TCH: Sinflower
- Dog Embassy (Experimental Passenger Part I)
- Substantia Nigra
- (P/G)nunu
- Redcast
- Last Known Resting Place
- Semipalatinsk (Experimental Passenger Part II)
- Spirit War
- Next...?
- Chemycal
- A Plague Diary
TCH also known as This Crepuscular Hour returns to the music not with a whimper
but with a scream. Ever since the release of the "Abutilon EP" several years
ago, I've been anxiously awaiting an innovative full length album from this
Australian duo and "Sinflower" meets or exceeds all of my expectations. As with
most Iridium/Dorobo releases, the presentation and layout of the liner jacket
and gatefold are stunning and seem to mesh with the musical theme of the album
as if they were designed in parallel. Musically the tracks on "Sinflower" range
across a wide array of empirical excursions into sound manipulation. Some
tracks revolve around a sparse central percussion beat with vocal samples,
natural ambient noise, and other odd filtered noises wandering in and out while
other tracks utilize a more straight forward approach with their
instrumentation as they slowly build their mood to a crescendo. Amazingly, the
album is a very soothing and cohesive body of work despite the radically
different approaches to composition taken throughout. "Sinflower" will
unquestionably cater to those fans who enjoy a mixture of world beat, jazz, and
avante-garde musical overtures.
TCH is:
Eryn Tooney - violin, text
Peter Breuer - machines, additional text
Contact:
Dorobo Records
P.O. Box 22
Glen Waverly, Victoria 3150
Australia
E-mail: dorobo@darkwave.com
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