Artist : Lawrence English
Title : Kiri No Oto
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2008
Date : 01/13/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Touch
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 43:11 min
Size : 58,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Organs Lost At Sea 04:42
02.Soft Fuse 06:52
03.White Spray 05:08
04.Waves Sheer Light 05:23
05.Commentary 04:30
06.Allay 05:21
07.Figure's Lone Static 07:26
08.Oamura 03:49
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43:11 min
From Boomkat:
On hiatus from his own room40 imprint, Lawrence English also
takes leave of the disciplined microsound ventures that made
albums like 'For Varying Degrees Of Winter' so involving.
Instead, Kiri No Oto (a Japanese phrase meaning 'sound of fog')
takes both instrumental and found sounds cultivated from
English's travels around Poland, New Zealand, Australia and
Japan and submits them to filtering, harmonic distortion and
other processes that would shroud or otherwise obscure the
original signals. Consequently, the record sets out to study a
kind of auditory fog, and the richness of sound that comes
about from this misting achieves the most compelling results
when there's an essential quietness to the central sound mass
itself: 'Figure's Lone Static' serves as a good example of
this, placing emphasis on the auditory details of the blur
itself rather than the sound that gave birth to it, and it's
the peripheral elements and side-effects that are the real
subject matter of this album. Over the span of Kiri No Oto
you'll encounter the towering, borderline fuzz of 'Organs Lost
At Sea', the Popul Vuh-like tones of 'Allay', but also gentler
moments, as on the pure vapour of 'Soft Fuse', or the dazzling,
overloaded shimmer effervesced from 'Waves Sheer Light'.
Although this might initially seem entirely disconnected from
the miniaturised sound world of earlier triumphs in the
Lawrence English discography, these sound studies are no less
detailed, no less experimental, and no less beguiling. A
Massive recommendation.
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