| Djll, Tom / Smudge |
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| Album: | Smudge | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Djll, Tom | Added: | Nov 2008 | |
| Label: | Soul on Rice Productions | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-02-08 | Pull Date: | 2009-04-12 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Mar 8 | Mar 1 | Feb 15 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 07, 2009: | On The Warpath Patina | 4. | Feb 28, 2009: | Lost and Found Patina | |
| 2. | Mar 07, 2009: | Scatterbrain Radio Patina | 5. | Feb 14, 2009: | Music Casserole Patina | |
| 3. | Mar 04, 2009: | The Heart of KZSU Flake | 6. | Feb 13, 2009: | Memory Select Schizy |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-02-01 | ||
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Electronics experiments, some created with trumpet as the sound source. Lots of metallic sci-fi kinds of sounds; fields of ominous pulsing; nervous high-pitched doodling. Occasional long stretches of near-silence. To relate it to painting: This isn't Jackson Pollock; it's more like a few Mark Rothkos overlaid irregularly. Smoothed sheets of sound create big, solid spaces. Cool experimental stuff from a cool local guy. 1- High shimmer, like a cicada army. Gradually descends into quiet, nearly silent spaces 2- Brusque rubber-band sounds from trumpet. Some harsh blowing sounds. Collage of louder noises near the end. 3- Grand, fuzzy blasts: Trumpet altered into a buzzy fanfare. Then some metallic noodling. Ends big and loud. 4- A noisy, bumpy ride at first. Calms down for some recognizable trumpet against a variety of tones. Ragged, abrasive ending. 5- A 15-minute suite of different sounds. A raspy, slow burn. Abrupt cut to a deep metallic pulse, then sparse stretches of modified trumpet groans. Second half gets pretty quiet. Calm ending. 6- Very, very quiet: Small whines and groans. 7- Shimmering drone with some slow doom chimes. After about four minutes, harsher, high tones suddenly take over, like a flying saucer taking off. Then more slow mystery electronics: A big palette, blobular, pulsing. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Oxide | 4. | Exfoliate | |||
| 2. | Flake | 5. | Split | |||
| 3. | Schizy | 6. | Covalents | |||
| 7. | Patina | |||||