Description:	CD on Disasters By Choice
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Disasters By Choice
	Price:	£11.09
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...according to our Mingus on 10 April 2008.

Sparkle in Grey: A Quiet Place (Disaster By Choice) I've been trying really hard to get a handle on. The nearest thing I can think of by way of comparison is the collaboration CD: Lume Lume, led by Alexander Balanescu. In much the same way, this set combines lots of different forms of instrumentation and approaches to sound and music to create a free flowing entanglement of Morricone-esque soundtrack modes, jazz elements and micro-sound approaches. Overall, this collaboration, weaves in textures of contemporary electronica fused with the traditional elements of guitars and violins. In fact there's loads of violin throughout. Interpersed with some cut-up, spoken word interludes, the dynamic shifts from soundtrack style drifts to micro-textures through to motorik krautrock sounding pulses, veering occasionally to a near all-out rock assault. Reccomended if your tastes in music are eclectic.

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Tracklist:
1. Limpronta (12:38)
2. Goose Game (6:43)
3. A Quiet Place (8:13)
4. Teacher Song (3:11)
5. Pim in Delay (9:26)
6. Delusion Song (6:14)

Sparkle in Grey have been playing together since 2006, when founder member Matteo “Hue” Uggeri (who also has a solo electronic music project by the same name) was joined by poli-instrumentalist Cristiano Lupo (member of Norm), Alberto Carozzi (former member of Yakudoshi) – guitar and bass - and violin player Franz Krostopovic (of Pulp-ito).

This album (A Quiet Place) is the corner-stone of a collaboration between people who don't necessarily share similar music tastes, but who share a similar taste for human relations. The music in this record evokes a heartening place to visit and to cherish.

Sparkle in Grey do not sing, do not dance in public, do not have lyrics to hang up on teenage bedroom walls. This could be due to their passion for Kaurismaki's cigarettes, for Robert Smith's hair-style, for certain sounds in so-called experimental records that may well result from mixing mess-ups, for Piano Magic's totemic stage presence; but as much as they might not appeal to 15 – year olds they are, after all, the over-grown, boy-band version of Tuxedomoon.

Like an airplane breaking through clouds.
Autopilot on.
Hostesses showing how to wear a life jacket,
while flying above the sea.