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Andreas Berthling, Tiny little white ones (like handfuls of salt)

Tiny little white ones (like handfuls of salt)

MITEK03

Artist: Andreas Berthling
Label: Mitek
External Link: Mitek
11/1/01 MP3
USD 6.95 Buy Gift Item

The title of Andreas Berthling's Tiny Little White Ones (Like Handfuls of Salt) (Mitek) is a pretty darned accurate description of the sound contained within, a high-pitched flutter and crackle like the underwater sound of sand tumbling across the seafloor. Working at the level of the bit, Sweden's Berthling scrapes together microsecond-long ticks and pings into quietly powerful shapes and rhythms. It's not all music for microscopes; the maddeningly short "Silverlake" threads its flickering pinholes with a gossamer hum, recalling Fennesz' or Pita's tenderer moments. Berthling gets extra points for knowing when to quit: none of the 11 tracks here are over four and a half minutes long, a rare demonstration of restraint. Double extra points for using track titles that don't resemble filenames (e.g. names like "Small Things Colliding" and "Silvertone" instead of, say, ".brxxygg" and "t_kkx"). And super-duper triple extra points for the oddly-but-undoubtedly-meaningfully-titled "Philip's Bumper Sticker." (If only I had a car, I'd know what he was talking about.) A fantastic release that deserves to be heard above the hum of all things micro. Philippe Sherburne, needledops [US]

01 - Life #3 (4:40) Play Buy USD 0.70
02 - Capable Of Rotating About (4:42) Play Buy USD 0.70
03 - The Shape Of The Letter V (3:51) Play Buy USD 0.70
04 - Small Things Colliding (4:14) Play Buy USD 0.70
05 - Today Nobody Knew (3:45) Play Buy USD 0.70
06 - Silvertone (2:31) Play Buy USD 0.70
07 - About The Height Of A Man's Chest (4:11) Play Buy USD 0.70
08 - There's Zero Of You (3:48) Play Buy USD 0.70
09 - Silence Illustrated (2:01) Play Buy USD 0.70
10 - Philip's Bumber-Sticker (3:41) Play Buy USD 0.70
11 - While Brent Was Out In The Kitchen (3:60) Play Buy USD 0.70

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