overtone ensemble by overtone ensemble
Released by Important Records in the USA on June 30th 2016, this is the first, self-titled 'overtone ensemble' CD.
'overtone ensemble' create drone-based, immersive soundscapes utilising self-made instruments and bowed and activated metals and glass.
A liminal zone where acoustic instruments vibrate with eerie electronic verisimilitude and familiar instruments sound strangely alien.
Dense percussive sound fields peal and ring out from re-purposed scuba tanks and massed handbells. Tuned aluminium rods are caressed into reveries of metallic frottage. Fluttering microtonal beats tickle the cochlea and crystalline earworms writhe across stereo space. It’s an album of oscillating and unalloyed acoustic energy - a real Metallic K.O.
Sales in the US should be made from the Important Records website or local distributors to save on postage, while sales in the Southern Hemisphere suit from here.
Tracklist
| 1. | adumbration | 11:38 |
| 2. | scintillation | 7:24 |
| 3. | oscillation | 6:28 |
| 4. | accretion | 9:55 |
Credits
"vibrissa" (after feline tactile hair follicles): metal rod instruments that are longitudinally stroked by hand to produce ethereal "singing" tones
Instrumentation:
1: vibrissa
2: vibrissa, singing bowls, scuba gongs, bowed metals,wineglasses
3: hammered percussion, bowed glockenspiels
4: handbells, e-bowed acoustic guitars
'overtone ensemble' are: Tim Catlin, David Brown, Philip Brophy, Atticus Bastow
License
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David Brown aka candlesnuffer (b. 1956, Melbourne, Australia) loves toucans, mannequins, tenor guitars and guitar preparations, not to mention stomp boxes. He has developed a range of tiny sounds amplified outside their regular domain to function at rock volume. Occasionally plays a quartertone bass.