Sonnamble
Seven Months In E Minor

	Description:	CD on Forwind
	Format:	CD
	Genre:	Drone / Kosmische
	Label:	Forwind
	Price:	£6.99
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Rating: 4
...according to our Brian on 19 March 2010.

We've had a fascinating talk about the validity of drone/dark ambient music vs. the pop props of Carey & Dion. I've decided Business Lady is the funniest woman on the planet today. She's well rodgered in the head. This CD ain't either really drone or "DA". It's a collection of what the sadly missed Mingus Rude would term "sonic events". I was hoping to see him at the Autechre show last night to ask him if we were actually attending a "gig" or a "sonic event". Unfortunately I was too drunk to keep my eyes open to spot him so I just rocked back & forth in time to the fizzing melee. There's hints here of what NZ soundscapers like Alastair Galbraith get up to in those imaginary misty forests & valleys. I'm now getting spectral tendrils of lap steel over some sort of metronomic abrasion before jittery electronics start buzzing away like a moth ricocheting off a lightbulb. That lap steel is fucking gorgeous sounding. I think this is a pretty good CD, possibly barging in somewhere between the improvised drone of Tom Carter & the cinematic abstractions of Labradford, there's plenty of understated head candy & zen-like meandering to be enjoyed here.

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What their label says...

Sonnamble is a project set up by software designer and musician Conor
Curran to explore the possibilities of improvising in real time using
real instruments and extensive digital processing. If all that sounds
a bit dry, the results are anything but.

This edition of Sonnamble consists of Curran and bassist/lap steel
guitarist Peter Marsh. The duo have been playing together for a year,
gradually refining their custom signal processing and control
software, playing techniques, and drinking a lot of tea.
Seven Months in E Minor features seven tracks, which really all are in
E minor (though in the interests of the trades description act, it
should be said that some are closer to G major). They were all
recorded live and were entirely improvised. Possible reference points
include contemporary droners and glitchers like Fennesz and
Machinefabriek, though there’s a clear line to be drawn to the
proto-ambient droning of Fripp and Eno or a legion of Krautrock
pioneers.

What marks Sonnamble out is that their music sounds most often like
two people playing the same instrument, rather than one playing while
the other processes their output. Though the sleeve credits double
bass, lap steel guitar, electric bass, guitar and synthesizer, for the
most part you’d be hard pressed to tell what instrument is being
played much of the time. Not that it matters – Sonnamble’s music
transcends its processes. It’s immersive, incredibly detailed and
often deliriously beautiful.
Put the headphones on.