Artist : Pawn
Title : A Hum Of The Library
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 04/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Cotton Goods
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 20:15 min
Size : 25,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Entrance - Stairs 02:38
02.The Book That Is Never Read 04:37
03.The Creak Of The Chair 01:16
04.Quiet Room 02:44
05.Ventilation Fans 09:00
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20:15 min
From Boomkat:
*STRICTLY LIMITED TO 100 INDIVIDUALLY
NUMBERED COPIES FOR THE WORLD* And so a
brand new Cotton Goods outing comes our
way, and this time its an EP length set
from Tokyo-based artist Hideki Umezawa
under his Pawn guise. Previously
Umezawa has released music under the
Dynamophone and Symbolic Interaction
labels and this new release makes for a
great match. Pawn's music is incredibly
tender and melodic, grounding itself in
the faintest residue of acoustic
instruments on opener 'Entrance -
Stairs'. Umezawa processes a gently
tuneful ambience from piano and room
sounds, fashioning an outstandingly
immersive and roomy production in so
doing. Second track, 'The Book That Is
Never Read' strips away much of the
electronic presence, allowing distant
piano keys to get tangled up in Danny
Norbury's cello. Norbury's guest spot
on this track proves to be a real
highlight, lending a beautifully
lugubrious lead melody. After the rainy
location recordings of 'The Creak Of The
Chair', Umezawa revisits the spatial
noises and processed piano submersion of
his opening track via 'Quiet Room',
leading up to the nine-minute finale
that makes up nearly half of the disc's
duration. 'Ventilation Fans' grounds
itself in the sonorities of the air
conditioning system referenced by the
title but manages to transform itself
from a potentially hum-drum field
recording exercise into an overtly
harmonious drone piece that duets with
faint piano reverberations and the ear-
pleasing babble of digital ephemera. As
ever with Cotton Goods releases, this
won't last long...
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