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- Date Released: January 1, 2006
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Ambient
- Label: Cantaloupe Music / IODA
Unexpectedly serene sonic landscapes from New York's finest avant-garde percussion troupe.
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We Say...
So Percussion has quickly built a reputation as the percussion group of choice for many of New York's finest new music composers, David Lang and Steve Reich among them. As their self-titled first album showed, So Percussion is not afraid to go the extra mile, or whatever the distance to the local Home Depot is, to get just the right sounds. (For example, Lang's "So-Called Laws of Nature," from the debut, featured wooden planks, tea cups and similar oddities.) But Amid the Noise is different — it's a suite of twelve sonic landscapes created by founding So percussionist Jason Treuting. There's terrific interplay here, but despite the title, it's not a slugfest. Instead, Noise is a series of moody, almost ambient works with a lineup that features tuned percussion, electric guitar, programming and — since this is So Percussion — duct tape, "fuzz" and an Ethernet port. “June” sets the tone with eerie bowed marimba and glitch electronics; “Work Slow Life” and “September” are full of fake bells — actually a cunning mix of crotales, glockenspiel and metal pipes. "What the Hell" adds drums and programming to produce the most conventionally pretty track on an album that's chilly, glitchy and unexpectedly serene.
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They Say...
The idea of ambient music being made by percussion instruments might seem antithetical but So Percussion manage it. Of course, Fender Rhodes electric piano features heavily in their arsenal, along with glockenspiel, synth, vibes and bowed marimba, creating the melody and atmosphere. Indeed, atmosphere is the most important ingredient here, along with a Philip Glass sense of minimalism. They've also brought in programming and a couple of guitar players, so it's perhaps not quite as pure as it might initially seem. Amid the Noise a pleasant album, and certainly an interesting experiment, but it's not groundbreaking in any musical sense. There's plenty going on, in very subtle ways, but nothing to distinguish it from many other ambient albums available.
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June |
3:45 |
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| 02. | |
White |
3:56 |
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Work Slow Life |
3:35 |
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May |
3:44 |
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September |
4:11 |
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| 06. | |
Go |
6:55 |
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What the Hell |
4:43 |
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Old |
2:29 |
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| 09. | |
Fire Escapes |
3:48 |
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July |
3:52 |
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March |
6:31 |
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February |
4:40 |
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12 Total Tracks, 52:09 Total Length
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Credits
- Kenny Savelson - Executive Producer // David Lang - Executive Producer // Julia Wolfe - Executive Producer // Frank Olinsky - Art Direction // Frank Olinsky - Design // Charles Harbutt - Mixing // Adam Sliwinski - Group Member // Steven Kadison - Mastering // Jason Treuting - Group Member // Lawson White - Programming // Lawson White - Producer // Lawson White - Engineer // Lawson White - Editing // Lawson White - Mastering // Lawson White - Mixing // Lawson White - Recording // Lawson White - Group Member
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