on "foley room".
a marvellous introduction to the latest stage in amon tobin's
brutal, beautiful musical development, the release of "foley
room" will be accompanied by a dvd documentary showing the full
story of how this remarkable record was made.
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