Phillips, Simon James / Chair
Album: Chair   Collection:General
Artist:Phillips, Simon James   Added:Dec 2013
Label:Room 40  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2013-12-12 Pull Date: 2014-02-21 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Feb 23 Feb 16 Jan 19 Jan 12 Dec 15
Airplays: 1 1 2 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 17, 2014: Meow
Set Ikon Set Remit
4. Jan 15, 2014: minimum entropy
Poul
2. Feb 12, 2014: minimum entropy
Poul
5. Jan 12, 2014: The Sunset Life
Poul
3. Jan 16, 2014: The Sunset Life
9er On Off Switch
6. Jan 09, 2014: Ranch... or Cool Ranch?
Set Ikon Set Remit

Album Review
miss information
Reviewed 2013-12-10
Simon James Phillips
Chair
Room 40

Solo piano in the Continuous Method (fast, continuous playing with sustain). Beautiful overtones that sound like woodwinds and strings in parts RIYL Lubomyr Melnyk, Antti Tolvi, Philip Glass

*1. (11:39) Repetitive, simple. Becomes a dreamy over-saturated swirl. Eventually develops resonant low end and plunges down. Long fade out -:20 dead air
*2. (5:55) Tentative, slow, gradually strengthens, seemingly strings
3. (4:53) Very sparse chords eventually develops into slowly chords. Very Harold Budd
*4. (7:42) Fast strong trilling with leisurely single tones
5. (3:58) Lonesome chords slightly discordant, non-overlapping parts
*6. (11:14) Beautiful quiet swirl. very Antti Tolvi. seeming strings pulse in and out
7. (5:55) Lyrical, expressive, sparse

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Track Listing
1. Set Ikon Set Remit   4. The Voice Imitator
2. Ellipsis   5. 9er On Off Switch
3. Posture   6. Poul
  7. Moth To Taper