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Son of Clay, The Bird You Never Were

The Bird You Never Were

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Artist: Son of Clay
Label: Komplott
External Link: Komplott
4/10/04 MP3
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" Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it. " - Mark Hollis (1998)

It's been nearly two years since Komplott released the higly acclaimed debut album from Son of Clay, "Face Takes Shape" and it's with great pleasure that we now present the follow up. With "The Bird You Never Were" Andreas Bertilsson refines the fusion between acoustic sounds, field-recordings and digitally processed material introduced on the debut album. The result is a transparent and poetic work where the sound and the timing itself is everything. Behind every manoeuvre there is a decision.

In Bertilsson's musical works we find contrasts between the digital and the analogue, between nature and urban life and between chance and structure. The first track on the album is more closely linked to the debut album with its intense atmosphere, while the following tracks are more freeform and present a more elaborate use of wood- and metal sounds and processed instruments like the guitar and the clarinet. Lingering and tentative tones mixed with swift attacks of sound unite, form a structure and then deconstruct to start all over again. The seemingly simple grows into complex musical compositions full of detail, of precise and restrained intensity where silence form a balance between disturbances and tranquillity, the surreal and the ordinary.

The music of "The Bird You Never Were" is, despite its abstractedness, bare, personal and direct. The sounds create a state which forms a direct link to body and memory. Bertilsson creates a personal renewal of his musical experiences from composers such as Morton Feldman, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Mamoru Fujieda, Akemi Ishijima, Jimmy Giuffre and Talk Talk. A poetic soundscape takes shape where the sounds could be seen as separate objects, focused timbres where every movement is executed with deliberate and simple elegance.

01 - Bring Me Water Or Bread (5:33) Play Buy USD 0.95
02 - The Colour Scheme (2:59) Play Buy USD 0.95
03 - Forest On Paper (1:43) Play Buy USD 0.95
04 - Vision Thing (5:09) Play Buy USD 0.95
05 - Max Kristofer (4:34) Play Buy USD 0.95
06 - The Rook (1:40) Play Buy USD 0.95
07 - I Can't Make It Alone (5:26) Play Buy USD 0.95
08 - First Snowflakes, Then Witnter Fall (5:37) Play Buy USD 0.95
09 - So Much Love I Can Take (3:44) Play Buy USD 0.95

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