Artist : Christopher Hipgrave
Title : Subtleties
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 08/08/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Under The Spire
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 44:48 min
Size : 56,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Subtleties 01 11:30
02.Subtleties 02 12:32
03.Subtleties 03 05:12
04.Subtleties 04 11:32
05.Subtleties 05 04:02
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44:48 min
Christopher Hipgrave's music recently came to our attention via his release on Home Normal entitled Day.
While that album evoked the sounds of artists like Oval and next generation glitch merchants like Taylor
Deupree, Christopher Willits, Sogar et al, this one is more centred on a smoother, drone-based aesthetic.
Although Subtleties is no less digital in its conception, and no doubt equally reliant on complex granular
synthesis techniques and other such chicanery, there's at least an illusion of more organic sounds at work
here. Take for example the celestial final track: it's a beautiful major-key organ soundscape that's as
referential of krautrock pioneers as it is 12K-style nano-tech noodlings. Similarly, the third piece (no titles
are to be found anywhere on the packaging) ascends to grand old proportions over its five minute span, but
the real beauty of this music makes itself apparent in the minutiae, as heard on the flickering, micro-tonal
harmonies of the second track and the energetic circuit board fizz of the first. Within the space of just a
month Hipgrave has established himself as quite a force within electronic music's more experimental,
ambient domain, and it's surely only a matter of time before he makes his first foray onto a bigger label.
http://www.chrishipgrave.co.uk
http://www.underthespire.co.uk/