Artist : Tom White
Title : A Well-Known Phrase
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 08/08/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 04
Label : Under The Spire
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 26:25 min
Size : 35,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Nora Club 07:07
02.A Well-Known Phrase 08:36
03.Safety Poster 06:39
04.Top Floor 04:03
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26:25 min
This newest edition on the assembled-by-hand Under The Spire imprint arrives from newcomer Tom
White, whose only other release currently in circulation is a three-inch CD-r on the Smallfish label. These
four tracks clock in at a nicely proportioned twenty-six minutes, and although there's nothing presented
here that greatly expands the established idiom of microsound - expect gravelly textures, the rustling of
twigs and ambiguous droning within the first few minutes - as a tantilising blast of fresh, abstract
electronics this disc really scratches an itch. White's composition/production skills are head-turningly
impressive throughout the terrific opener 'Nora Club', which really immerses you in the digitised thicket
described above, though a slightly different, more rhythmic approach is taken on the title-track 'A Well-
Known Phrase', whose whirring loops, snaking melodics and shadowy guitar tones offer a different kind of
ambience. Drones and spacious metallic clangs plot out the skeletal 'Safety Poster', making for the most
vaporous and intangible of all the pieces on offer here, while finally 'Top Floor' sets off feedback tones and
scrambled blips that could have been plucked from a pulsar by a radio telescope. You know, or something
to that effect. A very strong, very limited (just 100 copies) release once again from this great label.
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