Rope parts I,II & III & Drowning the heart sounds.
Available to buy from Feb 2010.
“Rope parts I, II & III & Drowning the heart sounds” will be dreams of Tall buildings 1st official release from their own “MuseuM” label. Cat.no. Mus001.
Dreams Of Tall Buildings (Darren Joyce and Justin Wiggan) and Arve Henriksen have together created genuinely innovative music that’s impossible to categorise. These 2 poetic, colossal and brittle pieces create a beautifully kaleidoscopic intimate and challenging experience.
The two pieces create deceptive barren collage of moods and are equipped with all manner of bells, chattering clicks, brittle whispers and movement through cluttered rooms that share irregular heartbeats, with a haunting narrative provided by Arve Henriksen’s tonal and beguiling siren song, which calls the listener to forget the past and the future and exist only in a windless calm.
The release places itself somewhere along the lines of Toru Takemitsu’s “Eclipse” where sounds have freedom to breath and have space between the objects and the digital layering and most windswept moments of Pimmon.
Arve Henriksen has this to say about his work with Dreams of Tall Buildings.
“It is always a big challenge to add trumpet to pre-recorded material. It is a huge risk to do so because you are afraid of destroying curves and break down the form and parameters. This music Rope I,II and III came to my computer some years ago and I was attracted to it without knowing why. These musical landscapes presented to me had fascinating sounds and timbres and combinations of sounds and a presentation of form unlike much of my own recorded music. To try to find the core and to tell a story or make comments as the music goes on became like walking in these surroundings watching them for the first time and react instantly and trust the intuition. Just like walking around in a new city and looking for the peculiarities, architectural and aesthetic differences and then feel at home. Drowning the heart sounds is a piece of music I recently met in this world of changing files by using the Internet. To me this could have been the soundtrack to short film. Here I make my comments to the story. A story which has more than one direction and also contains many layers. This music hopefully opens the doors for you to imagine your story in your own imaginary world. Have a nice journey.”
Tracklisting:
- Rope parts I,II & III
- Drowning the heart sounds is heard again
Rope Illustrastion by Marmy Jo
Contact marmy.jo@virgin.net
Light From a Vacant House - available Summer 2010
Housed in a unique packaging in textural milk paper and granulated black card , the art work mirrors the themes and concepts within the music of the internal becoming the external,the micro becoming the colossal, the light becoming the dark and the white becoming the black.
The texturized rubber milk insert pulls out the to turn off the light when the listener is engaged to listen to the collection, literally vacating the format and only when the listener has finished and replaces the insert back into the grained black outer cover, does the “light” come back on making the the format alive again and occupied. This theme is representative of the content of “Light From A Vacant House” - a strong, cohesive phonic narrative of disappearance, of somatic structures fading in and out of each other like bullets bouncing off mountains. The listener engages in the time lost between entry and exit.
Tracklisting:
- Empty ships (Live)
- EtraZine
- Video Rose
- Dropixal
- Monotint
- Your application has failed
- Only latitude remains
- Science to lift (knowledge to drop)
- Lorenzo's warm (live)
- Maybe twins
- Death of a friendship