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Hamilton, Tom
Mutablemusic
General | May 2009

Reviews

Red West
Reviewed 2010-04-27
New York minimal classical with new-age jazz flavor. Pieces slowly evolve.

1. Calm-before-the-storm synth, flutes, acoustic bass, percussion etc, unfamiliar tonality. Sounds like they’re using a palette of “out there” jazz sound in a modern music discipline.
2.Awakening. Meandering clarinet and jittery cymbals over synth washes
3.Active in bursts. Melodies from previous track on flute, bassier clarinet. Interesting percussion rhythms
4.Flute plays a few high notes repeatedly, Morse-like, over gently lapping synth
5.Full band, sense of awakening similar to 2 but bassier and gets more wakeful by 2nd half.

Recent airplay

What Fell Through
Memory SelectJul 01, 2010
Brq Ten
Memory SelectMay 27, 2010
Corral
Cassetteual HealingMay 11, 2010

Charting

2010-05-02 — 2010-07-04 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 4 1
May 30 1
May 16 1

Track listing

1. Corral
2. Brq Ten
3. Counterpoint Four
4. What Fell Through
5. All The Mapping Shifted